EDITIORIAL

An important industry newcomer

For the first time, an extensive listing of industry events with a different company sponsoring each month has been compiled in calendar fomr. We're pleased to tell you that you can find our Deluxe Industry Calendar in this issue. It is affixed farther back in the magazine and is designed for easy removal. Just gently pull it free from the publication. We've even punched a hole in it so you ciur easily hang it up on the wall.

We think you're going to find it helpful when deciding which events you want !o attend during 1995. If you're involved in scheduling meetings, the calendar should help avoid the conflicts and ovedaps that seem to occur so often.

In compiling the events of next year, we've made every effort to include all those firmly scheduled by late 1994. To make the listings as inclusive as possible we contacted associations, institutes, clubs and selected companies. We figure the more the merrier. But when a meeting was subject to a possible change of date, we did not include if What we didn't want is to have someone rely on the calendar and show up for an event that the sponsoring group had shifted to another time and place.

DAVID CUTLER publisher

A tip of the cap is in order here for the firrrs sponsoring the 12 months of 1995. They are: Hickson Co.p., Sunbelt Material Handling, Curt Bean Lumber Co., Weyerhaeuser Co., Pacific Lumber Co., Spyder Lift Trucks, National Building Products Exposition & Conference, Cotter & Co., Dataline Corp., Willamette Industries, Triad Systems Corp., and Lumber Insurance Companies.

The Deluxe Industry Calendar is printed in full color on extra heavy paper for greater durability. It includes an extensive listing of industry organizations, complete with phone numbers to call for further information.

You'll notice the calendar is a product of two sister publications: Thz Merchant Magazine and Building Products Digest. The listings reflecr rhe western and southem regions covered, respectively, by Merchant fid Digest.

Please let us lnow how you like the calendar and feel free to submit any dates you want considered for 1996.

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