NEWS BRIEFS

from Building Products Digest - December 1996

Retail forecast: Will you sink or swim in'97? 'R

Retailers

Pelican Cos., Conway, S.C., has atreed to buy 16-unit Builderway, Greenville, S.C.; Builderway pres. Newell Lavoy will join tbe Pelican board and continue overseeing 15 stotes, with the Florence, S.C., yard closed

I-ane Snr l*mber Co., lrc. tns sold its 14,000-sq. ft. Jefferson, Tx., remanufacturing plant and acquircd a 64,000'sq. ft. facility in Longview, Tx., where it is installing new equipment; in July Lone Star was acquired by Van Dusen lunber Inc., San Antonio, Tx....

Nonhsid.e Lumber & Salvage, Poteau, Ok., has closed

MiIl Creek ltrmber, Jenks, Ok., plans to remodel and expand

Carter Lumber, Kent, Oh., closed its Elkton, Va, yard ...

Wilson-J ohnson Lumber Co., Heavener, Ok., has closed, with the property auctioned off; owner Charlie V/ilson, who founded the company with Pat Johnston 42 years ago, has retired

Dylce Indastries closed its retail ope.ration in Hot Springs, Ar. ...

Scottyb this month will open is l3th Orlando, Fl., arca locationan ll,00Gsq. ft. hardwarc store in University Park Shopping center-and its 7th Tampa, Fl., facility-a 7,700-sq. ft. hardware store in Westgate Plaza ...

Wiclc,es Luntber, Morehead City, N.C., lost $300 to a safecracker suspected of at least a dozen recent burglaries ...

Home Quarters, Jackson, Ms., blames the new logal Home Depot for starting the false rumor that it will close ...

Home Depot opened new stores last month in Jeffersontown, Ky.; Rorne, Ga., and Little Rock, Ar.; plans openings this month in Nashville, Tn.; San Antonio, Tx.; Jupiter, Fl.; Johnson City, Tn., and a relocation in Dallas, Tx., and agreed to pay $9 million for 2O acres in East Memphis, Tn.

Turley Hardware & Lumber Ca. b long vacant T\rrley, Ok., building burned

Lowe's Cos. has opened a 120,00Gsq. ft. store in Lake City, Fl., store mgr. John Michaud, operations mgr. Charlas Speer, and 150,000-sq. ft. superstores in Killeen, Tx., store mgr. Richard Salinas, and Albany, Ga., store mgr. Charles White, replacing an 85,000-sq. ft. store destroyed by fire in April ... Lowe's has begun construction on 17 acres in Regency (Jacksonville), Fl., and plans a store on 15.5 acres in South Dallas, Tx. ...

Wholesalers & Manufacturcrc

Cameron Ashley Building Ptoducts, Dallas, Tx., has agreed to purchase certain assets of insulation and roofing products distrib ntor Boyd Distributors, Calgary, Alberta Canada...

Moreland Company USA, Sarasota FI., has opened a planing and drying board mill, International Wood Products USA, Memphis, Tn.; Timothy Zirkle, Pres....

Gilnan Building Prcducts, St. Marys, Ga., has acquired Perry Ittntber, Perry, Fl., Ray Veal stays on to handle sales for the Perry mill...

US Tnnber Co., Boise, Id., has installed new machinery in the former Shwnons bnber Co.facility, Booneville, Ar., and begun manufacturing and distributing southern pine boards and pattern stock...

Willamene hfustrbs has relocated the MDF sale.s staffftrom its Malvern, Ar., plant to regional offices in Ruston, La

Tlrcnna-Tra Corp. fu acquired comrcrcial doq md frme maker H.M.F. Manufacturcrs, Inc., Wilnington, N.C.

O s ram Sylvania's Versaillcs, Ky., Ghss Tcclaobgics plnt hrs been ISO 90(D certifid ...

RandaU Brctlun, Ittc., Admtr, Ga, has acquircd fm ncry &livery trucks on which it wilt adncrtise its local co-slionsorship of This OA House d Hnvtinu ...

Gibson-Honans Co. has purchased Sealant Techrpbgy, inc., Houston, Tx., from Mark Lcc, Chris Jamism and Stcre Inbry ...

Weyeflucuscr Co. plms to om: stnrct a cardboud plant employing 30G'500 near Hope, Ar., by lrtc next year ,.. Weycrtmscropcocd a 400,000-sq. ft. OSB plant, rcportedly the world's largest, in Sutton, W.V., with mnual cryrity exceeding 5fl)million sq. ft ...

Tingas HiU, Charlotte, N.C., won Best of Show for its Ingcrsoll-Rand ad campaign and another award for Balpl Inber ads at arecent Busiress Mdcting Association ProAd awards banquet...

New Web site: National P articlcboard Association and PB -MDF Institute, www.pbmdf. com...

National Association of Hone Builders projects 1.459 million starts in 1996,the highst lcvel of the decade, and a 7% dcclirc to 1.352 millim ncxt year ...

Housing starts in Oct. (lalest figs.) fell 5% to a seasonally djusted amual rae of 1.336 million ... single fmily stans slipped 4.6%, while multi-family dwellings with 5+ unis droppod 12.5% building permits dropped 2.7% to a seasonally adjusbd annual rate of 1.361 million.

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