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From truck-load to train-load
How Conlin put over a 10,633 % sales increase
o u r t e e n y e a r s ago,
FJames J. Conlin, a paint
merchantofBridgeport,Conn., put in a stock of Dutch Boy white-lead. His first year's sales totalled 2 ]4 tons. In 1912 his sales grew to 18>J tons. Each year his Dutch Boy sales grew larger.
ously employed. Mr. Conlin personally drills all clerks in actively pushing Dutch Boy white-lead and other fast-mov ing Dutch Boy products. He tells us that he attributes his success largely to the principle of quick turnover as illus trated bv his record of Diitoti
Dv iyio lie was srinnff
This si-uiy is more rhan a
as in 1911. Then sales j umped
tribute to the enterprise of
to 7l/i tons in 1919, a year
Mr. Conlin. It is a message
when many merchants were
to every alert paint merchant
finding it difficult to keep
throughout the country who
normal stocks moving. But the record growth in
Mr. Conlin's Dutch Boy sales was made in the last few years
Thi* it the sew three-rtory home of the Conlin
Company, Bridgeport. Conn. When Mr. Conlin began telling Dutch Boy white-lead in 1911 hit
tore wa* amall, hi* tales force but one elerk. To day, it takes 15 people to carry on Mr. Conlin's growing businses.
would like to see the dollars come in faster.
Write us or ask the Dutch Boy salesman for more infor
--189J4 tons in 1921, and 241J4 tons in 1922, this last
Dutch Boy White-Lead
mation about the quick sales and many profits of Dutch
representing art increase over the first year's Boy white-lead. Salesmaking helps--attractive
sales of 10,633%.
window displays, special paint booklets, movie
Quick sales--many profits vtr Ccnhn's record is a remarkable muoiscment of the rapid-turnover principle practiced
slides, newspaper cuts, etc.--;are yours for the
asking. Specify your needs in a
,
Ic l Lc i to our nearest branch.
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today by every successful merchant. From the start back in 1911, Mr. Conlin concentrated his efforts on products which sold quickly.
Today, this same sales policy is just as vigor-
NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY
New York, It! Broadway; Boston, tji State St.; Buffalo. I>6 Oak Street; Chicago, 90 Wen ilth St.; Cincinnati, 659 Freeman Art.; Cleveland, &JO Weat Superior Avenue; St. Louie. ?lt Chestnut St.; San Francisco, 48$ California Street; Pittsburgh, National Lead k Oil Co. of Penna., jr6 Fourth Avenue; Philadelphia, John T. Lewii it Bros-, Co., 437 Cheemut Street.
HARDWARE RETAILER February 1924 Ixrue AMERICAN PAINT &. OIL DEALER Ftbmary 1924 Itsue