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"The Michigan Lumber and Building Materials Association will take the lead in creating a forum to bring together the leadership of industry associations in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin for the purposes of discussing the possibility of cooperatively supporting the formation of a regional building materials umbrella association before the close of the decade."
The reasons for establishing this regional organization are to reduce expenses resulting from duplicative staff, efforts, and services; increase efficiencies; aggregate buying power; increase member services/programs and thereby maximize the return on investment for member dealers and suppliers in the Lake States region.
This will be accomplished by (1) legally reserving the name "Great Lakes Building Materials Association" for future use, (2) coordinating and holding meetings with the leadership of the lake states associations, (3) continuing to expand the scope and effectiveness of MLBMA member services, (4) making these services available to other associations in the region through a partnership basis and seeking out services from their associations that MLBMA cannot deliver on its own, and (5) beginning the aggregation process with those associations that are interested and ready to do so, even if others are not. |
