ffigrmcgrgdM ffimm $*# ffi* ffir€ t**g

ft fr ott, quality, price volaf ility, code specilications-all these faGtors pul pressule on a builder's choice of materials. But with engineered wood products lrom All-Goasl, uncerlainly isn't part of the equation. Glulams, l-Joists, and laminated veneer lumber products make the grade on every important particular of conslruction proiects. With lower cosl, stable pricing and more consislent performance, engineered wood helps builders meel bolh their budget and their building codes. Call your All-Coasl expert lor more inlormation.

Some Millennium Predictions

With a new millennium days away, some forecasts about the early decades of our new century are in order. So, hang on, here we go.

E-commerce will greatly speed finding products and the resulting transaction. No company will prosper without selling some or all of its inventory on the Internet.

o Following company consolidations, money men will gain greater power, in some cases, eclipsing those who actually know the products. Marketing will gain importance in wood products as proprietary products edge out commodity items. The need to develop brand identity for these new items will increase the marketers' clout within a company.

o The forest products industry will finally make some progress in educating the general public on the need to manage our forests, not to lock them up as demanded by the perverted righteousness of misguided environmentalists.

o Even small town retailers will be able to offer exotic, imported wood species unknown to anyone today but a forestry professor. Improved infrastructure overseas and advances in transportation will give heavy new meaning to the expression "world wood."

o Small, convenience-type retail stores will complement big box retailers in some markets, much like a 7-ll poaches in the supermarket's neighborhood.

o Well run independent lumber yards, retail or wholesale, will survive and prosper, big boxes not withstanding.

. Electronics will increase interactivity between suppliers and customers as information on inventory, credit, delivery and the like flow between them. Use of the Internet will dramatically increase the pace at which business is conducted.

o Single state dealer associations will become rare as more consolidation between groups occur. Several associations will jointly operate superregional trade expos.

o Extensive lockup of huge areas of our federal forests will result in a catastrophic forest fire that will be the largest and most costly in U.S. history.

. 2x4s will sell for $1,000/lvIBF. (We didn't say when.)

See vou in the next millennium!