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Rates: 25 words for $25, additional words 70Q ea. Phone number counts as I word, address as 6. Headline or centered copy, $6 per line. Private box or special border, $6 ea. Column inch rate: $45 camera-ready, $55 if we set the type. Names of advertisers using a box number cannot be released. Address replies to box number shown in ad c/o Building Products Digest, 4500 Campus Dr., Ste. 480, Newport Beach, Ca. 92660-1872. Make checks payable to Cutler Publishing. Mail copy to above address, Fax to 949-852-0231 or call (949) 852-1990. Deadline for copy is the 20th of the month. Payment must accompany copy unless you have established credit with us.

Flint River Forest Products Wholesale Opportunity

We have a great opportunity for a proven, high integrity sales professional. The position is in Perry, Georgia.

As the first salesperson, all accounts are open to you as we start together on the ground floor. Why should you come with us?

1. We have been in the lumber business since 1919.

2. We have a 4,{+l credit rating.

3. The "good accounts" are not already "locked up."

4. Insurance and 401k is available.

5. The quality of life in Perry is THE BEST!

Our community of Peny is the finest "little city" in Georgia with a population of 10,000. It is on Interstate 75 thirty minutes south of Macon and ninety minutes south of Atlanta. We have excellent schools and a great private school (K4-12). Our private school is college prep with all graduates going to college.

We have a wonderful opportunity and will be very selective. Call us at (888) 605-7601 and ask for Roy Gentry.

WANTED: Plywood/OSB strips, drops; sound, square, uniform, dry, thickness l/4 through23132. Prefened width, 3-l12, 5-l/2 or wider. Length 32 to 96 inches or Ionger. Mixed or truckload. Send price and availability to FAX #901-682-8501, or mail ro: Lumber Source, 4746 Spottswood, Memphis, Tn. 38 I I 7. Phone (888) 576-8723 (LSOURCE).

COMPLETB REMAN & FINGERIOINT PLANT FOR SALE IN WACO. TEXAS

7 acres of land served by MP Railroad. Lumber storage sheds, dry kiln, priming line.

All equipment to manufacture door jambs and F/J studs.

Cafl Scotty Aston at (972) 494-2516 or Bob Crandall at (254) 799-4991.

FOR SALE: (2) 75 h.p. Ingersol Rand air compressors, $1,000 each. (l) 75 h.p. Gardner Denver screw air compressor, $6,000. (l) 15,500-lb. Hyster forklift, $15,000. (2) Samuel plastic strapping machines with OMS heads, $18,000 each. (1) Interlake plastic strapping machine, $8,000. Call (540) 483-5264, ext. 231.

100 MBF 2xl2xRlL, #4 common pecky incense cedar, $135/1\4. Jerry @ RPF Lumber, (800) 655-0350.

DRY KILN STICKS

HONDURAN HEART PINE FLOORING

IPE & OTHER HARDWOOD DECKING BOARDS

Interamerican Wood Products has available for sale hardwood dry kiln sticks from Malaysia, heart pine Honduran flooring, and imported decking boards. We can ship all over the U.S. Please call us for a quote at (912) 2830353 and ask for James Stovall. Your complcte satisfaction is our guarantee.

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Anthony Forest Products Co. Bean Lumber Co., curt .......14001 zsz-i526 Dellic Timber Corp.

Hoover Treated Wood Products................... Weyerhaeuser Co. White River Hardwoods...

Brothers.................(800) 542-6777 (828) 584-0785

Building Products ol America .........................(800) 962-1 51 8

Buildscape.. ........(888) 552-0061

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Hoover Treated Wood Products, Inc. .............(904) 258-781 8

Lumbermen's Underwriting Alfiance,,.,..,,....,..(800) 327-0630

McEwen Lumber Co. (Delray Beach).............(561) 276-5155

McEwen Lumber Co. (Jacksonville) ...............(904) 783-01 70

McEwen Lumber Co. (Orlando)......................(407) 299 4280

McEwen Lumber Co. (Tampa) .......................(813) 248-41 1 1

Pacific Forest Products........(800) 845-0224 (877) 955-9663

Precision Architectural Products, Inc..............(888) 966-3777

Robbins Mlg. (Ft. lilyers) ....(800) 330-2219 (941) 334-2219

Robbins Mtg. (Orlando) .... .(800) a32-8858 (407) 293-0321

Robbins Mfg. (Tampa) ...... .(800) 282-9336 (813) 971-3030

Southeastern l\4etals Mlg. C0.......,.................(904) 757-4200

Southern Pine Inspection 8ureau...................(904) 434-261 1

Southern Pine Timber Pr0ducts............,..,.....(800) 229-7463

Southern Wire Cloth C0.......(800) 345-6589 (305) 688-2572

Weyerhaeuser BMD (Jacksonville) ................(800) 342-5955 (904) 783-2007

Weyerhaeuser Bl\,lD (Pompano Beach).,.,,.,,.(800) 432-0655 (954) 946-51 1 1 Gronon Arauco Wood Products, Inc..................... .......(770]| 379-9270 Arch Wood Protection .......,.., (770) 801-6600 Burt Lumber Co. ......(706) 678-1 531 Georgia Lumber Co , .. .....(800) 995-8627

