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R0CKY M0UllTAll{ dealers and vendors at the Mountain States Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association's buying show at the Denver Merchandise Mart, Denver, Co. lll Dave Joseph, Rich Heimsot. l2l Ed Peed, Steve and Janet Manes. l3l Lowell Caylor, Gary Woodward. l4l Larry Powell, Rick Larcon lll Mike Grrelz.loe Kerschen. 161 nlcnaid'Parrott, Bruce Knudson. l7l Galen Reed (seated center) and customers. (81 Jim Warnke. l9l Jim Bakarich. Almost 600 attended the March 9-10 show.

PlyGem Buys DoorAltfindow Go.

Ply Gem Industries has bought for $55 million SNE Enterprises, Wausau, Wi., one of the five largest wood window and door manufacturers in the nation.

With eight manufacturing facilities and six distribution centers in l0 states, SNE produces Crestline and Vetter wood windows and patio doors, Kenergy skylights, AWC wood shutters and bifold doors, and DuoTemp vinyl windows and doors.

SNE will operate as a whollyowned Ply Gem subsidiary under its existing management. SNE's sales have grown 200/o each year since 1984, reaching $130 million in 1988.

Bob Carlson, western regional sales mgr., Weyerhaeuser Co., Tacoma, Wa., hasbeen elected pres. of the National Wood Window & Door Association.

Chris Hoddevik is now traffic mgr. of Northwest Wood Specialties, Portland, Or.

Jack Hulbert, All-Coast Forest Products, Cloverdale, Ca., and his wife, Denise, are the proud new parents of l2 lb. Krista Marie. All-Coast's Jeff Howard, and his wife, Jan, and sons Chris, Andy, and Jake had a weeklong vacation in Nevada City, Ca. Bob Carlson recently competed in the Healdsburg, Ca., FitchMountain lOK Run, completingthe course in 64 minutes.

Ralph Singer, DiamondW Supply, Los Angeles, Ca., moderated a seminar at the National Wood Flooring Association's recent annual convention. Jeff Hamar, Galleher Hardwoods, Santa Fe Springs, Ca., was a speaker.

Bob Denman is new to sales at Rancho Hardwoods, Rancho California, Ca.. according to pres. Jack Havens.

Tom Crabtree, SCR, Inc., Lake Oswego, Or., took a recent business/pleasure trip through Arizona and Nevada.

Tom Barnum has been promoted to national sales mgr. at Deft, Inc., Irvine, Ca.

Curtis Shoup has been named pres. of Jensen Industries, Los Angeles, Ca. Gary Bailey is now v.p. of mktg. & sales, andDavid Torres, human resources mgr.

Jim Rodden has retired as pres. ofMonarch Building Supply, Honolulu, Hi., the firm he founded in 1972. Jack Brandt isnowv.p.of the four Maui stores, and Jerry Mcleod, v.p. of the Oahu and two Big Island of Hawaii units.

Jim Hunter, Schmidbauer, Lumber Co., is back in Eureka, Ca.,after a Mexico vacation.

Edwin M. Savage has resigned as pres. of the western div. of Lanoga Corp., Olympia, Wa.

John Fahs, California Panel & Veneer, Los Angeles, Ca., is recovering from a recent back operation.

Bill and Randy Lentes, Dellen Wood Products, Spokane, Wa., have returned from Long Beach, Ca., where Randy participated in a jet ski competition.

Tim Petersen has been promoted to sales mgr. of Weyerhaeuser's customer service center in Cerritos. Ca.. according to Art Olsen, gen. mgr. Butch Pope, Weber Plywood, Tustin, Ca.,took a recent business/pleasure trip to Arizona. Mike Agnello is new to the Weber sales force.

Keith A. Sternal has been named western regional sales mgr. for Roto Frank of America. Michael T. Pugh is a new sales rep.

Sterling Wolfe, Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Co., and his wife, Loraine, have been in England for three weeks, staying some of the time at the famed Cliveden, the historic former estate ofthe Astor family.

Harl D. Crockett, a retired So. Ca. lumberman, and his wife, Florence, have returned from a month's trip around the world.

JohnTurner, Cal State Forest Products, Anaheim, Ca., and his family enjoyed a recent Utah ski vacation.

Bob Ebert is now trading in the West for the building specialties dept., Central Builders Supplies Co. Cheryl Bolles has joined as director of communications, and Curtis Roberts is now marketing representative, according to pres. Bret Pobanz.

Chris Wray is a new green dimension trader at Arthur A. Pozzi Co., Portland, Or.

George Wood is new to the trading staff of Cascade Forest Corp., Shelton, Wa.

Mike Allen has joined the sales force at Universal Forest Products, opening a redwood buying & sales office in Fortuna, Ca.

Diane Bentley, accounts payable, Lumbermen's, Redmond, Wa., was recently selected her store's Employee of the Quarter.

Cecil Cleveland, pres., Valley Best-Way Building Supply, Spokane, Wa., has been named pres. of the Eastern Washington Subcontractors & Suppliers Association. Ron Holmquist Sr., Door Distributors of Spokane, is pres. -elect.

