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Beaulieu, the newly designated chief economist for the Heating, Airconditioning
and Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) has already been working
with HARDI members for the past year. |
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COLUMBUS,
Ohio — The Heating, Airconditioning and Refrigeration Distributors
International (HARDI) announced Alan Beaulieu, principal and executive vice
president of the Institute for Trend Research® (ITR), has been designated as
the association’s chief economist.
Over the past year, Beaulieu and his team have been producing the monthly
“HARDI HVACR Sales Trends Report.” ITR has been providing economic trending
information, speaking engagements at HARDI national and regional meetings, and
relevant economic articles in HARDI publications. Beaulieu will continue to
correlate regional and national HARDI sales trends data into the quarterly
HARDI T.R.E.N.D.S. Report, as well as producing the executive summary and
regional reports for each of HARDI’s seven U.S. regions.
Building on this successful business relationship with ITR, the association’s
leadership has decided to utilize the many additional services ITR can offer
HARDI members. New this month HARDI will host a series of Interactive Regional
Forecasting (IRF) programs, an audio only mini-seminar for each of the HARDI
U.S. regions. In each of these sessions Beaulieu will give a live, in-depth
explanation about the information in the regional reports and respond to
questions from participants. The first offering of this new activity occurred
late in July and will be open to all HARDI members. Subsequent quarterly
programs will be available only to those companies who submit their information
as a participant in the data collection survey managed by ITR.
Another new benefit of particular interest to members is the option that ITR,
through Beaulieu, will provide nondata exchange consulting where members are
welcome to call Beaulieu or ITR staff with economic questions. In this
capacity, Beaulieu will serve as HARDI chief economist and be available to
assist members in their decision-making process.
“HARDI is extremely pleased to be able to offer its members this new look on
the horizon of what will be impacting their businesses,” said the association.
“Members who have heard Alan Beaulieu or read his reports have agreed that he
has been on the money in his forecasting and that his reports have brought
value to business decisions. With his designation as HARDI chief economist,
this benefit to members will expand even further.”
For more information, visit www.hardinet.org.
Publication date: 08/03/2009
