Stock Building Supply, the nation's ninth-biggest pro-oriented building material dealer, has filed for an initial public offering, the company announced. Stock also revealed that it recorded operating losses of over $5 million last year and nearly $206 million over the past three years. More
Wolseley Plc, the U.K.-based construction supply giant, announced that its U.S. operations--primarily the plumbing supply distributor Ferguson--posted a 22.7% decline in trading profit for the year ended July 31 to reach 239 million pounds ($375.2 million) on an 11.1% drop in revenue to 5.17 billion pounds ($8.12 billion). More
