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The ‘eco-friendly’ narrative has changed forever for corporations, architects, main contractors and specifiers – along with manufacturers, suppliers and distributors servicing the built environment.
Fortune 500 global corporations made commitments at COP28 and other forums to resource, build, manage and ultimately dispose of buildings sustainably. This is a paradigm shift with far reaching consequences. It means that architects are seeking out market leaders in sustainable solutions – and as a distributor, you can fill that void…with our help.
‘Eco-friendly’ has morphed from a search term to an economic driver for real estate investment, development, construction and shared workspaces.
This is a time of huge opportunity. That’s why we’re creating The Eco Friendly Tiles International Network – a collaborative alliance of forward-thinking distributors benefiting from exclusive use of our brand with access to innovative and eco-certified tile, façade and surfaces solutions.
As a member, you’ll become instantly relevant as a touchstone for sustainable solutions, leveraging our branded EPDs to create a stand-out marketing proposition. Don’t miss out.
Our Network partners share a common purpose to create value for our professional connections through an innovative and sustainable tile, façade and surfaces offer.
Eco Friendly is more than a brand. It’s a movement founded on knowledge, training, collaboration and a great eco-certified product range that contributes to an energy efficient, resource responsible environment. We’re building a community aligned with progressive architectural practices who understand that a sustainable construction eco-system is inextricably linked to their future success.
No other Network brings all these skills, competences, products, branding, resources and accreditations together in such a compelling proposition for a future-proofed tile, facade and surfaces business opportunity.
Eco Friendly is today’s new default.
Our Network community benefits from proven eco friendly credentials with the potential to generate opportunities to partner with architects, specifiers, main contractors and corporations.
As corporates and their supply chains seek out sustainable materials for their projects, our global referral network becomes ever-more relevant. As an Eco Friendly Tiles brand partner, you can achieve trusted adviser status on eco specifications, opening up new commercial opportunities.
Each network member enjoys exclusive Eco Friendly Tiles brand rights to sell into designated territories.
You will benefit from integrating Eco Friendly Tiles branded web pages and EPD certified product ranges within your existing website, creating an instantaneous sustainable tile and façade offer. Our comprehensive knowledge bank of marcoms assets and sales tools, including global case studies, will augment your own brand and widen your marketing appeal.
Commercially, the Network creates a buffer between manufacturers and architects / specifiers to safeguard distributor relationships. Our established credentials will help open conversations with architects, specifiers and corporates searching for EPD certified products.
In short, we’re creating a movement of like-minded distributors who not only share our eco friendly values but recognise a great business opportunity when they see one.
Our Eco Friendly Tiles EPD’s are loaded onto EPD search platforms and enquiries come straight to you.
In the tile, façade and surfaces eco system, we’re at the forefront of a revolution. We choose only to work with a select group of tile and slab manufacturers who invest in verifiable sustainable production methods.
We’re a magnet for innovation, whether that’s the use of hydrogen kilns, exploring carbon capture tiles or pioneering world first technologies. As a result, we’ve curated a unique portfolio of tile ranges, façade systems and surfaces that benefit from certified low embodied carbon and the proven eco credentials prized by architects and specifiers.
Our façade backing structure is warrantied for 40 years and offers a pathway into a huge untapped market. We give you the knowledge and tools needed to speak with authority to architects. It’s an opportunity multiplier. Imagine empowering your sales team with façade ‘know how’ and the limitless opportunity it opens to your clients.
Our Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) are aligned to BIM, with data for lifecycle analysis and global warming potential. Many of our tile ranges are ultra-thin, yet ultra-strong. Our environmental impact assessments embrace manufacturing, composition and recyclability.
All this adds up to a unique, great looking, robust, verifiably sustainable eco-friendly product line-up available exclusively to our network partners and their customers. It’s an offer perfectly aligned with mandated corporate values.
The Eco Friendly Tiles International Network is a unique opportunity to enhance your existing business by gaining access to a world-leading and sustainable tile, façade and surfaces eco-system and brand. Members are supported via an exclusive, secure member portal bristling with resources.
