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lead off with "Strategies for the 90s: Taking Aim at the Changing Retail Landscape." Carol Farmer, president, Carol Farmer Associates; Jim Kuhn, vice president, McDonald's Corp., and Dr. Martha Farnsworth Riche, senior editor of .American Demographics, will follow.

Panels led by independent, professional moderators will give leaders from the home center industry a say on topics including UPC, pricing, problems, profit and competition.

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Charles Hatfleld Sr., president and founder of Hatfield Hardware & Lumber Co., Winnsboro, La., died Nov. ll, 1988, in Monroe, La. He was 79.

A lifelong native of Winnsboro, Mr, Hatfield worked for Greenwall's Hardware, Winnsboro, for about l5 years before opening his own company in 1936.

He was a founding director of the Louisiana Building Material Dealers Association and a past president of the old Louisiana Retail Hardware Association.

Mr. Hatfield is survived by his widow, Thelma "Teddie," two sons and five grandchildren.

Beazer Sdb Kopperg Go Unlts

Managers of Koppers Co.'s tar and wood products sector have formed a company with outside investors to purchase tar processing, wood preservation and furnace and foundry coke operations from Koppers Co., Inc., an afliliate of Beazer PLC.

The sale in excess of $200 million represents the largest single divestiture of Koppers assets by Beazer.

Robert K. Wagner, v.p. and general manager of the tar and wood products sector, will be president and chief executive officer. The new company, which will be called Koppers Industries, will own 20 plants in the U.S. and have equity interests in similar businesses in Australia and Denmark.

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Scotty's ls Restructuring

Corporate restructuring at Scotty's, Winter Haven, Fl., continues to trim costs, streamline operations and improve financial performance. Sales reportedly are up.

More than 40 employees, mostly middle level management, have been let go as jobs have been eliminated, but no major layoffs are planned according to P. Scott Linder, Scotty's chariman.

"There is no concerted layoff situation," he said. "We're just changing some of the ways we're doing

Bruce W. Anthony, retired owner of Anthony Forest Products Co., ElDorado. Ar., diedJan. l, 1989, in Hot Springs, Ar. He was 72.

Born in Hopeville, Ar., Mr. Anthony was the first president of Anthony Forest Products, helping to merge a number of companies into the firm's current divisions located throughout Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. He retired in 1972.

He had served as president of the Southern Forest Products Association and the Arkansas Wood Products Association, and on the board of directors of the National Forest Products Association.

Mr. Anthony is survived by his widow, Modean, one son, one daughter, four brothers, two sisters, six grandchildren, and one greatgrandchild.

Caureway Top Fl. Wood Flm

Causeway Lumber Co., Fort Lauderdale, Fl., has been rated the largest wood component company in the state and the l6th biggest in the country, according lo .4utomated Builder.

Causeway provides construction industry suppliers with wood components to make doors, wall panels and roof trusses. The firm predicts 1989 sales of nearly $50 million, up from $43 million in 1988.

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(('otttittucd lrom page 29) business. It is a restructuring of some phases of our business and the changes are just incidental to new management."

Koppers Building has been signed. As part of the sale, they will stay in Pittsburgh for at least l0 years.

Senior managers include Earl A. Clendaniel. executive vice president; John C. Youts, vice president, chief financial oflicer; Raymond S. Ohlis Jr., vice president and manager; Donald N. Sweet Jr., vice president and general manager, coke and by-product operations; James' R. Batchelder, vice president and manager, environmental and technical; Joseph E. Boan, vice president, human resources; Donald E. Davis, treasurer, and Randall D. Collins, secretary.

Beazer has also conditionally agreed to the sale by Koppers Co., Inc. of the Wolman division to Hickson International PLC. Sales price will be $67.5 million in cash.

Prt Bryrn hasjoined the brokerage div. staffof Stringfellow Lumber Co., Birmingham, Al., in special products distribution, according to pres. Don Flsher. New in hardwood sales: M lke Gurley and Jeff Smith, in softwood sales: Jay Johnston and Wil Johnston.

Herdus Coffey Arrington III, Lowe's, Rock Hill. S.C.. married Jaime Elizabeth Tippins Dec. 14, 1988.

Peter C. Browning has been named exec. v.p. ol Gold Bond Building Products, Charlotte, N.C., according to Mace T. Coleman, div. pres.

The hew management team has been in charge since last September when the Belgium-based GIB GrouP completed a $28 million stock buyout of former Scotty's chairman James W. Sweet. When both Sweet and president Dennis Stults retired, Daryl L. Lansdale, an industry veteran, became president with Robert L. Swanson, former Lowe's executive, named executive vice president of marketing.