Membership Qualifications: Membership is open to any law firm with a credit/collections department.
Services Provided: Best Practices discussion, educational sessions
Meetings: Twice per year.
Administrator: Themis Vlahos, CCE, CGA
Phone: 847-483-6428

Membership Qualifications: Membership is open to any company who currently uses SAP or plans to install SAP in the future.
Services Provided: Educational programs, information exchange and networking
Meetings: Three times per year: March, July, and October
Administrator: Themis Vlahos, CCE, 847-483-6428

Membership Qualifications: Company must be national in scope and a producer, manufacturer, wholesale distributor or retailer of agricultural  input products.
Services Provided: No account clearance conducted. Group holds two educational conferences each year.
Meetings: April and November
Administrator: Mike Bowman
Phone: 314-677-2801

Membership Qualifications: Manufacturers of architectural metal or glass products.
Services Provided: Three reports per year, express alerts
Meetings: Two meetings and one conference call per year
Administrator: Rochelle Wilson
Phone: 314-677-2803

Membership Qualifications: Manufacturers of auto glass products.
Services Provided: Three reports per year, express alerts
Meetings: Two meetings and one conference call per year
Administrator: Rochelle Wilson
Phone: 314-677-2803

Membership Qualifications: Publishers and distributors of periodicals, pamphlets, records, tapes and other products sold to Christian bookstores
Services Provided: Monthly reports and express alerts
Meetings: 2 times per year
Administrator: Kristine Hamick, CMP
Phone: 847-483-6430

Membership Qualifications: Manufacturing or supplying raw materials to mutual customers who are in the Printed Circuit Board Manufacturing and/or Processing Industry.
Services Provided: Reporting cycle 4 times per year, Express Alerts
Meetings: Quarterly
Administrator: Mike Bowman, CGA
Phone: 314-677-2801

Membership Qualifications: Membership is open to any qualified manufacturer who is primarily engaged in the manufacturing of pressure sensitive papers, films, or inks
Services Provided: Reporting cycle 3 times per year, express alerts
Meetings: February, June and October
Administrator: Themis Vlahos, CCE
Phone: 847-483-6428

Membership Qualifications: Manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers of products and/or services who sell to the construction industry.
Services Provided: Three reports per year, express alerts
Meetings: Two meetings and one conference call per year
Administrator: Rochelle Wilson
Phone: 314-677-2803

Membership Qualifications: A company whose primary business is manufacturing or importing products sold under their own name or trade style & factoring companies
Services Provided: Monthly reports, express alerts
Meetings: February, May, August, and November
Administrator: Lillian Novak
Phone: 847-483-6478

Membership Qualifications: Manufacturers of electrical products who market their products nationally or have a major reqional presence in the U.S. or Canada
Services Provided: Quarterly reports, express alerts
Meetings: Quarterly
Administrator: Mary McCann
Phone: 847-483-6424

Membership Qualifications: Manufacturers of arms and ammunition who sell to wholesalers, jobbers and distributors.
Services Provided: Reporting 3 times per year, quarterly DSO and express alerts
Meetings: 3 times per year
Administrator: : Kristine Hamick, CMP
Phone: 847-483-6430

Membership Qualifications: Fully integrated, electric arc/melting steel producers who regularly manufacture and market broad product ranges of flat rolled commodities in a facility located in North America.
Services Provided: Reporting cycle 5 times per year, Express Alerts
Meetings: 5 meetings per year
Administrator: : Kristine Hamick, CMP
Phone: 847-483-6430

Membership Qualifications: Distribution of institutional products to end users such as hotels, restaurants, educational institutions and healthcare facilities. Annual sales volume in excess of $200 million and multi-state coverage.
Services Provided: Reporting cycle 4 times per year, Express Alerts
Meetings: Quarterly
Administrator: Mike Bowman, CGA
Phone: 314-677-2801

Membership Qualifications: Any firm which manufactures, sells and distributes garage doors and/or operating devices or allied product lines
Services Provided: Monthly report, express alerts, quarterly DSO survey
Meetings: 3 times per year
Administrator: Mary McCann
Phone: 847-483-6424

Membership Qualifications: Manufacturers with a national account base selling to home centers. Members must maintain a full time credit function
Services Provided: Quarterly reports, express alerts,
Meetings: February, May, August, and November
Administrator: Lillian Novak
Phone: 847-483-6478

Membership Qualifications: Manufacturing and/or distributing supplies or services to the Home Healthcare market. Provide at least $50 million of sales, or financing, to the Home Healthcare industry.
Services Provided: Reporting cycle 4 times per year, Express Alerts
Meetings: Quarterly
Administrator: Mike Bowman, CGA
Phone: 314-677-2801

Membership Qualifications: Distributors of seed and young plants
Services Provided: Reporting 2 times per year, quarterly DSO and express alerts
Meetings: January and July
Administrator: Themis Vlahos, CCE
Phone: 847-483-6428

