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In Arkansas, Lowe's opened a Hot Springs store and broke ground for a Jonesboro unit with work due to start on a Fayetteville location to replace a Springdale store a Richmond,Ya^,Inwek "mega-store" will open next $unmer or fall; an Alexandria, La., relocation site has been selected; a Savannah, Ga., relocation unit opened and plans for a Durhnm, N.C., storc were dropped ...
Stine Lumber Co. relooated its DeRidder, La., store to new 45,000 sq. ft. quarters with an Aug. 16 grand opening, Jay Stine remains mgr. ... Home Depot, which will build in Cary and Guilford (Greensboro), N.C., shopped for a Dallas, Tir., site and boughtproperty in Aflanta, Ga ...
Builders Warehous e acquired Heber Builders Supply, Heber Springs, Ar. ... Midwest Lumber Co. closed its Van Buren, Ar., unit, consolidating operations at Fort SmittL Ar.
Buzick Lumber, Bardstown, Ky., is now open Sundays
Bobbie Sue Chewning, wife of Leroy Chewning, owner of Ambrose Home Depot, Hopkinsville, Ky., opedfunbrosia, a8{den shop, in Hopkinsville ...
Scotty's, Bayonet Point" Fl., was evacuated when a brush fire came within 80 yards of the store
Hone Quarters Warehouse, Ger raantown, Tn, initiafed a wedding resistry ... Moore's Lumber & B;iWin:g Supplies received a 19913 Retailer of the Year award ... Home Depot was named Top Public Company of the Year by Business Atlattta magazine
Paty Co., Piney Flats, T[., and TCInras Grcup, Knoxville, Tn., are developing "The Paty Promise" advertising campaign ...
Home Quarters Warehouse, Mrginia Beact\ Va-, hired Amold Fortuna Lawner & Cabot td agency, Boston, Ma. ... locating McDonald's fast food outlets in Hone Depot stores is under considerafion...
Cotter & Co., Chicago, Il., has pos@oned moving the company's national headquarters Central Kentucky Supply, Lexington, Ky., auctioned equipment, materials and real estate Aug. 21
Annivslsar'i es:. Buildcr's Supply, Hopewell, V&, 90th ...
Wm. Cameron & Co., Dallas, Tx., acquired Wholesale BuiWing Materials, an AlbuquerEre, N.M., roofing wholesaler with $4 million in sales per year, and White Water Building Products, $12 million annual sales, in Cincinnati, Oh., and Indianapolis, In ...
Georgia- Pacfic acquired the Roxboro, N.C., Arrcwood manufacturing facility ftom Fhrcboad Technologies Corp. (see story p. 15) ... Pre-Cuts, North Carolina Div. of Alpine Engineercd Products, Inc., Laurinburg, N.C., was acquired by Universal Forest Prodncu Inc. ... Umphlett lttnber Co., Moncks Corner, S.C., is closing...
Timbe r Ttader s International has relocated to Rodanthe, N.C., ftom Glen Allen, Va- ... Snnewall Innber Co., Ashlan4 Va-, formerly an Ervac Inc. div., is now Stonewall Lumber and Remanufacturing, Harry Ferguson Jr., pres.; Jordan McGuire, Lee Ferguson, Daniel Fisher, Mark Cobb and Swanson Ferguson traders
Ge orgia- Pacrfc has permanently closed its Ellabell, Ga., sawmill McShan Lwber Co., McShan,
Al., will start up e new Eimmer with optimizet aN a new green lumber sort€r h Dec. md a secod optimize<l edger by May 1,1994, all partof a$3 millbnrygr&...
Clusrye&e Corp., Rtchmon( Va, bas agr€ed ln pdrfde b s€ll Universal Fotesc Prodtrcts, htc. substandally all assets of tb ftrmer Chesapeake Wood Treatirrg Co., including Frederlcksburg, Va., Elizabeth Clty, N.C., and Holly HlU, S.C., fed[des, terntnating a previous asset pucbase agreement with A. c. Dutton Corp. shareholdas
GAF Roofing Manulacturkg Corp. and G-I Hddings Inc. Eminated their egreement to trrchase Georgia-Prcifcb roofrng manufacruring buslrc ...
Makita Corp. of America, Bufor0 Ga-, addd a lfl),ffi sq. ft. building ... KingsInd Mncts Co., L subsidiary of Clotox Co., sold its grill bu$6 to Porebh Metals Corp., Louisville, Ky. ... Amana Refrigeratiot, Inc., wlll consolidate Eadng and air condtioning div. operatlons at lts Fayeseville, Tn, plant
Arms trong WorU Industrics recdved a Stcch awud frr qoetlence in advertislng sheet vinyl flooring ... Bruce Hardwood Floors, Dallas, TL, has locbd in all factory fini$d trodrct pies for the remainder of fu yer ...
Tenple-Inlod lrrc., Diboll" Tl., hul second quarter building prcducts etrnings of f22.7 million, up from $12.1 million last year ... Home Depot had a 32% rise tn second quarter eanriqs
National Nail Corp., Grand Rapids, Mi., opened a new lroduction facility in Macoq Ga. Internatiorul Har&wd Mucts Associuion moved to 4214 KIng St. W., Alexandria" Yt 223O2, tel$rone (703) &tC6696
Honshg sacrs declired 2J% ln July (latest figs.) to an annual adjusted rale of 1212,W... single family stdts slid 1.7%; muldfamily 9.5% p€rmits werc up 3Vo stafis increasdZSVo inthe South.
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