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Berger & Co. , El Paso, Tx., and Sacramento, Ca.. has been named exclusive sales agent for MCG, one of the largest moulding manufacturers in Mexico (see p. 46 for story)...

Tiu Io r- Rnm s e!- Co rp., Ly nchburg, Va.. has received two awards for outstanding international sales including the 1986 Export Merit Award from the Virginia District ExPort Council...

Hunter Fan Co., MemPhis, Tn.. has obtained a court order in Fort Worth. Tx.. for Davintport, Inc.,to immediately stop marketing ceiling fan light kits under the "Hunter" name...

Lowe's held early summer grand openings for a relocated Lynchburg. Va.. store and retrofitted stores in Whitesburg, Ky., West Columbia and Charleston, 5C.,. McCoy's Buiding Supply Centers has opened its 68th Texas store in Plainview..

Ikllogg Supply Co., Manteo, NC., has opened is third unit, a 16,500 s,q. ft. home center in Duck, NC. ...the company will celebrate its 40th anniversary later this Year...

Scot4,'5, Winter Haven, Fl., Plans to participate in a test of point-of-sale video svstems at selected stores in conj unction w ith Owe ns - Cornin g Fiberglas ...Smalls Home Center, Norfolk, Va.. founded in 1919, has closed with the retirement of owner John Small...

Handy Dan's Home Center, Waco. Tx., has reopened as H. D. lty'arehouse after extensive remodeling and product expansion. ..Scotm s will be an anchor store in the Thmarac Square West Shopping Center Planned in Thmarac, Fl.

Foxwo rt h - Galb rai th Lu mb e r Co. has moved is corporate headquarters into Synergy hrk on the Univenity of Texas campus in Dallas. ..Home Depot Inc. , Atlanta, Ga., has concluded a $32 million sale and leaseback arrangement for six of its stores...

The VisadorCo. , JasPer, Tx., has opened a warehouse in Upland, Ca.

,4vein ltmher Co. Inc. has added a $2 million boiler and dry kiln system to its Clarksville, Tn., plant...Sarn Care,- Lumber Co., Memphis, Tn., just celebrated its 5fth anniversary...

Allied Pllwood Corp., a Pl-,-*Gem Industies subsidiary. has opened distribution centers in Richmond. Va., and Houston, Tx. ...Atlos Hardv'are Ca. has acquired Oxv'all Tbol Co. from Easco Corp.'s hand tool div. including a warehouse in New Orleans, La., no price revealed...

DG Moudings has opened t\r/o new plants in Marion, Va. (see p. l7 for story). ..Morgan Products Ltd. has acquired Nicolai Co., Fortland, Or., (see p. l7 for story)...

Reichhold Chemicals /nc. plans in Hampton, S.C., and Houston, Tx., are among businesses recentlY acquired by FfL Industries, Burlington. Ontaio. .Temple -fostex opned a $20 million gypsum wallboard plant in Fletcher. Ok., last month, David F. Kellam, mgr....

Armstrong has completed a $2.8 million floor tile warehouse at its Jackson. Ms., plant with completion of a $8.6 million rotogravure tile production line set for early '87...

Triangle Corp., which has manufacturing facilities in Orangeburg, S.C., has formed a wholly owned subsidiary, Triangle Tbol Group, Inc. , ta manage sales. marketing and operations of the Diarnond Tbol and Horseshoe Co. and Utica Tool Co. subsidiaries...

Delman'a Sash & Door Co.,Barclay. Md., has opened a facilitY in Richmond. Va.. at 4605 Carolina Ave.. in the Fairgrounds Distribution Center...

Sclnefer fush & Door Co., Atlanta. Ga.. celebrated its 32nd anniversary with a buying show...Sw'ain Building Materials, Slidell, La., is marking is sixth year of operation.

M. W Snith lnnber Co., Jackson, Al., has been sold to Boise Cascade Corp. along with Allied Faper Inc.... Master Woodv,orking and Design Inc.. Toledo. Oh.. will move to knsacola, Fl., where they have purchased a former Boise Cascade Co. building and started a $2.5 million remodeling...

The NASCAR Grard Natiornl race car sponsored \ Cox Vy'ood Presening Co., Orangeburg, S.C., captut€d 4th place in the Road Atlanta race July 5. .John T. Cole & Associates, Inc. the forest products executive search and placement firm, has celebrated is 8th year in business...

Z)ckgraf Hardvnod Co., a 50 Year old Franklin. NC.. flooring manufrcturer. is back in operation in a new plant built to replace one destroyed S fire last Aug.; the company has been leasing a plant in Cleveland, Ga., for the past year...

Housing starts in June fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,845,000 units with single familY starts sliding 1.97o and multi-family starts rising 1.5 %...building permis rcseT% inthe south although nationwide they were down 2 .4%

DG Adds Two Plants

DG Mouldings has opened a $l million two-plant facility near division headquarters in Marion, Va.

The addition, which totals 80,000 square feet, brings DG's total plant manufacturing space to approximately 3/4 million square feet. Clearwood, a newly introduced, patented moulding product, will be manufactured in the plants which began production last month.

Morgan Acquires Nicolai Co.

Morgan Products Ltd. has acquired Nicolai Co., the nation's largest manufacturer of fir doors, in a move designed to further strengthen Morgan's market posi- tion in the wood panel door industry.

Morgan and Nicolai have signed a definitive stock purchase agreement to exchange 800,000 shares of Morgan common stock for all of the stock of Nicolai, a privately-held company headquartered in Portland, Or.

Nicolai has door manufacturins facilities in both Fortland and Springhe-lC, Or., and has a 210,000 sq. ft. plant under construction in L€xington, NC. The company had net sales of $52 million in 1985.

The purchase of Nicolai marks the second major acquisition announced by Morgan in less than six months. Earlier this year, they acquired Shasta Millwork ofWeed, Ca.

George T. Brophy, president and chief executive officer of Morgan, said the Nicolai acquisition will enable Morgan to move more aggressively into the Western and Southern markets. "It also provides us manufacturing flexibility to improve the efficiency and productivity ofour principal manufacturing facility in Oshkosh (Wi.)," he said.

Morgan reported 1985 sales of $265,279900, a gain of 18% over 1984 sales, while net income increased65% from $4.239,000 in 1984 to fi012,000 in 1985.

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