all it a downturn. Call it a recession. Call it a really bad stretch of economic road.
Whatever it was, Mel Yoder was all too aware of it and the havoc it was wreaking on
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the decades-old business – Yoder Lumber Company Inc. – that bears his family’s
name.
Staff hours were trimmed and positions were eliminated. The hardwood industry’s
production plummeted from a record-high 13 billion board feet in 2007, to only 5 million
within just a fewyears.
May 2014
| BusinessWorld | 167
