SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION

Carolinas-Tennessee Building Material Association will stress supplier, dealer, association relationships with the theme "Discover Our Partnership: 500 Years of Building America" at a Jan. l7-18 Building Products Buying Show.

Association activities will center at the Radisson Plaza Hotel, Charlotte, with the show located at the Charlotte Convention Center. Brent Taylor will present two seminars. "Results Drive Sales for the Building Material Industry" will aim at the sales manager, inside and outside salesperson, general manger and owner. "Sales TrekThe Next Generation" will be tailored to young management.

Jim Enter, past CTBMA president and retired Pelican Building Centers manager, will lead a purchasing workshop on "The ABC's of Building Material Inventory Management." This is especially for purchasing agents, managers and owners.

Other activities will include executive committee and board meetings, an exhibitors reception, president's cocktail reception, membership dinner and presentation of exhibitor awards.

Florida Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association's new board will hold its first meeting Dec. l2 at headquarters in Orlando.

Oklahoma Lumbermen's Associationts convention committee is making major changes to Spring Mart '92, March 20-21, including cutting the buying show to one day.

The new agenda offers a Saturday only show with Friday dedicated to OLA organizational meetings and exhibitor move-in at the exhibit hall. Friday evening is open for exhibitors' hospitality suites. The All Industry Reception is Saturday evening.

The traditional convention breakfast Saturday moming will end with the exhibit hall opening at the State Fairgrounds. Drawings for cash prizes will be conducted hourly. Four of the eight drawings are designated as district drawings ro ensure that a dealer from each district wins a prize. Exhibits close at 5 p.m.

Oklahoma City will be the Spring Mart site as in the past with convention activities at the Oklahoma City Marriott and the buying show at the State Fairgrounds. The AII Industry Reception begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom at the hotel. Grand prize drawings for $2000 and $1000 cash will be held during the evening.

Arkansas and Oklahoma members of Mid-America Lumbermens Association will join in a "Plant-A-Tree" campaign approved by the board.

Scheduled to kick-off Jan. l, the program is unnamed at present. Association members have been asked to submit names with a $100 prize offered.

Tree plantings will take place Arbor Day Weekend, Apil 24-26, with participating dealers giving trees to customers. A variety of species suitable for the MLA area will be available from MLA. Ad slicks, ad drop-ins and timber promotional material also will be available.

MLA members are asked to get civic groups involved in tree planting projects.

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