Hearthlist Digest #283 - Monday, April 19, 1999
 
Re: Y2K, Etc
  by "John Fuller" <[email protected]>
'99 show review
  by "Energy Store - KG-ONE" <[email protected]>
 

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Subject: Re: Y2K, Etc
From: John Fuller <[email protected]> (by way of Craig Issod)
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:59:39 -0400
 
[email protected] wrote:
>
> Hearthlist Digest #282 - Saturday, April 17, 1999
>
>   Where is everybody?
>           by "Craig Issod" <[email protected]>
>
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>
> Subject: Where is everybody?
> From: Craig Issod <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 16:23:51 -0400
>
> Must be that Y2K sales are so strong. However, word on the street is that
> the stove selling season has finally wound down and many might be getting a
> well-deserved rest.
 
Since the fall we have been bombarded with customers looking for wood
products,  but it seems to have slowed with the warming weather.  The
Hearth Products show in Phoenix was 100% better than last year.  It
seemed more companies decided to bring out more and better products.  I
was impressed with the Central Boiler outdoor location showing the wood
fired boilers.  This Y2K thing has really changed our sales and by the
look of all the wood products everyone has been affected.   I found it
interesting speaking to other hearth folks that wood sales seem to be
growing only in areas where gas has been available.  Guess we all want
what we don't have.   I was also amazed at the all the new companies
offering stainless steel grills.  Must be a great market for growth.
Think I'll sell the store and take up a torch.   BBQ anyone?
 
John Fuller
Teton Fireplace Design,  Inc.
[email protected]
 
 
 
 

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Subject: '99 show review
From: [email protected] (Energy Store - KG-ONE)
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:59:40 -0400
 
>How about some comments about the show, new products, industry direction,
>etc.?
 
>Where is Kg-one and his yearly show report?
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Craig,
 
For what it's worth >>>>There were not a lot of new things at the show that
got me excited this year.  After 19 years of hearth products I must be
getting jaded. Actually I came late and left early and haven't had a chance
to review what my  other staff thought of the show.  They didn't come back
with any sunburns so they must have been in attendance.
 
I left the show early this year and spent most of a  week looking at the Big
Ditch....in northern Arizona...and other dead stuff...... I also managed to
get snowbound for two days in Sedona.  ( I didn't even get a chance to drive
out to the famous Sedona power vortexes.)   The desert looks strange with
cacti juxtapositioned with 2ft of snow..... and me in a little red
convertible.  I am definately going back to Arizona during next years HPA
show in Baltimore.
kg-one