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Coleman's Lumber Yard, Harrodsburg, Ky., expects to open a new 5,000 sq. ft. showroom Oct | Foxvtonh-Galbraith ltmber Co., Pecos, Tx., recently remodeled...

Lowe's is issuing $250 million in notes due 2003 to finance storc expansions ... a replacement Lowe's three times larger than the previous store opened in Winctpster, Va- ...

Builders Square opened two stores in Puerto Rico with four more to follow ... Tulsa and Oklahoma City, Ok., units are remodeling to the BuiWers SEnrc Zprototype ... a Port Malabar, Fl., Biilders Square is dre in OcL

Home Quaners Warehous e units are adding bridal registries at their service desks Lawson-Crain HWI Building Center, West Liberty, Ky., had a grand opening to celebrate doubling the size of the showroom...

Builders Warehouse Association,Conway, Ar., expects to open as many as six stores in central and western Ar. by mid-1994 ... Farmers True Value Hardware Supply, Grayson, Ky., relocated, with lumber, hardware and gift departments now occupying the samebuilding...

Associated Drywall & Building Supply, Louisville, Ky., opened I-aGrange Drywall & Home Center in LaGrange, Ky., Dan Williams mgr. Ace Builders Lumber Co., San Angelo, Tx., closed...

Roanoke Lumber, Roanoke Rapids, N.C., opened a distribution center in Weldon, N.C. ... Home Depot is moving its lumber distribution center to Arlington, Tk., from GrandPrairie, Tx. ...

Roper Brcs. Itntber Co., Inc., Petersburg, Va., which opened a special installed sales stpwroom last year, plans to expand installed sales ... Moores Lumber and Building Supplies' P€tef,sburg, Va-, location is being used to film the chain's tv promotions

Epperson htmber Sales, Inc., Statesville, N.C., was named 1993 Small Business of the Year by tlr Greater Statesville Chamber of Commerce and the Mitchell Community College Small Business Cmter

Loute'*, Manassas, Va., sponsored a parking lot health fair to raise money for local healh agencies ... Richards Gtonp, Dallas, Tx., will produce Home Depot's radio and television advertising ...

Anniversari es: Stanley Works, l50th; Robinsonlttnber Co., New Orleans, La., l00th; Plasti-Kote, 70th; Contractors Supply, Gainesville, Fl., 3frlu Enap, hrc., Midlothian, Va-, 25th

Lee Roy Jordan Redwood Lwnber Co., Dallas and Houston, Tx., received best single booth display honors at the Oklahoma htmbermmb Associaionb Spring Mart '93 ABTco's Roaring River, N.C., plant was named "tbe hardboard industry's safest wortplace" by the American Hardboard Association

C ellwood Products, Gaffney, S.C., recognizd Morgan Distrihutors, West Columbia, S.C., for outstanding 1992 sales gfowth S hervtin-Willians' Innnity Paints and Dutch Boy's Renaissance Paint received 1993 Drummer Awards for packaging Wilsonart, Tbmple, Tl., contributed fixtures for the local Ronald McDonald House expansion .,.Celotex Corp,, Tbmpa" Fl., will distibute Bqtiunn OMyXe. nrc.'s ridge vedldon qm tmder the Celotex name ... DIFI Windows, /nc., Rocky Moutrq Va, rcquired Tlianglc Distrihtnn, Tlrpelo, Ms Chcsapeakc Hadwood Prodtrcts, Inc., Chesryeake, Va-, purchased Plywood Panels, Inc., Norfolk, Va

Dnttar lze's Wood nesentlry Div., Montreal, Canda, wc pld July 1 to Stella-tones Inc., t Canadian corporation resently formed by m ltallan/Scoldsh or pany, Alastair Millr is pes. d CIEO...

National Gypsun Co., Dellls, Tt., emerged ftom Ctry. ll b.ntruptcy with a $75 million th€eyear revolvlng credlt line ftom Gcneral Ebctric Capital Cor?. (see smry p. 46) ... nf Rayia win acquire M Ch@pidt htanational sawmill in Swainsborc, Ga, and the flau mlrl at Imber City, Ga

Enterprise Compuur Systanq, Inc., Greenville, S.C., expocts !o aoqthe fu lumber ed pape ds" tribution accounts of compuPower lzc., @lumHr, Md., Aug. 16 ... Statcs Irrdt st/ies &rc., will manufacane a llrc of preflntM ready-to-assemble wood drawers fv BHK

Georgia-Pacific's buildlng products business eerned record second qurEr trofits of $202 million...

American Wood Council's Metric Task Group approved updating the T-umber and W@d Products Metric Plrnnlng Package" ... t}re Florida Saprcme Court nrled bmeowus can't srp material neruftcfi€rs and sppIers for onstrtdon &ftcts uless they purchased the materisls direc0y ftom M ...

Housing sutrts ln Jure (latest figs.) were a rcpeat of Itf,ay c an annual mte of 1,254,(m udts ... single family sbffi Hl while multis rose building pernits fell 1.3% ... starts declined in the Soultr ... stes fur frst $x noffis wereup l.l%ftom 1W2...

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