Manfredi & Associates is a unique marketing information firm that specializes in the construction, mining, farm and material handling equipment industry. The company maintains a staff of six professionals who have diverse research skills in these highly specialized disciplines. Key professionals are:

• Frank Manfredi - President, Manfredi & Associates. Prior to forming Manfredi & Associates, Mr. Manfredi was responsible for the direction of construction equipment research in the Machinery Services Group at Nielsen/Dataquest for eight years.

  Assignments included strategic planning, econometric forecasting, territory analysis, financial analysis, acquisition analysis, product planning, and supervision of three of Dataquest's four research groups. Previously, he was Supervisor of Market Research for International Harvester Company's Payline Group where he had six years of experience in forecasting construction machinery industry sales, performing field surveys, and studying overseas markets. Previous to that, Mr. Manfredi had four years of selling experience with an East Coast construction equipment distributor where he had general line and material handling sales responsibility. Mr. Manfredi has a B.S. degree in Industrial Distribution from Clarkson University and an M.B.A. from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Christine H. Bloch - Associate, Manfredi & Associates. Mrs. Bloch has more than twelve years of market research and analysis experience in consumer and construction and truck market research. Prior to joining Manfredi & Associates, she worked with Arbitron Rating supervising people who conducted personal interviews. Prior to that for nine years she was with International Harvester Company's Construction Equipment division, Truck division and Computer Systems Group. Mrs. Bloch has a Bachelor of Science degree from Indiana University and completed graduate work in marketing management at Roosevelt University.