OAK BROOK, Ill., Aug. 13 IL-AED-Forum
OAK BROOK, Ill., Aug. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Wall Street Journal All-Stars
Mark Koznarek, partner/research analyst with Cleveland Research Group, and Eli
Lustgarten, senior research analyst at Longbow Research, headline a powerhouse
line-up of thought leaders addressing C-level decision-makers from the
construction equipment industry next month at the AED/QUALCOMM Executive Forum
in Chicago. Distributors, manufacturers, lenders/service providers, and
investors are invited to reserve seats for the Sept. 11-12 conference at
http://www.aednet.org/execforum.
Probing the many recessionary dimensions of the "perfect storm" battering
the business community -- and specifically multimillion-dollar capital
equipment companies -- the analysts are joined by Reed Construction Data chief
economist Jim Haughey, Washington D.C.'s federal highway funding insider Jack
Schenendorf, and acclaimed distribution consultant and author, Dr. Adam Fein.
Political commentator Paul Green -- featured regularly on Chicago's WGN
radio station and a frequent source for such news organizations as New York
Times, Washington Post, Time, and Newsweek -- mixes his election conjecture
with possible policy scenarios equipment businesses can anticipate from the
next Congress and Administration. International family business adviser and
author Dana Telford, long-time construction industry researcher Frank
Manfredi, as well as emissions expert Michael Buckantz from Justice &
Associates round out the timely day-and-a-half conference at the Westin
O'Hare.
Economy, elections, emissions, housing and banking crises, fuel costs,
labor shortages and more have brewed together to create an historically
unprecedented burden on the industry that literally shoulders the horsepower
supplying the U.S. residential, commercial, roads and bridges, manufacturing,
public works and water infrastructure, hotel/leisure, education, and mining
sectors, and more.
A rapid-rotation of presentations and panels, interspersed with audience
polling and Q&A, the Forum is moderated by distribution expert Mike Marks,
principal and managing partner of Indian River Consulting Group, recently
named a Distribution Research Education Foundation Research Fellow by the
National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors.
One of the event's most intriguing sessions is the Forum's panel of
manufacturing executives from China who take the stage late Thursday
afternoon, Sept. 11, to answer questions about their strategies for bringing
Chinese construction equipment into the U.S. marketplace.
About AED
AED is an association of independent distributors, manufacturers and other
organizations involved in the distribution of construction equipment and
related products and services in North America and throughout the world. AED
members sell, service and rent equipment to markets that include heavy and
light construction, mining, agriculture, forestry, aggregates, engines and
industrial.
SOURCE Associated Equipment Distributors (AED)
