Strategy

ERIKS supplies approximately 100,000 industrial customers ('business to business'), markets a range of more than 600,000 articles, purchases worldwide from more than 1,000 qualified suppliers and manufacturers and sends out more than 3 million shipments every year.

The base of this success is our own developed and successful twin business model in which two markets are served separately by two different sales organisations. On the one hand, specialised ERIKS companies called Core Competence Centres directly serve the original equipment construction market (OEM), and the large maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) customers, with a great deal of know-how and the support of application engineers. On the other hand, a network of local branches, called Service Centres, supported by a central MRO organisation, is set up to focus on further growth in local markets and on small and medium MRO customers in the Netherlands and Europe.

Over the next few years, ERIKS aims to further expand its market area, with the main focus on Germany and Central Europe. The idea is to create a joined market area of sufficient size in which ERIKS is able to offer its customers and manufacturers a full package of industrial products and services.