LCCC Announce New Business Deal

LCCC Announce New Business Deal COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP winners Lancashire are confident a new cost-saving deal will deliver big business benefits as the Club drives ahead with a redevelopment programme for Old Trafford.

England’s reigning County cricket champions today announced a three-year contract with Altrincham-based Optimum Procurement, designed to underpin the Club’s commercial activities as they embark on the most significant phase of the £43million upgrade to the famous ground.

The agreement – the first of its kind in English cricket – sees Lancashire working closely with Optimum, relying on their procurement expertise to reduce costs, improve sourcing efficiency and update the underlying internal processes.

Welcoming the ground-breaking deal, Lee Morgan, Finance and Operations Director of Lancashire CCC said: “This is a very significant partnership for Lancashire at a momentous period in the Club’s commercial development.

“By investing in new infrastructure to help secure the future prosperity of the Club we are bucking the trend in a very challenging economic climate. Optimum will help us ensure that we get the very best value and service from our suppliers and this is a crucial deliverable as we transform Old Trafford into a premier cricketing venue fit to host an Ashes Test in 2013.”

Over the initial three year period, LCCC are expecting that savings and efficiencies will total a very significant sum. Mike Jones, Group Managing Director of Optimum, believes the deal represents a blueprint for others to follow.

He said: “As one of the UK’s leading procurement service providers and specialists in our field, we are delighted to be teaming up with the best team in English cricket, but it’s especially pleasing as we’re a North-West based company supporting Lancashire CCC.

“We’re starting at the top of the Championship but we believe we have a business template that could benefit every County side and that has to be good news for the game as a whole.”

Optimum already has other prestigious sporting clients, including Premier League leaders Manchester City – reputed to be the world’s richest football club, and MotoGP star Bradley Smith.

Mike added: “It doesn’t matter if it’s cricket, football, sport in general or the business world – there are big savings to be had and major efficiency gains to be made by outsourcing an organisation’s buying requirements to specialists like ourselves.”

(Left to Right - Lee Morgan, LCCC Finance and Operations Director, Glen Chapple LCCC Captain and Mike Jones Group Managing Director, Optimum Procurement)