Pipeline Online is CIPH's web digest designed to provide you with the most
up-to-date information on CIPH events, programs and trade shows, as well as delivering news on the industry and the economy.

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Education and Training Focus "Distribution and the Power of Profit/Understanding your ABC's"
Take advantage of this unique training resource available exclusively through CIPH!

CIPH Announces Spring 2007 Workshop Program Schedule presented with the Partners in Distribution Excellence

CIPH Announces 2007 Webinar Schedule and Details
Take advantage of these valuable training opportunities!
Registration details coming soon!

CIPH and HRAI Join Forces to Produce the 2nd Edition of CMX.CIPHEX in 2008
Exhibitors, book now to register! http://www.cmxciphexshow.com/

CIPH Board Approves Funding of CIPH Region Business Meeting Speakers

CIPH featured in Supply House Times: "Supply Chain Partner of the Month"

Employment Search Function now available at ciph.com

CIPH Scholarship Program Update

CHC Pens Deal to Deliver Intermediate Hydronics (modern hot water heating) Design Training

ASA Materials Market Digest, January, 2007

Housing Starts in 2006 Reach Their Second Highest Level in Nearly Two Decades Despite Cooling in December
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Building Permits, January, 2007
Statistics Canada

Wholesale Trade, December, 2006
Statistics Canada

Ferguson Makes Two Acquisitions
Modern Distribution Management

Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting And Piracy (BASCAP) Intelligence Reports

Facing the Forces of Change®: Lead the Way in the Supply Chain
(Ships March 2007)

Adam J. Fein: Where productivity is growing in wholesale distribution

Grand Rapids Plumbing Supplier Sold to National Wholesaler
By Keith Essenburg, The Grand Rapids Press

Canadian Construction Indusry Forecast, December 2006
Canadian Construction Association

Stay tuned for more information!

http://www.cmxciphexshow.com/

Workshops

CIPH will be co-hosting the following workshops in Spring 2007. Registration details coming soon!

"Successful Selling Skills for Inside Sales" featuring Frank Foster, Edmonton, May 3, 2007

"Strategic Selling to Major Accounts" featuring Frank Foster, Toronto, May 24, 2007

"Leadership Skills for the Wholesale Branch Manager" featuring Jim Ambrose, Montreal, April 17-18, 2007

"Effective Inventory Management" featuring Jon Schreibfeder, Vancouver, April 11, 2007

"Showrooms and Showroom Selling"featuring David Lyon, Toronto, March 2007, date tba

Multimedia

Improving Distributor Profitability by Al Bates

Employee Performance Improvement Tool Kit

College of Product Knowledge CD

Joe Ellers' Teleseminar Series Schedule for 2006

INSIDE SALES DVD Now Available Through CIPH

Advanced Inside Sales CD

Improving the Bottom Line Financial Planning CD

MBA: My Business Analysis

New Publications from NAW/DREF

Price for Success: An Online Course for the Wholesale Distribution Sales Team

Facing the Forces of Change®: Lead the Way in the Supply Chain available March 2007

(CIPH members can take advantage of NAW Member Association pricing)

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Contact Steve Apps, Editor
Pipeline Online: s.apps@ciph.com

The Canadian Institute of Plumbing & Heating is a not-for-profit trade association founded in Montreal in 1933. CIPH is the Canadian Association representing the interests of companies that manufacture, sell, and distribute Plumbing, Hydronic Heating, Industrial PVF and Waterworks products and services. CIPH Wholesalers operate over 600 warehouses and showrooms across Canada. Over 10,000 Canadians are directly employed by CIPH members. Total annual industry sales are at $4 billion.