NEWS BRIEFS

Retailers

CCC Lumber Co., Booneville, Ms., has closed

Mill Creek Lumber & Supply, Tirlsa, Ok., added a 15,000-sq. ft. carpet store in Stillwater, Ok. ...

Cheek Lumber Co., Goldston, N.C., has closed ...

Red River Lumber Ca. moved into new quarters on Highway 71 No. in Texarkana, Tx.; Jim Cunningham, gen. mgr.

Scotty's will open a 28,000-sq. ft. hardware store late this month in Largo, Fl.

Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ms., has closed

84 Lumber Co. opened yards last month in Pioneer Village, Campbellsville and Nicholasville, Ky....

Lowe's Cos. opened a new 150,000-sq. ft. store in Amarillo, Tx. (store mgr. Sid Ducharme), will open a 131,577-sq. ft. unit July 4 in Bryan, Tx., and received preliminary approval to build in West Frankfort, Ky. ...

Lowe's, with 60 stores under construction, will add a 120,000sq. ft. unit to anchor a 55-acre power center in Salisbury, N.C., to open in mid-1997; new 130,000sq. ft. stores in Conway, Ar.; on 18 acres in Russellville, Ar., for a late l996lear|y 1997 opening, and on 23 acres in Bartlesville, Ok., and 150,000-sq. ft. stores on 25 acres in South Tulsa, Ok., and on 18 acres in Huntersville, N.C., to replace the Mooresville, N.C., hardware store ...

McCoy's is relocating its Bryan, Tx., store from Texas 6 to FM 108 early this summer

Home Depot opened stores last month in Murfreesboro, Tn.; Corpus Christi, Tx., and two in Houston, Tx. (one a relocation), and will open a 131,000-sq. ft. store next month in Gretna, La., and will add a 28,000-sq. ft. garden center once the existing 80,000-sq. ft. store is leveled ...

Home Depot has begun construction on a 103,00Gsq. ft. store with 28,000-sq. ft. outdoor garden center in Little Rock, Ar., its frst store in the state, for a fall opening, is considering a second store in Little Rock, and is building a new unit in Jackson, Ms.

Wholesalers & Manufacturers

Burk Lumber Sales, San Antonio, Tx., has moved into the former Slaughter Bros. 2-112-acre yard, carrying inventory and doing reloads

Klumb Lumber Ca., Jackson, Ms., has opened a distribution yard in Tyler, Tx.; Steve Funchess, mgr....

Danville Plywood Corp., with two main plants in Danville, Va., and a mill in DeQueen, Ar., has agreed to sell its assets to Columbia Forest Products, Portland, Or.; no price revealed ...

Willamette Industries is modernizing its Chester, S.C., plywood plant, enabling one of its two veneer lathes to better utilize smaller logs

Dominance, Inc., DBA Pan Pacffic, opened a new panel manufacturing plant in Hope, Ar. ...

James Hardie Building Products is building the world's largest fiber cement siding and roofing plant in Clebume, Tx., for a1997 opening...

Dallas Wholesale Builders Supply, Inc., Dallas, Tx., has formed International Trading Group-Millwork Division, El Paso, Tx., specializing in solid and fingerjointed mouldings, interior jambs and exterior frames; James Vanden Berghe in charge

Georgia-Pacific averted a potential antitmst challenge from the Justice Department over its planned acquisition of Domtar /nc.'s gypsum division by agreeing to sell wallboard plants in Wilmington, De., and Buchanan, N.Y.

Mobil Chemical Co.'s Composite Products Division (Trex plastic lumber) has relocated Hq. to Winchester, Va., from Norwalk, Ct....

Hoover Treated Wood Prcducts, Thomson, Ga., has established a World Wide Web site at http:ll www.hooverfrtw.com ...

Vtoco Industries has been formed by Jesus Martinez, Glasco Industries, and Enrique "Leo" Pino, Pino Windows, with a new manufacturing plant and showroom in Miami, Fl.

Meyer Laminates, Riviera Beach, Fl., has acquired Kitchen Pak, Inc. and Kitchen Pak of Raleigh Inc. ...

Collins & Aikman Corp., Charlotte, N.C., will spin off its Imperial Wallcoverings, Inc. subsidiary to shareholders

Belcnert Corp-'s steel wire products plant in Van Buren, Ar., has received ISO 9002 certification

Louisiana-Paciftc Corp., with three manufacturing plants in Florida, donated $250,000 to Florida A&M University, Tallahassee...

Anniversaries ... AFCO Industries, 50th ... Moulding Associates, Inc., Gadand, Tx., l5th ...

Housing starts in March (latest figs.) slipped 3.9Vo to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.45 million, the steepest decline in a year, due to a double-digit drop in multi-family starts.

New Tenant For Old ASI Site

Builder's Supply & Lumber Co. has moved into the former Alpine Structures facility in Oxford, N.C., to use it as a distribution center and light manufacturing plant.

Alpine Structures' parent Trus Joist MacMillan closed the facility early last year, relocating production of ASI engineered wood products to newer, higher speed facilities.

After some renovation and repairs, Builder's Supply will use the 55,000sq. ft. facility to fabricate and assemble window and door frames.

Headquartered in Frederick, Md., Builder's Supply has additional manufacturing facilities in Frederick, La Plata, Md.; Culpeper, Va.; Charlotte, N.C., and Orlando, Fl.

Cameron Adds Fastener Co.

Cameron Ashley Building Products, Inc., Dallas, Tx., has agreed to purchase Jett Supply Co., Inc. from its parent Maurice Pincoffs Co., Inc., Houston, Tx., an international marketing and distribution firm.

Jett Supply, based in Pueblo, Co., with branches in Chicago, Il., and Houston, Tx., is a wholesale dis- tributor of nails, fasteners and fencing products in Tx., N.M., Co., Il. and 1l surrounding states, with 1995 sales of approximately $25 million.

Home Depot To Add 90 In '96

Home Depot plans to open 90 stores during fiscal 1996, including 29 stores in the Northeast, 25 in the Southeast, 14 in the West, 17 in the Midwest and five in Canada. according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

In the fiscal year ending Jan.28, the company added 83 stores, with 20 in the Northeast, 22 in the Southeast, 16 in the Midwest and 16 in the West. Since 1990, it has increased its store count by an average of 24Vo annually.

Home Depot currently operates 423 stores in 31 states, with about half of its units in California, Georgia, Texas and Florida. Despite adding the greatest number of stores this year in the Northeast, spokesman Jerry Shields says long-term expansion will concentrate in the Midwest.