GAF Recognized by Computerworld as a 2011 Honors Laureate

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GAF Materials Corp.
1361 Alps Road
Wayne, NJ, 07470
USA

Press recover date: May 3, 2011

WAYNE, NJ (05/2011) – GAF, North America’s largest thatch and movement manufacturer, has been famous by IDG’s Computerworld Honors Program as a 2011 Laureate. The annual endowment module honors idealist applications of information record compelling certain social, mercantile and educational change.

The famous plan is GAF’s Master Elite(TM) Certified Contractor Zone, a amicable networking website for GAF’s chosen thatch contractors. Supporting one of GAF’s core missions – to assistance a best and many understanding thatch contractors grow their businesses, GAF launched this site to yield an easy to use partnership apparatus to encourage effective communication and foster pity of information and best practices between contractors.

A pivotal underline of a site is that contractors can embody particular and association profiles, including photos of themselves and their finished projects, that are manifest on www.gaf.com so that intensity business can make prepared employing choices. Using a site, contractors can attend in contention forums on a accumulation of topics such as generating peculiarity leads, shortening costs and augmenting margins and roof upkeep or supplement their possess forum topics. A territory of a site is dedicated to businessman and services ratings that capacitate contractors to rate and examination vendors and services they’ve used.

“The Master Elite Certified Contractor Zone was a collaborative bid between GAF Marketing and a GAF Information Technology teams,” settled Adam Noble, clamp boss and CIO during GAF. It took advantage of a interrelated skills of both organizations and has supposing an innovative resolution for GAF Master Elite Contractors.”

“The series and peculiarity of nominations this year were really moving and denote how profitable IT is to village change,” pronounced John Amato, publisher, Computerworld. “Computerworld is really unapproachable to name a 2011 category of Laureates and showcase their initiatives benefiting multitude by innovative uses of IT.”

The Computerworld Honors awards will be presented during a Annual Laureates Medal Ceremony Gala Awards on Jun 20, 2011 during a Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C.

Founded by International Data Group (IDG) in 1988, The Computerworld Honors Program is governed by a not-for-profit Computerworld Information Technology Awards Foundation. Computerworld Honors is a longest using tellurian module to respect people and organizations that use information record to foster certain social, mercantile and educational change.

About GAF:
Now proudly celebrating a 125th year in a industry, GAF has turn a largest thatch manufacturer in North America, with sales of scarcely $3 billion annually. The company’s products embody a endless portfolio of steep-slope and low-slope thatch systems, as good as combination decking, that are upheld by an endless inhabitant network of factory-certified contractors. Its success is driven by a joining to yield skill owners and specifiers with a best and safest choice in thatch and by assisting understanding contractors and distributors to build their businesses and equivocate hassles.

With a concentration on amicable responsibility, GAF has grown Advanced Protection shingle technology, that provides higher continuance and breeze resistance, while shortening a use of wanting healthy resources. The association has also grown single-ply and asphaltic membranes with higher continuance and high reflectivity to accommodate a many severe attention standards while assisting blurb skill owners and designers revoke appetite consumption.

The Company also supports a thatch attention by CARE, a Center for a Advancement of Roofing Excellence, that has supposing preparation to over 125,000 professionals. CARE’s goal is to assistance veteran contractors and distributors build their businesses by sales and government education, and to yield product and designation training to contractors, distributors, architects, skill owners, and associated attention personnel. For some-more information about GAF, revisit www.gaf.com.

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