Membership Qualifications: Provide a product or service directly to lawn and garden dealers and have annual sales in excess of $5 million.
Services Provided: Reporting cycle 3 times per year, Express Alerts
Meetings:  3 meetings per year
Administrator: Mike Bowman, CGA
Phone: 314-677-2801

Membership Qualifications: Manufacturers and/or suppliers of leisure living products whose primary business is supplying product to retail stores on a national spectrum and to factoring companies
Services Provided: Monthly reports, express alerts
Meetings: June, and September (in conjunction with the Casual Furniture Show in Chicago)
Administrator: Themis Vlahos, CCE
Phone: 847-483-6428

Membership Qualifications: Sell to customers in the manufactured housing, recreational vehicle, trailer and/or marine industries.
Services Provided: Reporting cycle 6 times per year, Express Alerts
Meetings:  6 meetings per year
Administrator: Mike Bowman, CGA
Phone: 314-677-2801

Membership Qualifications: Member must operate substantially as a meat packer or meat processor and must have sales of at least $300 million annually derived from meat packing or meat processing to non-affiliated companies.
Services Provided: Reporting cycle 4 times per year, Express Alerts
Meetings: Quarterly
Administrator: Mike Bowman, CGA
Phone: 314-677-2801

Membership Qualifications: Manufacturers of metal buildings and components
Services Provided: Monthly reporting, Quarterly DSO, express alerts
Meetings: February, June, and September
Administrator: Themis Vlahos, CCE
Phone: 847-483-6428

Membership Qualifications: Producer and/or distributor of ferroalloys, mineral ores and/or products refined there from or used in the manufacturing process of refractory products or other alloys used in/or selling into the steel industry.
Services Provided: Quarterly reports
Meetings: Quarterly
Administrator: Carol Rauch, CGA 
Phone: 865-850-8691

 

Membership Qualifications: Company must be a domestic metal producer, within copper and brass metal products
Services Provided: Consolidated reports four times per year, in conjunction with meetings, express alerts
Meetings: March, June, September, and December
Administrator: Themis Vlahos, CCE
Phone: 847-483-6428

Membership Qualifications: Manufacturers, distributors and importers of musical instruments or equipment, or their captive finance companies
Services Provided: Monthly reports, weekly alert
Meetings: One annual meeting in January in conjunction with trade show
Administrator: Mary McCann
Phone: 847-483-6424

Membership Qualifications: Manufacturing and/or distributing supplies or services to nursing homes.
Services Provided: Reporting cycle 4 times per year, Express Alerts
Meetings:  Quarterly
Administrator: Mike Bowman, CGA
Phone: 314-677-2801

Membership Qualifications: Manufacturers or converters that supply product to paper, paperboard or corrugated users whose employee is directly responsible for credit.
Services Provided: Quarterly reports, express alerts
Meetings: March, June, September, and December
Administrator: Kristine Hamick, CMP
Phone: 847-483-6430

Membership Qualifications: A company whose primary business is manufacturing or importing plumbing, pipe and heating products
Services Provided: Quarterly reports, express alerts
Meetings: February, May, August, and November
Administrator: Lillian Novak
Phone: 847-483-6478

Membership Qualifications: Manufacturers and/or distributors of professional apparel and related accessories
Services Provided: Monthly reports, express alerts
Meetings: April and October
Administrator: Kristine Hamick, CMP
Phone: 847-483-6430

Membership Qualifications: Steel mills located in USA or Canada, Integrated Steel Producers, Mini Mills, Rolling Mill.
Services Provided: Consolidated report 5 times per year, express alerts
Meetings: February, April, June, September, and November
Administrator: Kristine Hamick, CMP
Phone: 847-483-6430

Membership Qualifications: Open to any manufacturer that markets its products nationally through power tool and accessory distributors or wholesalers.
Services Provided: Quarterly reports, express alerts
Meetings: March, July, and November
Administrator: Mary McCann
Phone: 847-483-6424

Membership Qualifications: Manufacturers of trucks, truck bodies, accessories and waste equipment.
Services Provided: Reporting cycle four times per year, express alerts
Meetings: April, July, and October
Administrator: Themis Vlahos, CCE
Phone: 847-483-6428

Membership Qualifications: Manufacturers and distributors of underground utility supplies
Services Provided: Quarterly reports, express alerts
Meetings: March, June, September, and December
Administrator: Themis Vlahos, CCE
Phone: 847-483-6428

Membership Qualifications: Manufacturers of water and waste water products. Annual sales volume must be at least 20 million dollars and 75% of their sales to underground contractors, municipalities or related distributors of utility construction products
Services Provided: Quarterly reports, express alerts
Meetings: January, April, July, and October
Administrator: Kristine Hamick, CMP
Phone: 847-483-6430

Membership Qualifications: Any company which is classified as a stocking distributor of metal products directly or through its parent or affiliated company. Annual US sales volume of $65M or more, with $40M of those sales in the northeast region (with a base of 150 customers in the Northeast). Must be in business for three or more years.
Services Provided: Quarterly reports
Meetings: Quarterly
Administrator: Carol Rauch, CGA
Phone: 865-850-8691