DELIVERING SUCCESSFUL OUTCOMES 
FOR MORE THAN 28 YEARS

CIVITAS is Latin for community.  What kind of community? It's a first-of-its-kind industry-specific performance enhancement network. It enables select home furnishings businesses to share access to a comprehensive array of advanced marketing, operations, team development, and business intelligence resources that maximize sales while minimizing costs.

 

CIVITAS could be for your company if you:​​

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• Are the dominant independent dealer your market.

• Field a directed Sales Team delivering high levels of knowledge and service, based on TRUST. 

• Are high sales volume operations with significant marketing muscle.

• Aspire to a high-integrity culture that values the Team and is Customer-focused. 

• Seek a leading-edge online, on-air and in-store media presence. 

• Aspire to make your online and in-store shopping experiences exceptional.

• Present no competitive conflicts with other CIVITAS members.

• Have a longer-term business outlook, perhaps even generational. 

• Have a Leadership Team that is collaborative, curious and engaged.  

 

Those joining the CIVITAS community are served by The Bryant Group's dedicated Team of highly experienced professionals with decades of experience delivering advanced marketing, media, and team-development resources to independent retail operations.  The Team has a track record of serving thousands of dealers across a wide variety of product categories. However, CIVITAS is designed to be a limited community of dozens, allowing for unmatched levels of collaboration and personalization of support.

 

With our proprietary online learning platform; our instore video environment network; our consumer, employee and industry research division; our learning, communications, video production studio near Atlanta; and our experienced team of former independent retail owners and leaders; CIVITAS helps exceptional companies:

 

• Hire, develop and keep quality teams.

• Deliver credible, persuasive and impactful messaging and content.

• Provide superior consumer experiences, in-store at the last 3 feet, and during the online consumer path to purchase.

• Acquire and analyze proprietary consumer, employee and industry data.

• Access real-world best practices through collaboration with colleagues in a secure non-competitive network of companies.

• Access business intelligence via research, along with marketing media, and channel testing.

• Access leading-edge media assets, operational insights, and technology resources cost effectively.

• Empty warehouses at the right prices more efficiently.   

 

To be clear, CIVITAS is not a buying group. Those have existed for years, and we recommend that all dealers join such a group based on their needs and the group’s services.  CIVITAS is different.  We don’t invest time and resources on member recruiting, conventions, or vendor relations. Our mission since 1996 has been to help individuals and companies prosper by improving their customers' experiences.

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Our marketing strategies are media and channel agnostic and favor the options that work best for a particular dealer, with their consumers, in their market, whether digital or traditional.  Our focus is simply on helping a small group consisting of dozens of exceptional dealers do more business and do better business more cost effectively. Due to previous contractural obligations, CIVITAS will be available to new members beginning Jan 1, 2025.

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