Beyond yield improvement: Selected marketing aspects of character-marked furniture

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 51-57

  Bumgardner, Matthew S ^a,d   Bush, Robert J ^b,d   West, Cynthia D ^c,d  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FOREST PRODUCTS SOCIETY   (United States)

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