25 years ago...

... the Cedar was created in a little town called Paray-le-Monial, located in Burgundy, France. The founder, Eric Chevallier, was a volunteer at a faith-based entity and he was asked to manage the acquisition of a copier. Eric spent about 20 hours researching about these multi-functional devices and meeting with various suppliers. A few days later, he had dinner with some peers from another nearby faith-based establishments and discovered they had done the same on their end! The three of them together would have saved time and money - had they consolidated their research and acquired their devices from the same supplier! That's when the idea to group together in order to obtain lower pricing started. 

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Today, the Cedar is present in France, Poland, Spain and the United States with over 200 employees worldwide and 20,000 entities benefiting from negotiated pricing on a multitude of buying categories.