Using one number, the NZBN, for certainty

CENTRIX

Quickly and easily identify your customers or suppliers using the NZBN, and be certain of who you’re doing business with.

In business, it’s important to know exactly who you’re working with. That’s why Centrix is now using the New Zealand Business Number (NZBN) to quickly and easily identify other businesses.

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A man is shown walking towards a building and then through a door into an office. A Centrix logo is featured on a glass wall. A man is then shown sitting in his office and his name appears on the screen, Mark Rowley, Operations Director, Centrix.

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Mark: My name's Mark and I’m the Operations Director for Centrix. We're a credit bureau, and our clients use us to assess risk for companies they wish to do business with. We get data from hundreds of different sources and our job is to put it all together, and give them back something that they can use to assess risk.

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Mark is shown walking through the Centrix office and then sitting down at his desk and typing on his computer.

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Mark: Prior to the NZBN being available, we got data from many different sources and it can be difficult to match. An example could be — we get data on Joe's Boat Yard or J. Smith Boat Yard, and it's pretty difficult for us to establish whether that's the same entity or not. But with the NZBN, it's one number, one business.

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Mark is shown looking up a business on the NBZN Register.

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A woman is shown sitting in the Centrix office and her name appears on the screen - Monkia Lacey, GM Sales and Marketing, Centrix.

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Monika: As a business, you may on occasion need to apply for credit, and if you do it's a good idea to have an NZBN. This means that we're able to link information more accurately on your business because we have one unique identifier that's associated to your company, and this in turn enables your credit providers to make a more informed lending decision.

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Monika and Mark walk into a meeting room and sit down and look over some documents together.

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Mark: Looking to the future, we'll use the NZBN right throughout our organisation. We'll use it in our billing and finance functions it'll make us so much more efficient. We think it's going to transform our business.

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The screen fades to read ‘Find out how the NZBN can become an asset for your business’ and then shows the NZBN logo (more business, less work) and the NZBN website – nzbn.govt.nz.

Centrix Operations Director Mark Rowley explains, “Prior to the NZBN being available, we’d get data from many different sources and it could be difficult to match. An example could be we’d get data from Jo’s Boatyard and J Smith Boatyard, and it was pretty difficult for us to establish whether that’s the same entity or not.”

“But with the NZBN, it’s one number, one business.”

Centrix is a New Zealand-owned credit bureau that helps clients minimise risk and make smart credit decisions. Using the NZBN, Centrix and its clients can be sure everyone is on the same page, talking about the same organisation.

Having one unique way to identify businesses across sectors and industries saves time, and takes the guesswork out of doing business. That’s why the Centrix team are using the NZBN across their business systems.

“Looking to the future we’ll use the NZBN right throughout our organisation. We’ll use it in our billing and finance functions, and it’ll make us so much more efficient. We think it’s going to transform our business.”

To get started, search for your business on the NZBN Register. If your business doesn’t have an NZBN, get one here.

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Published: 27 March 2018