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January 21, 2009 Illinois Cement Company is pleased to announce that Tom Clarke, VP-Marketing, will take a new position within the company as VP-Market Development. In his new role, Tom, with more than 40 years experience in the construction materials industry, will take the lead in seeking and developing non-traditional markets for our Portland cement products. With our long-term strategy to develop inter-modal logistics, Tom will explore river and rail transportation and other avenues to market expansion. He will continue to represent Illinois Cement Company in national and local industry association activities and act as our liaison to those involved in specification developments, nationally and locally. Further, Tom will also evaluate new directions and opportunities in expanding our product catalog. With this change, the position of VP-Sales and Marketing will be filled through the promotion of Kurt Ewoldt from Manager-Sales and Marketing. The Technical Sales Representatives will report directly to him. Kurt has been in training specifically for this position since he came to us from the Mountain Cement Company. He has fully demonstrated the ability to lead the Sales and Marketing effort in these difficult economic times. His experienced team of Kevin Rustemeyer, Dan Garreffa, Jake Miller and Brad Oertel, with over 70 years of combined experience in the sales and promotion of Portland cement in our market, are ready to move forward under Kurt's leadership. He will direct these experienced professionals in their effort to successfully fulfill our expectations in the current construction environment and position us to grow as our market improves. Please join us in congratulating them on achieving these new levels of responsibility and wish them well in their effort to successfully fulfill them.
Illinois
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