Big showing for expo

A N ESTIMATED 70,000 retailers, 4l wholesalers. distributors and other industry professionals packed Chicago's McCormick Place for the National Hardware Show and concurrent National Building Products Exposition & Conferencp.

About 9,400 of the attendees visited the Aug. 14-17 building products show, which offered 280 exhibiors, a demonstration area for new building techniques, The Resource Center idea bank and a new product showcase.

Keynote speaker William Patterson, pres., HomeBase, Fullerton, Ca., tackled "Future Vision: Six Trends Redefining the Industry by the Year 2000."

Participants for "Getting on the Good Side of Lumber Shortages and

Story at a Glance

Nice turnout for neighboring Chicago shows ... Hardware and Building Products expos focus on green movement.

the Green Movement" included Dr. Chet Chaffee, Scientific Certification Systems, Oakland, Ca., a third party certifier of the environmental performance of building products. The firm makes Environmental Reports Cards, "the environmental equivalent of a nutrition label," that rank 0te environmental costs of a product and its packaging through each stage of production, distribution, use and disposal.

Mark Eisen, mgr.-environmental marketing, Home Depot, Atlanta, Ga., added tiat 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 Quality Management.

Keynoted by former HUD secretary Jack Kemp, the larger Aug. 15-18 hardware show featured a show floor of 3,000 exhibitors with 250,000 products; Packaging Exposition and awards program; New Products Exposition, showcasing over 1,100 items; Retail Concepts Center, illustrating the latest trends in product, departmental and store preSentations, and Retail Services Showcase, a re- tailer reference center for legislation, human resources and market research. Seminars addressed environmental marketing, builders hardware, lawn and garden, and in-store service.

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