number one is our business number two is our industry and number three is our community so first off on our business we are that company that is going from small business to medium sized business and we talk in terms of our company as for the recession versus post recession and what that means is roughly in two thousand and ten we had roughly one hundred ten employees and now we have roughly three hundred fifty employees we've grown from one location prerecession to five locations where main office work company was founded approximately seventy years ago on the corner of church and washroom and zeal and we've added facilities in grand rapids in two thousand and eleven in elkhart indiana in two thousand and thirteen in waterford michigan and in detroit area in two thousand and fifteen and recently this year in mishawaka several market segments the multifamily and commercial set customer segment the single family segment the remodeler segment the end homeowner and user segment as well as the agricultural building community and we serve that those segments with multiple product lines we are more than lumber we serve with roofing and siding windows next year doors cabinets into your german doors and decking products a little bit about our of our industry and it's been growing at a at a fairly steady state clip coming out of the recession a couple impacts are in industry that are worth noting is number one the lack of the old demand for single family homes so how that has changed is as you may have known them the millennial generation is making life decisions much later than say baby boomers or jet x or they're getting married later having kids later so they don't need the single family home so how that's changing the business is there's much greater demand for multifamily apartments those types of of structures and that's what impacting our business in a great deal so if you have a millennial living in your basement you're part of the housing problem the other the other major factor that's more on the demand side on the supply side a major factor is the lack of construction trade labor and that is impacting manufacturing trades as well as a lot of skilled trades that a lot of us depend on but it is has a major impact on the construction industry many of our customers have more demand than they have supply and and to execute in the jobsite of what needs to get done for their customers so we're part of many  industry initiatives both within industry and in the general community such as michigan career quest so anyone heard of michigan career quest eight nine thousand students and into the device place downtown grand rapids and they're looking at the construction trades manufacturing trades health care and i t and trying to get middle and high school students a little more interested in the skilled trades it's a great initiative we're also we're also part of the construction work force right path and and get them the proper education and training for construction trades so it's interesting it's a lot different than it was say prerecession in the home growing market but life is good business is good and these are w around our staff team and so on is these are better problems so it's all good and then with no one in our community it just had softer jane clark it from the west coast chamber and many community leaders that are here and i feel and having a little more experience with other communities as we've set up other locations in indiana throughout michigan we have a really unique collaborative culture here were people from all different sectors come together to solve common problems and that is something be proud of in our community makes us you and it makes us very honored to be part of the holiday meal in west michigan community so with that i'd like to also say thanks to our team of professionals are right here in the front row so if they could please stand and please see any of these professionals for any of your building needs at any time we appreciate the opportunity to sponsor and have a few words today and we all right our number is seven to five four seven nine and i'm glad you won you could be worried there for a second i don't know what's going on today i'm so we're counting twelve days and counting until christmas and chambers going to make it easy for you if you're not finished with your shopping we've got our west coast cash program two ways for you to be a winner today maybe get a little west coast cast for yourself in addition to purchasing for your loved ones so on your way out the smarting we have our west coast cash station the first thing you need to do is take a look at the merchant list there see if you've seen places like spending west coast cash grow your business card in the fish bowl we will make a drawing one person is going to win twenty five dollars in west coast cash so that's the first way you can with today second way if you leave today and within twenty four hours by west coast cast you're also entered in the second drawing for the next twenty five dollars and west coast cash so we want to give you a little extra perk this holiday season the table is right outside the doors at least take a look at that and you'll support over one hundred local merchants so it's a great way to get  snowmelt system is working beautifully down in evergreen comment so we want you to drive carefully monday morning you're going to be able to get there early you'll be able to park in the neighborhood enjoy the wonderful new snow melted sidewalks in the neighborhood to help get you there safely so if i don't see you monday morning have a great holiday season we'll be back here for the new year thank you our guest speaker this morning is brian anderson police the commercialization of herman miller's smart office furniture previously writing service herman miller's director of future technology collaborating such companies as microsoft h p samsung lodge attack google and others to explore the future of our work is perspectives on the future workplace have been featured in many many publications including fortune the wall street journal new york times and