Our business proposition gives you a USP…it creates your WHY. Having a strong WHY makes your brand relevant and relatable to corporates whose values align with the Eco Friendly Tiles network ethos. Check out this video to understand how ‘WHY’ empowers a brands success.
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If you’re an established distributor working within the tile, façade and surfaces eco-system and would like to find out more about the benefits of joining our Network opportunities, please register your interest and complete the form below.
As the commercial world seems to become increasingly competitive and regulatory we see a natural progression to succeed in business today is to become a specialist, it’s a great way to “own” marketing territory. As our domain name “Eco Friendly Tiles” is also a generic search term you’ll directly benefit from being part of the networks global pull. You’ll benefit from exclusive brand and territorial rights using the Eco Friendly Tiles name and identity – the world’s first and foremost sustainable tile, surfaces and facades brand. Why is this important? Because we know, for example, that Fortune 500 companies have committed to implementing sustainable built environment practices – and this includes mandating their architects and their wider supply chain to procure and use only verifiable eco-friendly products. So, as a member of the Eco Friendly Tiles International Network, you’ll be perfectly aligned to help architects deliver on the ESG promises of their corporate clients and, as a result, be on the leading edge of the market curve. Through you, built environment professionals will gain access to great tile, surfaces and façade solutions, many of which are included in an Environmental Product Declaration library available exclusively to members within their unique territory. This means any such enquiries go directly to Network members.
There is absolutely no revenue split or commission payable to the Network by members. You simply pay an annual membership fee – the rest is up to you as long as you abide by the ethical practices governing network membership. The Network owners have no direct involvement in any member business. However, we aim to facilitate and foster knowledge sharing across the network for all members’ mutual benefit and also to encourage collaboration on cross-national projects. This is made possible through assigning exclusivity in terms of territories and means you should never be competing on projects with other members. Our vision is for a collaborative global community of distributors who share a common passion for a sustainable built environment.
We’re seeking long term partners who recognise that eco friendly is a cultural shift, not a fad. Our multi-year membership package offers the security that comes from territorial exclusivity, brand rights and comprehensive sales, training and knowledge support. We all know being Eco Friendly will be even more important in the future than it is today. Being a member of the Eco Friendly Tiles specialist network is a statement of your core values as a company – the very same values that corporates and architects are seeking to align themselves with.
Your membership provides a comprehensive resource of sales aids, branding assets and guides, marketing communications support, blogs, presentations and much, much more. Example: The initial upfront cost to develop, engineer and market facades for testing and consultancy is extremely expensive and takes years of knowledge and experience. All before you can even consider selling a façade system. These high upfront costs, plus complexity, often inhibit businesses pursuing this sales avenue. Whereas, our network membership offers you access to testing – and we train you on how to sell facades, providing a cost-effective fast track to a new market opportunity. This isn’t just theoretical. Our backing structure, engineering and Eco Friendly panels have been used to complete Marriot hotels, stadia, office blocks and shopping malls!
You’ll also gain exclusive rights to use the Eco Friendly Tiles brand across all your marketing channels, including templated web pages and social posts, benefit from popular industry organic search terms, and be in prime position to leverage referrals via the network community. We’ll even provide façade engineering calculations for your projects – which can be very costly – as s part of your membership package. Plus much more besides!
Environmental Product Declarations – or EPDs – are internationally recognised as proving the eco credentials of products, due to the robust and exhaustive nature of the approval process. The value of EPDs increases every year because every aspect of a product’s production and performance is taken into account before an EPD is granted – a process that is both lengthy and costly. Network members benefit from Eco Friendly Tiles EPDs being placed in their territory’s EPD library, so architects will be able compare the environmental performance of different products objectively and will be directed exclusively to Eco Friendly Tiles Network members. This is particularly important in the context of green building certifications, such as LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) and BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method), where the use of products with EPDs can contribute to achieving higher building certification levels which, in turn, will make real estate more marketable and future proofed in terms of investment.