NEWS BRIEFS

Retailers

Yqydbjrdsplans to build a larger yard in SantaRosa, Ca., to replice its current nearby location ... -

Tualatin Vattey Builders Supply is converting eight stores to the HWI Do-it Express format, holding grand openings this month in Vancouver, Wa., and Gresham, Or.; next month in Aloha Or., and the rest during the summer ...

McGuire Lumber Co., Yakima, Wa., has purchased Open Door Prefinish, Yakima, and renamed it McGuire Custom Finish

Untsco Construction Materials, Inc., Seattle, Wa., Fairbanks and Anchorage, Ak., has overhauled its computer system ...

Furrow Building Materials has opened a new Albriquerque, N.M., store in a 77,000-sq. ft. former Wal-Mart to replace its store destroyed by fire in August ...

Alpine Mitt and Lumber Co., Stockton, Ca., closed days before its 66th anniversary, citing warehouse competition ...

Thurman Ind.ustries has subdivided 12,000-sq. ft. of its 40,000sq. ft. Great Falls, Mt., store into its second Home Center Liquidators unit...

Supply One is nearing completion on its 8th and larsest location in Klamath Falls, Or.] featuring a 92,254-sq. ft. store, 36,000-sq. ft. nursery and two-acre yard; mgr. Erik Steiner, asst. mgrs. Ron Richter and Larry Vaughn

Home Depot has selected a vacant 148,000-sq. ft. Emporium department store in Mountain View, Ca., as the site of its 5th Expo store

Wholesalers & Manufacturers

Lumber Products, Tualatin, Or., is building a 40,000-sq. ft. distribution facility in Spokane, Wa., to serve eastern Wa., western Mt. and northern Id.

Schaller Forest ProtluctsRedding, Ca., has closed; owner Dave Schaller is now with American Forest Products. working out of Redding

J.M. Thomas Forest Products plans to open a new pre-staining facility next month at its Ogden, Ut., Hq. ..,

Western American Forest Products has phased out the WAFP name and is going by Huttig Distribution, Rialto and Fresno, Ca.; Albuquerque, N.M., and Phoenix, Az. sister company PGL Building Products, now answering to PGL-Hul/lg, has no immediate plans to phase out the PGL name

Oregon Cedar Products, Springfield, Or., has permanently closed after 45 years ...

Pacific States Industries, the holding company that operates Redwood Empire, Morgan Hill, Ca., and Sierra Lumber and Empire Lumber, San Jose, Ca., has acquired a 70,000-sq. ft. historic bank building in San Jose for its corporate headquarters

Wey erhaeuser's proposed sale of its Klamath Falls, Or., operations to Roseburg Forest Products, Roseburg, Or., has collapsed (see story, p. 28) ...

Fort Vancouver Plywood Co.. Vancouver, Wa., the nation's oldest continuously operating softwood plywood mill. has closed (see story, p. 28) ...

Anau Wholesalers is building a 110,000-sq. ft. DC on 8 acres n6ar its existing Denver, Co., facility for a summer opening ...

Genstar Capital Partners II

L.P., Foster City, Ca., has agreed to buy Domtar Inc.'s decorative panels division for $94 million

Hedlund Lumber Co., Sacramento, Ca., and parent Steiner Lumber Co. have mersed into sister co. Sunriver Home"Center (see story, p. 25) .,.

Rnet Applications, Ltd., WoodIand Hills, Ca., has acquired the Systems, Services & Applications Division of Mtst Co.. Lrd.. Gardena, Ca. ,..

San Joaquin Valtey Hoo-Hoo Club #31, Fresno, Ca., has temporarily suspended activiries Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo CIub #2 has been inactive since last year

Anniversaries: Western Woods, Inc., Chico, C&.,25th ... SCR, Inc., Lake Oswego, Or., 20th ... Taylor Lumber Services Inc., Grand Terrace, Ca., 3rd ...

Georgia-Pacific Corp.'r 1995 net income nearly tripled to a record $1.02 billion; 4th quarter income rose 16.57o to a iecord $197 million

U niversal Forest Products' 1995 earnings rose 3IVe to a record $14.1 million despite a l57o drop in revenues ...

Louisianq- Pacific Corp.'s Ath quarter net income fell 68Vo to $26.8 million ...

BMC West Corp.'s 1995 sales rose 157o to $630.2 million, although net income fell 45Vo to $7.8 million; 4th quarter sales climbed 22Vo, net incbme fell 46Vo to $1.4 million

National Wood Window & Door Association has joined the WoodWorks communication program

Housing starts in Jan. (latest figs.) rose 4.4Vo to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.45 million starts dropped 5To in Dec., helping push new construction last year down 7.3Vo from 1994.