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Issue #511

APC issues new Distributor Price Schedule effective 8-1-08.
August Price Increase		           In case you missed the email broadcast earlier this week to reps and distributors, APC has issued a new Distributor Price Schedule effective 8-1-08.   Click here to download the price file in Excel Format or in PDF Format.   This year's increase (3%) is necessary for the same reason as last year's: high oil prices.   Oil affects virtually everything integral to our products, the chemical raw ingredients, the plastic packaging, and related transportation costs--all of which continue to rise in 2008.   APC has done an extraordinary job of increasing production efficiency to offset material and packaging cost increases.   This allows us to keep our selling price increase percentages far below others in the industry.   Increases are rarely fun to implement, but do result in higher commissions.

All special quotes should be reviewed and increased where possible.
Updating Price Quotes		           In conjunction with the general price increase, all special quotes should be reviewed and increased where possible.   This includes many special order products not listed on the published price sheet.   How high should they go?   Well ... 3% is a good place to start, but note that special quotes that somehow managed to avoid last year's increase will be scrutinized and may need to rise even more.   Here's a tip to make future price increases easier on special quotes: tie them to price schedule changes so quoted prices automatically change in relation.   Offer distributors a percentage discount rather than a flat dollar price.   When the published price rises, their discounted price rises proportionally.

The Friday Fax Editor's Joke of the Week
The Joke		                               Really Bad Stuff.   1 Energizer Bunny Arrested and Charged with Battery   2 A pessimist's blood type is always b-negative   3 Practice safe eating -- always use condiments.   4 A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.   5 Shotgun wedding: A case of wife or death.   6 Marriage is the mourning after the knot before.   7 A hangover is the wrath of grapes.   8 Corduroy pillows are making headlines.   9 Is a book on voyeurism a peeping tome?   10 Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?   11 A successful diet is the triumph of mind over platter.   12 Time flies like an arrow.   Fruit flies like a banana.   13 A gossip is someone with a great sense of rumor.   14 Without geometry, life is pointless.   15 A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.   16 When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I.   17 A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two-tired.

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