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BMC West, Boise, Id., has assumed ownership of O'Malley's, El Paso, Tx., but will retain the name at least temporarily...Home Quarters Warehouse will open a store in Hickory Ridge Commons (Memphis), Tn., next spring...
Home Depot opened a Bellevue, Tn., store with plans to add a unit in Franklin, Tn.; started planning for a Loudoun, Va., stor€; rcquested rezonings for two sites near Decatur, Ga.; announced early 1992 closings for Doraville and Marietta, Ga., units which are being replaced by other stores; and moved a West Dade, Fl., warehouse disFibution center to Sunrise...
Inweb, which will open a store at Potomac Mills Center (Woodbridge), Va., inaugurated a Chantilly, Va., unit, and is relocating Dothan, Al., Jackson, Tn., Lumberton and Rocky Mount, N.C., and West Monroe, La. , operations...
Joe and Diane Garrison acquired Hennessey Lumber Co., Hennessey, Ok., from Robert Everitt, renaming it Garrison Lumber Co, Inc....Roy Johnson Lumber Co., Hennessey, Ok., was acquired completely by Danell and Gwen Lee who had owned it in partnership with her parents Roy and Ruby Johnson since 1980...
McCoy Lumber Co. is building a new store in West Monroe. La.... Henry Herder liquidated Herder's, Weimar, Tx., ending 118 years oi operation and his 42 vear associaWeimar, e ll8 vears of operation yew association with the firm...
84 Lumber expects to move its Ashland, Ky., operation into a new complex early in Jan....
Merchandise and lumber from Norriss Bros, Lumber Co., Wchita Falls, Tx., which closed last March, were sold at public auction in a foreclosure sale by order of Bank One Tbxas...
Seiling Lumber Co., Seiling, Ok., was renamed Sander Supply following its purchase from Frank Everitt by Shane and Teresa Sander...J. n. White Hardware and Lumber Co., Jonesboro, Ar., moved to a new location...
Georgia-Pacific is reorganizing its building products group into four areas: building products manufacturing, timber, disribution and specialty operations and chemicals; transition is expected to be completed by April 1...
Houston Woodtech, Houston, Tx., has a new wood treating facility in San Antonio.. .Connor Distributors, Fort Worth, Tx., now has an industrial reman operation and distribution yard in Alamo, Tx.
G. A. P. Roofing Co., Pryor Creek, Ok., is expanding its MidAmerica Industrial Park location by 12,000 sq. ft. in a $400,000 project to be completed in early'92... The Stanley Works will combine the operations of its Home Automation, Electronics and Door Systems divisions in the United States and Canada into a single business, Stanley Door Systems Division...
koh thailand, and Fbtfl@r S.nL, Fiorano, Italy, will join to manufacUre and mar*ct ccramic tile in the U.S. with Sian Ccment purchasing l0% of Finfloor which is acquiring 15% of TtleCera, Inc., Clarksville, TD., a Sdara subsidiary...
Kitchen Cab inet Manufacturcrs Associatbn reported a year+o-date dccrease in sales of 9% through Sept. (latest figs.)...
Industry rcpr€sentatives testified that the creation of new wilderness, scenic areas and a national recreation area on the Chattahoochee Natiotul Forest in Georgia would reduce cun€nt sales levels by nearly l0%,..Conmercial Lumber Sales, Inc.,Little Rock, Ar., donated pressure treated laminated wood panels to the USDA Forest Service for a 90 ft. long bridge...
Tlre National Association of Investors Corp. selected Home Depot, Inc., as its l99l Growth Company of the Year...USG Cotp. had third quarter operating profit of $38 million on net sales of $445 million...Ply Gem Industries had third quarter record sales of more than $160 million...
In a patent infringement suit , a New York court ruled Tornado Products, Inc. has sole rights to its patented chipper/shre dder... Mannington Resilient Flooring will donate vinyl flooring for all Habitat for Humandry homes built in the U.S. during 1992...
Georgia- Pacific, Atlanta, Ga., was ordered to pay a criminal fine of $5 million after pleading guilty to tar( evasion in overstating the value of swampland donated to a No. Fl. waste management district in 1984...
American Cabinet Inc., American Plywood and Builders Warehouse Association, Conway, Ar., were acquired by Omni Corp....
Siam Cernent Co., Ltd., Bang-
Housing starts for Oct. (latest figs.) were up 7 .3Vo to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.1 million...single farnily starts climbed 3.97o; multifamily 26.IVo .,. the South had a l0% increase.
