Dealers Welcome Tindell As Ghairman

Carl Tindell, president and owner of Tindell's Inc., Knoxville, Oak Ridge and LaFollette, Tn., was installed as chairman of the National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association during the group's 80th annual convention.

He succeeds Roger Scherer, Scherer Brothers Lumber Co., Minneapolis, Mn.

Coincidentally, Tindell's company won NLBMDA's 1996 Award for Excellence in Human Resources.

Also installed were chairman elect Larry McFadden, Fairfax Lumber,

Fairfax, Ca.; vice chairman Jesse Brand, Brands, Inc., Columbus, In., and treasurer Robert McClure, McClure Lumber Co., Charlotte, N.C.

The association convened Sept. 2628 in Tucson, Az.

Retail Parent Gonsolidates

To further its aggressive expansion plans, Carolina Holdings, Raleigh, N.C., parent of 34-unit Carolina Builders, is consolidating operations.

The operating structures of its Carolina Builders and Erb Lumber divisions have been folded into