Industry & Services >> Analyst Interviews >> April 13, 1998
C.A. "CHIP" DILLON III is a Managing Director of Salomon Smith Barney
Inc. and the Senior North American Paper and Forest Products Industry
Analyst. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a past president of
the Paper and Forest Products Analysts Group of New York. Prior to
joining Salomon Brothers in 1992, Mr. Dillon covered the Forest Products
Industry at First Manhattan Co. and at J.P. Morgan Investment
Management. Mr. Dillon earned a BS from the University of North
Carolina and an MBA from Columbia Business School. Mr. Dillon and his
wife, Margaret, have five children and reside in Summit, New Jersey. Profile
TWST: Let's start with a brief review of how the paper and forestproduct stocks performed in the last six months of 1997 and in 1998,
year to date.
Mr. Dillon: We've had a volatile period.