Industry & Services >> Analyst Interviews >> April 13, 1998

Paper & Forest Products : C.a. Chip Dillon Iii – Salomon Smith Barney Inc

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 forest

product stocks performed in the last six months of 1997 and in 1998,

year to date.

Mr. Dillon: We've had a volatile period.