TRIARCH
JOINS RPM - BRUCE WINGATE VICE PRESIDENT, January 17, 2003 A new day is here. Triarch is now a part
of the RPM group of companies. RPM owns a number of industry
leaders, such as Tremco roofing systems, Alumanation roofing
coatings, Carboline, Plasite, Mathys, Westfield and TCI; Dryvit
exterior insulation finishing systems (EIFS); Stonhard and
Duracon industrial and commercial floor coatings; Rust-Oleum
and Stops-Rust rust-preventative coatings and decorative coatings
marketed under the brands of Painter's Touch, American Accents
and Zinsser. Triarch will operate as a division of Dryvit
Systems.
Triarch will continue to operate its own
sales and marketing team under my leadership. The primary
sales office will continue to be in Houston with many of the
people you already know, such as Ryan in inside sales, Lorena
Fischer in customer service and Don Treybig in Field Ops.
Our material pricing is the same in 2003 as it was in 2002.
Our phone, fax number, and email addresses will remain the
same.
Manufacturing and shipping of Triarch
products will be through Dryvit ISO9000 certified plants.
In the short run customer service levels in terms of order
turn time and sample time will be the same, but over the next
number of months they will improve nicely as the efficiency
of the new production facilities are realized. The problems
experienced over the last couple of months in terms of longer
lead-time on orders and samples will disappear.
I am very excited about our future as Dryvit
provides us the best manufacturing technology, quality control,
and production capacity to seriously ramp up the entire company
to be a multiple of where we are today. It also allows us
to refocus on the growth of Triarch by working together to
regain our sales momentum.
