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Two former executives of what once was among Arkansas' biggest LBM operations are launching a new store in the state's northwest corner. More
Two former National Home Center executives plan to launch a new store in Arkansas' northwest corner late in April. Encore Flooring and Building Products will sell a wide a variety of flooring types as well as lighting, doors, fireplaces, deco hardware, and windows. More
Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies Inc. has restructured itself through a deal in which an affiliate of H.I.G. Capital LLC took preferred equity and debt securities in the Arkansas-based building materials make in exchange for extinguishing AERT debts to H.I.G. and investing another $5.5 million into the company. H.I.G. says it now owns 80% of AERT. More
Potlatch Corp.'s wood products segment recovered from a $3 million operating loss in last year's second quarter to post income of $6 million in April through June of this year, its best showing since winter 2006. Potlatch also has agreed to sell 41,500 acres of Wisconsin and Arkansas timberland and has an option to sell another 46,500 acres in the fourth quarter--deals that involve 5.5% of its 1.6 million acres of holdings. More
Opening a new front in the long-running fight over green-certified wood, three members of Arkansas' Congressional delegation urged the president and CEO of the U.S. Green Building Council to accept wood certified by other systems besides the Forest Stewardship Council as being eligible for points under the LEED rating system. More
A second financial institution has filed objections to a bid by Stock Building Supply to pay $15 million to buy National Home Centers, the Arkansas-based dealer that ranked 26th on last year's ProSales 100 and now is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. More
Stock Building Supply Holdings LLC will buy the assets of Arkansas' National Home Centers, which is now under protection from creditors under Chapter 11. More
A federal bankruptcy court scheduled a hearing April 2 to consider a bid by Stock Building Supply to acquire National Home Centers, the Arkansas-based dealer that entered Chapter 11 last December and that last week reported its net loss for January increased nine-fold to $4.3 million. More
Stock Building Supply Holdings LLC will buy the assets of Arkansas' National Home Centers, which is now under protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of federal bankruptcy laws. More
