Hardware I Housewares: '82 Home Center Show: "doing it better"

Hoffman & Associates, Los Angeles, Ca.

"Among this year's speakers are professionals from every sphere of home center management," said William Fishman, Home Center Show seminar director and columnist in The Merchant Magazine. "They will offer concrete strategies for 'doing it better' in home centers, based on their own day-to-day experiences and proven track records of successes."

The seminars will begin the afternoon following the show's opening general session at 8:15 a.m., Monday, March 15.

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a small town independent home center store, will be the theme of the 12 seminars scheduled for the 7th annual National Home Center/Home Improvement Congress & Exposition at Chicago's McCormick Place, March 14-17.

An impressive array of panelists, with backgrounds reflecting everY style and size of U.S. home center, will conduct the seminars, examining all aspects of home center retailing. Among those who will be taking part are Thomas A. Wood, pres. andgen. mgr.,Wood Brothers Lumber Co., Tucson, Az.; Candace Kilburn, director of human resources, Handyman, San Diego, Ca.; William F. Rooney, marketing communications ffigr., Louisiana-Pacific Corp., Portland, Or.; Robert R. Denning, pres., The Denning Lumber Co., Grand Junction, Co.

Others will include William Gamble, v.p,, marketing, McCulloch Corp., Los Angeles, Ca.; Donald Tripp, v.p. and gen. merchandiser, Fred Meyer, Inc., Portland, Or.; David Primuth, pres., and Paul W. Hylbert, senior v.p., Wickes Companies, [nc., San Diego, Ca.; W.T. Teachout, gen. mgr., Builders Emporium, Irvine, Ca.; Leon Hoffman, pres., Leon

Chief Reagan economist Dr. John Rutledge will present the show's keynote address at the session, an economic forecast for the home center industry.

Next, Rutledge will lead a panel discussion featuring five leading home center retailers, each of whom will offer his own forecast for the industry. Panel participants will include: Harvey Rosen, Handyman, San Diego, Ca., and E.L. Newkirk, Chandler Lumber Co., Van NuYs, Ca.

The 1982 Home Center of the Year Awards and announcement of the new Innovator Award winners also will take place during the opening general session.

BRASS ON BRASS, a round table discussion, will bring together c.e.o.s of home centers and major manufacturing companies to discuss how each views his own role in the home center marketing Process.

Co-chairmen will be Byron L. Carter, pres., MH Ventures, Inc.,

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Economist keynoter seminars geared to all size operations . top c.e.o.s par' ticipate in brass on brass.

Columbus, Oh., and Edward Hines, pres., and c.e.o., Edward Hines Lumber Co., Chicago, Il. Panelists will include Albert C. Plant, pres., Beaver Lumber Co., Ltd., Willowdale, Ontario., David Wallace, pres., Wolohan Lumber Co., Saginaw, Mi., HarrY Merlo, chairman and pres., LouisianaPacific Corp., Portland, Or., Robert Day, pres., U.S. GYPsum Co., Chicago, Il, William P. Fallin, pres., Newell Window Furnishings Co., Freeport, Il., and James C' Collins, pres., Red Devil, Inc., Union, N.J.

The show will include more than 1,200 exhibitors of home remodeling, decorating, household, and recreational products, as well as educational seminars and sPecial displays. A show "first" will be the Product Locator Service. The service provides a computerized "road map" that identifies exhibit products in categories of interest to the buyer.

The show will be preceded bY the fifth annual International Home Center Marketing Conference, Saturday, March 13, at the McCormick Inn. U.S. and foreign experts in retailing do-it-yourself products overseas will discuss new success strategies and examine current trends in U.S. home center retailing.