Georgia-Pacific....................(770) 953-7000 (800) 866-1414

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Mississippi Lumberyard Celebrates 75th

Y-D Lumber Co., Belzoni, Ms., is celebrating its 75th year of continuous family operation. Ownet W,L. Solornon ItrI noted that although "things are tough down here at the moment," he sees the recent dip in the U,S. economy as just a side-bar when considered from the vantage point of 75 years in business.

The company h*s been owned by the Solomon family since its founding in 1926 by Will Solornon, who prior to founding Y-D, worked for the railroad in Greenville, Ms.

Will Solornon began the business in April of 1926, only to haye the yard and store destroyed one year later by the Mississippi Delta flood of 1927. A.lthough the flood

Big Boxes Attract Each Other

An increasingly familiar scene nationwide finds Home Depot and Lowe's units located directly across the st''eet from one another, a setup some view as advantageous to both stores, despite initial customer losses.

"They can actually draw off each others' customers," says marketing professor Gayle Marco.

Bob Gfeller, Lowe's senior vice president of marketing, advertising and communications, says that when a Home Depot operates across the street from a Lowe's, which is the case at 57 locations nationwide, everything from store management to parking lot lines to store signage is carefully reviewed.

"We'll step back and make sure we go over it two or three times to make sure that store's performing as it should be," he says, adding that the water was 5' high in the buildings, a fire started by lime and cement mix actually accounted for most of the destruction. average nine-month period between the inking of a real estate deal and the store opening is ample time to prepare. or call (949) 852-1990 or mail to Building Products Digest, 4500 Campus Dr., Suite 480, Newport Beach, Ca.92660-1872.

W.L. "Mr. Red" Solomon Jr. joined the business after WW II, running Y-D Lumber with his father until the former's retirement in 1976. "Mr. Red" retired in 1987 to let his son W.L. Solomon III run the business, thus becoming the third generation of Solomons at the reigns of the Belzoni company.

In 1948 Y-D Lumber acquired a ready mix plant in Belzoni and another in Hollandale, Ms., in 1965. The plants were sold in 1997 and 1994 respectively.

According to Solomon III, no official anniversary celebrations have been planned as of yet.

"Any kind of business hit we take, as customers might try a competitor. is short-lived," he says. "If stores aren't in great shape, or if management isn't in great shape, you run the risk of losing customers to a competitor."

Gfeller said customer loyalty in the home improvement sector is not as high as most people think. "We like it when we open up a Lowe's across from a Home Depot," he says. "We're finding that the consumer is more critical and analytical in how they make their choice. We're finding we can go toe to toe."

Nevertheless, Marco says, history says one of the giants has to fail. "It's destined to happen," he asserts. "After all, how much more can we fix up?"

Building Products Digest - August 2001

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Arauco Wood Products [1131........23

Arch Wood Protection [101].Cover I

Bean Lumber Company 11221.......33

Bowie Sims Prange [115] ...............25

Buildscape t1291..................Cover IV

Building Products Digest.....Cover II

Can Trim [114] )L

Computer Associates, Inc. [06]......7

Cox Wood Preserving [lO8].....17, 22 Crows [107]

Crumpler Plastic Pipe [121] ..........31

DLH Nordisk t1051...........................6

Distribution Management Systems, Inc. [103].... ..............3

Elder Forest Products, Inc. [128] Cover III

Elder Wood Preserving t1251 ........36

Glen Oak Lumber & Milling t11U

Hankins, Inc. [123] .........................34

Hood Industries [117].....................27

International Paper Co. [112] .......21

Louisiana-Pacific Corp. [110]........19

Lumber Tag Specialties [116]........26

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Maze Nails t1261 .............................37

Northstar Vinyl Products [109].....18

Pacific MDM Products t1041...........5

Precision Architectural Products t1021

Savannah Wood Preserving Company If f 9]...........................30

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Smith Millwork [127].........Cover III

Somerset Door & Column Company t1181........... ............30

Swan Secure Products t1241..........34

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