President`s Voice

  

From the President, Mr. Bernhard Berrang:
 

Dear Visitor,
Dear Fellow Professional,

Thank you for your interest in the European Fastener Distribution Association. Founded in September 2000, the EFDA today acts as the umbrella association for 5 national European fastener-distribution organisations: Adisfi-Spain, BAFD-Great Britain, FDS-Germany, Prisme-France and UDIB-Italy. Our members are 170 stock-keeping, innovative and top performing distributors with sales of approx. € 3.2 Billion and affiliates in numerous countries of the world.

While the reality of a common European market and its free flow of goods, information, people and capital across borders, opens up so many opportunities, it also poses some threats to our members. Therefore, the EFDA, as a common European platform, is best suited to promote the common interests of the national organisations.

Over the past decade, the fastener distribution industry has undergone a dynamic development, based on its core competencies: closeness to the customer and guaranteed availability of a broad variety of products as well as its universally accepted high quality. Today, the associate members have demonstrated that they can take the role as an integrated logistic partner for their customers, sourcing worldwide for the best fitting product.

In this role, the member companies are successfully supporting their customers to achieve rationalization effects, to reduce in process costs and hereby enhance the competitiveness of their products.

The fast progress of the European approach brings with it wishes for protection on a national scale and creates an excess of rules and regulations which may be contrary to the basic idea of free entrepreneurship enabling Europe to become part of a global market with fair trade. EFDA is the European platform to contribute to the implementation of these rules to the best interest of its members.

If you have any further questions, you are welcome to directly contact the national associations we have listed in the menu under “Member Associations”, or you may contact the EFDA secretary or me by e-mail.

Thank you again for your interest in the EFDA.

Kind regards

Bernhard Berrang
President