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Is your environmental C&E firm prepared for the factors that will impact your markets and key business issues in 2008? How will the credit crunch affect your business? Is there any available talent to be hired and where should you look? What opportunities have emerged from the many economic hardships this country is currently enduring? All these questions, and more, form the dividing line between a firm’s success and failure.

Join Environmental Business Journal (EBJ) and ZweigWhite for EBJ’s Review and Forecast of Issues Impacting the Environmental C&E Industry on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 2 p.m. Eastern time. This live, 90-minute webinar will explore the many opportunities in key sectors— such as energy, mining and water— that firms should be focusing on to build success in 2008. Don’t miss your chance to hear it all from two industry experts and have ample time to ask questions on how these factors will affect your firm.

Quantitative and qualitative perspectives will be showcased featuring the following information:

• Market size and growth in environmental C&E by media, customer, and service type
• Growth forecasts by customer and region
• The consolidation and M&A activity in the industry
• The opportunities available in key sectors
• An update on the impact of the credit crunch
• An overview of the talent available in the industry

Presenter Info

Grant Ferrier is president of Environmental Business International Inc., editor of Environmental Business Journal, and an associate with ZweigWhite. EBI is an independent business research and publishing company serving the environmental industry. EBJ has been published since 1988 and is read predominantly by senior executives in the environmental industry. EBI has also published a series of comprehensive market research reports on the environmental industry and conducted proprietary market intelligence and management consulting projects for private companies and government agencies. In late 2007, EBI sold its principal assets in the environmental industry to ZweigWhite and EBI launched Climate Change Business Journal. Mr. Ferrier also founded and published Nutrition Business Journal, a business he sold to Penton Media in 2002, and founded Nutrition Capital Network in 2007.

Mr. Ferrier has a technical background in mechanical engineering and conservation and resource studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Ferrier worked in academia and the private sector in energy efficiency, solar and wind energy from 1978-1984. He entered the publishing business in 1984 and became editor of two trade publications before forming his own publishing and business research firm in 1987.

Mr. Ferrier represents the interests of the environmental industry in many government and business forums. He has testified before three Congressional subcommittees and has served on advisory committees for the OECD, the U.S. EPA and the U.S. Dept. of Commerce. He has served as an expert on the global environmental industry in an official capacity at international meetings sponsored by the United Nations Department of Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development (DPCSD) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). He is co-chairman of the California Environmental Business Council and has served on the board of directors of three private corporations.

George Stubbs is Senior Editor of Environmental Business Journal and has more than 25 years of experience in journalism, working primarily for the environmental and electronics industries. Mr. Stubbs joined Environmental Business Journal in 2001 after serving for more than 10 years as editor of Golob’s Environmental Business Report (formerly Hazardous Materials Intelligence Report), published by World Information Systems (Cambridge, MA). Also while with WIS, Mr. Stubbs served as managing editor of the Massachusetts Environmental Ventures newsletter, a quarterly publication produced in cooperation with the University of Massachusetts-Boston’s Environmental Business and Technology Center. In addition, he wrote quarterly environmental newsletters on behalf of Zurich American and PricewaterhouseCoopers. George holds a B.A. in philosophy from Lawrence University and an M.A. in philosophy from Washington University.