BRG Townsend Continues to Expand End Markets Practice

14 November 2000

BRG Townsend Continues to Expand End Markets Practice

    MOUNT OLIVE, N.J.--Nov. 14, 2000--BRG Townsend, Inc., (BRG) is pleased to announce that John A. Latham has joined the End Markets Business Group as a Senior Consultant.
    Mr. Latham has over thirty years of paper and plastics industry experience, including over ten years as a packaging industry consultant. While at St. Regis (formerly part of Champion International and now part of International Paper) he was involved in new product development, marketing research, national account sales, and strategic planning. More recently, John successfully built and organized a team that introduced and commercialized a newly patented film technology for Formosa Plastics Corporation.
    As a consultant John has managed numerous multiclient studies on emerging technologies, and paper fiber recycling as well as proprietary studies that recommended business strategies for creating profitable new business opportunities.
    John has led multifunctional teams that have successfully addressed business planning, competitive intelligence, new product introduction, product positioning, and commercial development.
    John holds a BS degree in Animal Science and an MBA in marketing from Rutgers University.

    BRG Townsend, Inc., a Business Research Group Company, is a global management consulting firm providing research based solutions directing business decisions. Bringing over 50 years of experience serving the global plastics, chemicals, pulp & paper, and related materials industries, BRG provides data, analysis and insight...worldwide. For more information on this, or on any of BRG's products and services, please access our website www.brgtownsend.com or contact Sales & Marketing Manager, Abbe Scheiner at 973-347-5300 or e-mail to ascheiner@brgtownsend.com.