Arnold Curtis, Northwest Hardwoods, Portland. Or.. has been elected a director of the Hardwood Manufacturers Association. James H. Lee has resigned as HMA chairman.

Wally Spoerlein is heading up the consumer products sales team at Stanley Hardware's newly acquired Acme General Corp., San Dimas, Ca. Other reps: Jim Stevens, architectural products, and Steve Curren, residential products.

Rick Frieders has been named contractor counter sales mgr. at Ganahl Lumber Co., Anaheim, Ca. Jimmy Burns replaces him in sales.

Art Cruz, operations mgr., Ganahl Lumber, Garden Grove, Ca., and his wife, Gina, are the proud parents of 7 lb. 9 oz. Zachary Gilbert, born March28, 1989.

Tom Lindquist is now in sales for Ensworth Forest Products at their Blue Lake, Ca., office, according to Jerry Ensworth.

Frank S. Fiorentino has been appointed director of marketing for Monarch Mirror Door Co., Chatsworth, Ca.

Tom Metzger is new to sales at Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Co., Grand Terrace, Ca.

J. Michael Wallace is now v.p. and gen. mgr. of TreeSource, Portland, Or., succeeding Craig Fletcher, who has resigned.

Ed Fountain Sr., pres., Ed Fountain Lumber Co., Los Angeles, Ca., recently celebrated his 86th birthday. He and his wife, Vivian, spent three weeks touring New York, Washington, D.C., and Canada, according to gen. mgr. Frank Bader.

Todd Burt is a new lumber salesman at Product Sales Co., Orange, Ca., according to Ted Gilbert.

Helen Peterman, Peterman Lumber, Inc., Fontana, Ca., is recuperating from surgery and is expected to rejoin the firm in June.

Rick Williams hasbeen named sales mgr. for TreeSource, Portland, Or. T. C. Black is now marketing mgr Michael O'Malley Remodeling Building Centers, Inc., Phoenix, Az. Joanna Ragussa is a design consultant.

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Joe Bushman won Salesman of the Quarter honors for the lst quarter of 1989 at Sequoia Supply, Fairfield, Ca. Greg Kneppel won for the last quarter of 1988, according to Bob Riggs.

Dave Kaney is the new gen. mgr. of, Simpson Timber's redwood operations, Arcata, Ca., succeeding Hank Sandstrom.

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CBS's New Sales Thrust

Its new aggressive operating style has Central Builders Supplies Co. predicting sales to triple in the near future.

The buying group is for the first time actively seeking out new members, hiring a marketing representative to find new recruits and adding a staff of telemarketers to solicit orders from members.

"ln the past, we were strictly a service organization, content to pas- sively sit backand wait for dealers to call us," explained president Bret Pobanz. "But competition today is stronger, and the more members we sign up, the less it will cost each member."

CBS has also signed on a director of communications to ensure continued technological advances, begun four years ago when it introduced its innovative A Line computer network. "We were the first, but now it seems every group has or is installing a new system," said Pobanz.

With more than 525 members. CBSexpects sales of $300 million in 1988 to exceed$320 million in 1989 and perhaps "snowball" in the next few vears toward $l billion.

Fishman Resigns From Show

Bill Fishman, a columnist for this magazine and director of professional programs and special events for the National Home Center Show since its inception in 1976, will resign after the close of the 1990 show.

"The success and continued growth of the show has created restraints on our consulting activities (Bill Fishman and Affiliates Marketing Services, Inc.)," he said. "lt's time to move on to other things. It also is time to take my company's expansion plans off the back burner. This fall we will be adding stalT at our San Diego, Ca. headquarters, enlarging our national network of affiliated consultants andbeginning an aggressive campaign to expand our client base."

John Berry, director of the trade show division of Vance Publishing Corp., the show sponsor, said that the funtions performed by Fishman and his staff will be handled internally after 1990. No successor to Fishman has been named.

Glen Oak Rebuilds Plant

LEAIIEBS 0l the Wood Moulding & Millwork Producers Association for 1989: Stu Westlake. Louisiana-Pacilic Coro., Bed Bluff, Ca., immediate past pres.; Tom MacDonald, Contacl Lumber Co.'s Clear Pine Mouldings, Inc., Portland, 0r., pres; Robert Weiglein, Snider Lumber Products Co., Turlock, Ca., v.p.; Oave

Rix, Yuba River Moulding & Millwork, Inc., Yuba City, Ca., treas., and Bernard J. Tomasko, executive v.p., WMMPA. Elections were held at the annual meeting in Ventura, Ca. See The Merchant Magazine, April, pp. 66-67.

Glen Oak Lumber & Milling, Inc. is nearing completion of a state of the art 20,000 sq. ft. plant being built to replace a facility destroyed by fire last year.

The Montello, Wi., plant, which will have restricted access, expects to be on line in July producing S4S hardwood. Several new products are being developed for later release.