Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> February 23, 2004

JOS WINTERMANS – SODISCO-HOWDEN GROUP INC (SOD:TSX)

JOS J. WINTERMANS has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Sodisco-Howden Group Inc. since July 2001. Before joining the company, Mr. Wintermans served for a period of one year as President and CEO of Skyjack Inc., a leader in the industrial platform manufacturing industry, and for a period of two years as President and CEO of Rogers CableSystems Ltd., a world leader in the telecommunications industry. From 1988 to 1996, Mr. Wintermans served first as President, CEO and member of the Board of Canadian Tire Acceptance Ltd., responsible for an array of financial services, and then as Senior Vice President, Diversified Business, Canadian Tire Corporation, reporting to the President and CEO. Mr. Wintermans is an MBA graduate from Queen's University of Kingston (Ontario) and is a Master of Law graduate from Leyden University, Leyden, The Netherlands. Profile
TWST: Would you begin with an overview of Sodisco-Howden Group?

Mr. Wintermans: Sodisco-Howden Group is a distributor in Canada of

hardlines and building materials, with sales of approximately