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Big showing for expo
AN ESTIMATED 70,000 retailers, 4l wholesalers, distributors and other industry professionals packed Chicago's McConnick Place for the National Hardware Show and concurrent National Building Products Exposition & Conference.
About 9,400 of the attendees visited the Aug. 14-17 building products show, which offered 280 exhibitors, a demonstration area for new building techniques, The Resource Center idea bank and a new product showcase.
Keynote speaker William Patterson, president, HomeBase, Fullerton,
Ca., tackled "Future Vision: Six Trends Redefining the Industry by the Year 2000."
Participants for "Getting on tle Good Side of Lumber Shortages and the 'Green' Movement" included Dr. Chet Chaffee, Scientific Certification Systems, Oakland, Ca., a third party certifier of the environmental performance of building products. The company produces Environmental Reports Cards, "the environmental equivalent of a nutrition label," that rank the environmental costs of a product and its packaging through each stage of production, distribution, use and disposal.
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Keynoted by fomrer HUD secretary Jack Kemp, the larger Aug. 15-18 hardware show featured a show floor of 3,000 exhibiors with 250,000 products; Packaging Exposition and awards program; New Products Exposition, showcasing more than 1,100 items; Retail Concepts Center, illustrating the latest trends in product deparrnental and store presentations, and Retail Services Showcase, a retailer reference center for legislation, human resourc€s and market research.
Seminars addressed environmental marketing, builders hardware, lawn and garden, and in-store service.
SMILING faces: (1) Chet Chaffee, Suzanne Pacitli, (2) Al Pevonka, Doug Honholt. (3) Dan Cotler, Steve Porler. (4) George Kobulnicky, Chadie Choi, Connie Van Malkenhorst. (5) Jack Golden, John Schieb. (6) John Lawless, Joe Meister, Doug Ward. (7)Clark Higgins, Larry Swingholm, Christina Vold, John Hichman. (8) Robert Wozniak, Mona Zinman. (9) Carol Calder, Hank Emerson, Chris Rose. (10) Sherry Wilson, Grant Hayes, Jerry Hidalgo. (11) Phil Roemmich, N. T. Russell, John Redding.
Mark Eisen, mgr.-environmental marketing, Home Depot, Atlanta, Ga., added that lumber environmentally rated on criteria such as sustained yield will be on the market in 1994.
Additionally, Lee Fisher, National Association of Home Builders' Research Center, discussed various lumber substitutes.
Other programs covered subcontracting, home automation and Total
Story at a Glance
Nice turnout for neighboring Chicago shows ".. t'lardware and Building Products expos focus on green movement.
SHOW floor: (1) Joe Taylor, Myron Boswell. (2) Bob Eddy, Rich Holmberg, Tom Teel. (3) Corky Gorcoran, Mark Vetter, Craig Liltle, Mike Kujacznski. (4) Bill Hailey, Ed Mooers, Dave Tatum. (5) Carl Stucker lll, John Koiak, Caz Francis, (6) Larry Lambert, Ron Nystrom, Gene Underwood. (7) Marshall Quina, Joe Perry. (8) Shannon & Barry Sanford. (9)
Jimmy Wise, David Wier. (10) Kevin McGauley, George Hoke. (11) Tom Rose, Sara Bills Thwing, Tom Meinecke. (12) Bill Worth, Chris Wold, Doug McLaren. (13) Dave Martin, Art Ramey, Bruce Walwic*. (14)Clift Padgett, Ron Robinson, John Conner, Richard Marks. (15) Sleve Hollingworth, Jeff Miller, Mike Jacobs. (16) Ray Bergman, Lainy Rappaporl,
Herb Perdorno, Larry Hoffman. (17) Lloyd Vande Lune, Rodney Brown, Howard Josey. (18) Lawrence & Maureen Prendiville, Wayne Knulson. (19) Rolly Skifton, (20) Joe Flemming, John Berry. (21) Janice Eager, Paul Halton. (22) Sleve Moss. (23) Richard Rose, Hank Feenslra. (24) Chuck Knox, Ed Jac*son. (25) Locator.
