PMC Building Materials, a Marietta, Ga.-based dealer, named Gary Poulus as president. … Capital Lumber promoted Jeff Logue to division manager at its Healdsburg, Calif., location. Logue succeeds Jeff Howard, who retired after 19 years with the company. … Bruce Braaksma of Friesland, Wis.-based Royal Lumber Yards was recently honored as Lumber and Building Material Dealer of the Year at the Wisconsin Retail Lumber Association’s annual convention. … South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley chose Stier Building Supply in Irmo as the site for her news conference in April to announce that the state’s unemployment rate had fallen to 8.9% in March. Stier president Jon Stier praised the Haley Administration’s focus on job creation. ... Roswell (N.M.) Lumber Do it Center and Artesia (N.M.) Do it Center officially changed their names to Builders Do it Center. Bruce Ellis, president and CEO of Roswell Lumber Co., which owns both facilities, said the switch will “help us be ready for a brighter future.” … Madison Township Lumber & Supply, Matawan, N.J., is celebrating its 50th anniversary. … John Beeke, who founded Niagara Pre-Hung Doors in Fonthill, N.Y., in 1969, retired after 43 years in the business. Sons Tim, Jeff and Mark Beeke will run the company. … Boston Cedar hired Bethany Sawyer, formerly with the Northeastern Regional Lumber Association, as its director of new business development. In addition, Boston Cedar brought Paul Carter, formerly at Stock Building Supply and New England Building Supply, into its inside sales department. … Lumbermens Merchandising Corporation set up a partnership with Paint Sundries Solutions to provide products and service in the central and western U.S. … Silver Line Building Products, a unit of Andersen Corp., named CFO Phil Donaldson as its acting president. ... James Hardie Industries announced that Nigel Rigby, executive general manager of the company’s U.S. business, will leave June 12. Louis Gries, the company’s CEO, will assume responsibility for managing the U.S. operations. ... Maxlite named John Fredian as its VP of sales, national accounts. … MFM Building Products expanded sales duties for Chris Cook of W.R. Cook & Associates to all of Texas. He already handles sales for MFM in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and north Texas. … Steve Osterman was named territory sales manager for the Boral TruExterior Trim product line in the Pacific Northwest. ... Klein Tools promoted Mark P. Klein to vice president for domestic sales. … Steven James is the new chief financial officer of Frank Miller, a hardwood manufacturer. ... Atlas EPS, a division of Atlas Roofing, named Adroit Marketing of West Bend, Wis., as its manufacturing representative for Illinois, Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Wisconsin. Atlas also picked Building Resource of Toronto to rep for it in the Canadian province of Ontario. … The Colorado division of Snavely Forest Products hired Jon Kimber for its sales and distribution division, where he will work in sales, customer support, product purchasing, and management. … West Fraser appointed Edward R. Seraphim as the company’s president and chief operating officer. Seraphim most recently served as executive vice president and COO. ... Charlie Meyer, vice president for sales at Ferche Millwork, has retired after 27 years in the job. His successor as VP for sales and marketing is Ted Willoughby. … Dothan, Ala.-based Wholesale Wood Products hired Brian Newsom as a territory sales manager, working out of the company’s Birmingham, Ala., office.
