After a period of contraction, the U.S. education construction market stabilized in 2014, growing 1% to $78 billion, according to Market Insights LLC. This year got off to a slow start, actually ...

In 1898, the Ohio Pail Company, which would later become Johnsonite, started manufacturing wooden dairy pails in the Amish town of Middlefield, Ohio. As the company progressed, it shifted its ...

Piet Dossche, founder and CEO of US Floors, didn’t hail from a business environment. His father was a judge in his home country of Belgium, so he grew up in an academic household. He was an ...

Dalton, GA, July 17, 201-Beaulieu Group, doing business as Beaulieu Group LLC, has announced that it has commenced a formal proceeding to restructure its balance sheet to better position itself ...

R oppe celebrated its 60th anniversary on July 18, not with bigwigs in black tie sipping champagne, but with executives, employees, retirees and their families at an all-American picnic, replete ...

Lancaster, PA, November 8--Armstrong World Industries took a painful step Thursday, and raised a painful question. The company announced it would end production of commercial flooring at its ...

Dalton, GA, August 2--The 26-year-old daughter of Dalton carpet retailer Buddy Parker was killed by a sniper early Monday morning as she slept in her father's house. Authorities said Tara Swilley ...

Dalton, GA, October 26--Steve Ladd has joined Thomas Industries, LLC as senior vice president sales and marketing. Ladd has over 26 years experience in the sale and marketing of carpet, including ...

Fostoria, OH, September 9--Roppe Holding Company, the parent company of Roppe Corporation, based in Fostoria, Ohio and Flexco, based in Tuscumbia, Alabama, has announced the relocation of its ...

Waregem, Belgium, June 10--Various members of the De Clerck family have signed a statement of intent and are currently conducting negotiations on setting up a new joint industry group. The parties ...

Greensboro, NC, Nov. 13--Burlington Industries Inc. ended its nearly two-year stay in bankruptcy yesterday with little fanfare and what its new owner believes is a viable strategy in the highly ...

Atlanta, GA, Feb. 6--In one of the broadest efforts so far to link the nation's aging workforce with available jobs, AARP and Home Depot Inc. are forming a national hiring partnership, Friday's ...