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Winter Hardware Show Expands

The educational program developed by the American Hardware Manufacturers Association for the second annual Winter Hardware & Home Center Show and Hardlines Conference is planned to add to the value of show participation for do-it-yourself/hardlines product retailers, distributors and exhibitors. It will open Feb. ll-13, 1984, at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nv.

The show, the largest do-it-yourself/hardlines product showcase in the West, is specificallytargeted at providing buyers in the West the convenience of meeting face to face with the major hardlines suppliers.

"The first show in 1983 clearly demonstrated the need for a winter, western marketing event," William P. Farrell,AHMA executive director, said."We are building on the experience we gained in bringing that show to a successful conclusion.

"Our experience has resulted in some significant additions and improvements. We have refined and sharpened our major speaker/seminar program with the help of the California Pacific Southwest Hardware Association and its executive director, William Maze.

"We are adding a major new educational feature, the Retail Concepts Center, a concentrated exposure to stateof-the-art ideas for hardware/home center retailers in doit-yourself/hardlines product store design, merchandising and display."

A Hardware Industry Packaging Exposition with exhibitors competing for industry recognition in packaging and merchandiser ideas will be introduced this year. The "What's New?" new products exposition will be presented for the second year.

The show last year brought tens of thousands of buyers into contact with over 900 of the top hardlines exhibitors in the country. This year, thousands of products will again be displayed by hundreds of the leading do-ityourself product manufacturers in the country. The program also seeks to maximize contact between buyer and seller by providing events that facilitate this contact.

Western Hardware Assn. Supports The Winter Show

The California Pacific Southwest Hardware Association will be the participating association supporting the Winter National Hardware and Home Center Show in Las Vegas, Nv., Feb. ll-13, 1984, according to William P. Farrell, executive director of the American Hardware Manufacturers Association, sponsor of.the show.

A result of the merger of the California Retail Hardware Association and the Pacific Southwest Hardware Association, the new association with over 1,200 retail members is based in San Francisco with William R. Maze as executive director.

"The participation of the CPSHA," Farrell said, "will make it possible to draw on its resources and those of the National Retail Hardware Association for the production of a seminar program heavily oriented toward providing practical, down-to-earth information for hardware, home center, automotive, do-it-yourself and other hardline retailers."

A model store of the future will demonstrate im- aginative selling ideas which retailers can adapt. A new product exposition, packaging showcase and export assistance program also will be part of the Las Vegas show.

ManvilleBankruptcy Challenged

The 500 lawyers who comprise the Asbestos Litigation Creditors Committee have filed suit in federal court to deny Manville Corp., Denver, Co., further protection under the bankruptcy laws. The attorneys charge the building products firm is profiting from its Chapter I I bankruptcy filing of last August and had "stonewalled" efforts to develop an equitable reorganization plan.

Robert E. Sweeney, a spokesman for the committee, charged that "nothing has been accomplished" during the 100 negotiating sessions with creditors and that Manville had "not acted responsibly, professionally or in good faith."

While Manville was financially strong when it filed for protection under Chapter ll of the federal bankruptcy laws, the company said it faced a total liability of $2 billion'in claims from workers injured by exposure to asbestos. Manville estimated that some 52,000lawsuits would eventually be filed.

A Manville spokesman has called the asbestos attorney's motion "totally out of line."

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