Security Suite - Vendor Account Group that ALL can view

I have attempted to search but don’t even know how to phrase what I am looking for so I apologize in advance and please direct me to an existing post if it exists.

SuiteCRM - 7.11.12

We already have our Security Suite groups set up to allow for each sales territory to see only the Accounts that are assigned to them. (View, edit, etc.) Managers of the sales groups can see the Accounts in the larger regions they oversee as well. So all in all we are good to go.

In an attempt to reduce the amount of double entry we have another set of Accounts that are classified as type:Vendor that we want the entire company to have view access to. I have attempted a few different ways to setup secondary groups to allow this but to this point have been unsuccessful.

I have seen older youtube video evidence that it is possible to assign Accounts to groups but can not find a way to do this in a standard user or in looking through the Admin back end of the module to allow this to happen. It looks as though through the Security Suite setup page you can have a record inherit the assigned users Group. This would imply that the groups are assigned to records but when I include a user in that group the records are not viewable. Is this not the way Security Groups work now or have I setup my groups to this point incorrectly by basing them on record ownership rather than setting the groups per record?

I am sure this is a fairly simple solution I have overlooked. Any help is appreciated.