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Service Fills Credit Check Void

Blue Book Services plans to offer its credit-rating serviccs to the LBM industry - filling a void left by the demisc last year of Lumbermens Credit Association and its venerable Red Book.

Blue Book has been providing credit and marketing services to the wholesale fresh produce industry since 190 l. The new LBM program will be bascd near Chicago, Il., and should be opcrational by the first half of next year via a web interface-www. lumberbluebook.com. A printed edition is also in the works.

Initial offbrings will include company contact infttrnration and pay history. along with licensed credit infbr'rnation. As participation by member cornpanies rises. thc company plans to add more details about companies' owncrship, background, and fintrnces.