Rexel were the worst company I have ever worked for, if I was allowed to score them 0 stars I would have, luckily for them 1 is the lowest score you can give.
This is a company stuck in the 1980’s, their branches are old and falling down, the systems crash on a weekly basis and the culture is horrific.
During my time there I witnessed bullying of colleagues, suppliers and customers! The senior management team have an inflated opinion of Rexel’s size and importance in a very competitive market and instead of focussing on attacking the opposition they spend their time witch hunting and bulling colleagues and attacking suppliers who they then claim are working in partnership with them!
For a company with a CEO who is ex DHL the supply chain and availability of products to customers is a joke, many customers have walked away over the past year because of this.
The leadership of the commercial departments idea of growing categories is to see how much more rebate they can get, the concept of growing categories through product and brand development is alien to them and frankly beyond their abilities.
The recent coming together of N&E, Wilts, WF Sentate & Parker Merchanting is billed as One Rexel, for this you can read N&E takeover. Any process now follows the N&E way, which is the best way!!! From experiences in several organisations bigger and more advanced than N&E or Rexel I can tell them that this is definitely not the case, their thinking on supply chain, category management and marketing are decades behind competitors and industry best practice.
I would urge anyone thinking or going to work for them to seriously think again, and for anyone still there to get out now.
