Leading Edge Group
Leading Edge Group is an Australian-owned consumer electronics buying group with retail shopfronts. It began in 1986 as Electronic Enterprises and has continued to evolve and adapt over the four successive decades with a few enduring, underlying principles at the core of all decisioning.
The empowers and supports small businesses to thrive and survive.
Supplier relationships are built on foundation and mutual respect. Suppliers receive the benefits of a single point of contact and a single payment point for consolidated invoicing. They access a broad base of regional and remote small business without incurring the hard costs in time and money associated with physical visits and a rep force.
Retail relationships that matter are built on understanding and engineering commercial advantage. The power of the collective allows the historic underdogs to compete, to access products they wouldn't ordinarily be able to. And to flourish. The team of dedicated category leaders inspire and delight across a range of diverse industries such as technology, Entertainment, Books and Jewellery. They see the future that others miss. And they prepare retailers for it.
' is a logical extension of the core proposition behind the Leading Edge Group. It is a B2B proposition built to support business accessing goods and services to support their operations and to add to efficiencies and ultimately bottom-line profitability. An in-house procurement team is no longer necessary when businesses can access their needs for Audio Visual and IT ' via the vast Leading Edge network of suppliers. Supporting this endeavour is a suite of that continue to evolve and become increasingly important in the fast-moving digital environment. Hardware is increasingly linked to software and the mechanisms to support the installation and ongoing management and maintenance of networks of connected devices. Building adaptability and resilience is essential. But so is connectivity and connection. Leading Edge Group understands the problems and collaborates with clients to offer solutions to them that best suit their needs and budgets.
History
In 1997, a range of buying groups consolidated under the brand name of the Leading Edge Group, making it one of the largest retail entities in Australia. Leading Edge Group is a global organisation operating in two major sectors; buying group management and sales channel management across Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.In December 2023, Leading Edge Retail promoted Charlie Davey to CEO of its Australian operation following the resignation of Lee Scott.