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A Planning Guide for Small and Medium Size Wood Products Companies

      Those who fail to plan, plan to fail. Here's a detailed, but easy-to-read 75-page handbook on business planning for wood products companies, contributed by Jeff Howe and Steve Bratkovich of the United States Forest Service. December 9, 2005

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A Planning Guide for Small and Medium Size Wood Products Companies

By Jeff Howe and Steve Bratkovich

Second edition; 90 pages.

This guide provides steps on how to prepare the following types of plans - Strategic, Marketing, Operating, Financial, Organizational and Business. A discussion on business vision, mission and values is also included, along with a sample business plan for a wood products company.



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