Globe Manufacturing exec featured at CEO Forum

March 29, 2006

NH Business Review Staff,

Globe Manufacturing President Don Welch will be the featured speaker at the University of New Hampshire’s CEO Forum, scheduled for Thursday, April 6, at the New England Center in Durham.

“Globe Manufacturing: Combining 100 Years of Knowledge with New Technology to Protect Today’s First Responders” will begin at 8 a.m., and breakfast will be served at 8:30 a.m. The program begins at 9 a.m.

The Pittsfield-based Globe is the largest manufacturer of structural fire suits in the world and supplies protective clothing for first responders under the Globe Firefighter Suits, Cairns Protective Clothing and Globe LifeLine brands. For more information, call Barbara Draper at 603-862-110 or e-mail her at barbara.draper@unh.edu. Registration deadline is Thursday, March 29. – NHBR STAFF

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