Wholesale contractor tools and building materials since 1976
Wholesale contractor tools and building materials since 1976
Alcli Distributors has been putting contractor grade tools and building materials on retailers’ shelves since 1976. Same family, same focus, three generations on.
In 1976 Alcli opened with a straightforward proposition. Give good retailers a wholesale supplier they can genuinely rely on, and both businesses grow together. That was the whole plan, and it turned out to be enough.
Fifty years later the third generation of the family runs the company. The catalogue has changed, the trucks have changed, and our customers’ stores have changed more than once. The proposition has not.
Alcli Distributors is founded to supply contractor quality tools to independent building supply retailers.
The family hands over day to day management, and the range grows well beyond the hand tools we started with.
Long term partnerships with quality retailers become the core of how the business works, and still are.
The same family, now supplying retailers across six product categories with the same short list of priorities.
The year we opened
Generation at the helm
Years serving retailers
Product categories
We carry the depth so you do not have to tie up your own capital in slow moving stock. You order what you need, when you need it.
Help choosing an assortment that suits your floor space, your market and the price points your customers actually expect.
One point of contact who knows your store, your order history and what you are likely to need next season.
If a tool will not survive a job site it does not go in the catalogue, however good the buy in cost looks.
Anyone can quote a price on something they do not have. Holding the stock is the harder half of the promise.
Pricing that leaves our customers a real margin. A supplier who squeezes a retailer does not keep them for fifty years.
If something is back ordered we say so, with a date. Nobody has ever thanked a supplier for a hopeful guess.
Most of what we do is unglamorous and that is rather the point. We hold depth on the lines that move, we watch reorder points so nothing quietly disappears off your shelf, and we get shipments out quickly enough that you can promise your customer a date and keep it.
We are committed to being a trusted partner to our customers and supporting their success for generations to come.
Tell us about your store and the customers you serve. If we can help your tool category earn more, we will say so. If we cannot, we will say that too.
