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.

Canadian Hydronics Council: Education and Training
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Seminars on Technical Changes in the 2005 National Construction Codes
National Research Council

CIPH Requests that the Provinces and Territories Mandate a Uniform Canada-wide Use of Conservation Type Plumbing Products

The Canadian Hydronics Council works cooperatively with TSSA to find solutions to Reduce Potential Carbon Monoxide Incidents

2005 Report on the State of Canada's Housing Released
Canada Housing and Mortgage Corporation

Employment Report: 2005 Recap
Canadian Chamber of Commerce

ASA Materials Market Digest

Wholesale Trade, October 2005
Statistics Canada

Study: Is Canada's manufacturing lagging compared with the United States?
Statistics Canada

Building Permits, November 2005
Statistics Canada

Thinking Small: Customer Service Depends on your Attitude
By Paul Tulenko, Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Shifts in Alcohol Distribution Channels
MDM Interview: Perspectives on consolidation pressures & challenges ahead, by Thomas P. Gale,
Modern Distribution Management

Achieve Double-Digit Growth with Low Risk and No Additional Sales and Marketing Costs
Channel Focus, Industrial Performance Group, Inc.

Who will decide the future of Industrial Distribution?
By Mark Dancer, Pembroke Consulting

Hot! Hot! Hot! Global Siting's Hottest Locations 
By John S. McClenahen, Industry Week

Home Depot Inc. buys Hughes Supply for about $3.2 billion US

Counterfeit Goods: How Industries Counter Counterfeits
Institute of Continuing Legal Education

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Workshops

The following workshops are scheduled for Spring 2006:

Inventory Management, featuring Jon Schreibfeder, April 13th, Toronto

Leadership Skills for the Wholesale Branch Manager featuring Jim Ambrose, April 21-22,   
 Toronto  

Comprehensive Three-day Leadership and Financial Skills Workshop featuring Jim Ambrose,  May
 9-11, Vancouver

Outside Sales: The Changing World of Selling, featuring  Frank Foster, May 26th, Toronto

Stay tuned for more details!

Multimedia

Employee Performance Tool Kit now available from CIPH

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

New Publications from NAW/DREF

Outlook 2006: An Executive's Companion to Facing the Forces of Change

Connect with Your Suppliers: A Wholesaler-Distributor’s Guide to Electronic Communications Systems

Insights and Answers for Distributor Sales People

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Questions? Comments? Have industry news to share?
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.