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The Industry's Annual Report 2003 DIY Retail Sales Sales in Billions January $25.9 February $24.2 March $25.9 April $26.0 May $26.0 June $26.7 July $27.3 August $27.4 Sales Growth 2003 [...]

Facts and Figures From Around the State. Corrections Department: The June issue's article on frequent flier programs contained a pair of numbers that were incorrect. The article should have read […]

Dramatic changes in the timber industry spurred price increases for Alaska's wood, but also triggered declines in timber employment, particularly in Southeast, where the majority of the state's timber workers […]

After losing money four years in a row, Springdale-based National Home Centers is poised to turn a profit in the first quarter of 1999. And the company, which has closed [...]

Wood will play a starring role in the Centennial Olympic Games taking place duly 19-Aug. 4 in Atlanta. WOOD & WOOD PRODUCTS looks at some of the wood projects and [...]

A new investigation accuses HSBC of ignoring its own sustainability policies SOME big banks do little more than pay lip service to environmental issues. HSBC likes to think of itself [...]

Money may not grow on trees, but in this case, it will be harvested from them. In a large bankruptcy filing on Nov. 4 encompassing himself and three of his [...]

FROM BRITISH COLUMBIA TO NEWFOUNDLAND, THE FORESTRY INDUSTRY IS UNDER ECONOMIC SIEGE At the Chateau Kap bar in downtown Kapuskasing, Ont., workers from the nearby Spruce Falls Paper and Power [...]

Staff Governor Jim Doyle announced that Midwest Hardwood Corporation, Park Falls, Price County, will receive a $100,000 Community Development Block Grant-Economic Development (CDBG-ED) loan from the Department of Commerce. 'Manufacturing [...]

Lumber prices have suffered sporadic drops since the United States imposed a 19.3% countervailing duty on Canadian softwood lumber Aug. 10. The tax, counteractive to early May due to alleged [...]

52-WEEK STOCK PERFORMANCE REVIEW THE NUMBER OF publicly traded companies headquartered in Arkansas has continued to dwindle since mid-2000, when Arkansas investor profiled the 24 most notable corporations. Since then, [...]

A south Little Rock enterprise picked up a $3.5 million funding agreement. Kaufman Lumber Co., led by Steve Wortman, obtained the 11-month loan from Regions Bank in Little Rock. The [...]

The Georgia-Pacific Group, Atlanta, GA, has reported first quarter results for 2001. Sales for the period were $6.3 billion com pared to $5.5 billion in the first quarter of 2000. [...]

Consumer products giant Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, OH, has released its October-December quarter results. Net sales for the quarter were $10.4 billion, up 2%, compared to last year's period. Net [...]

A computer simulation of machine-replacement considerations in the logging industry is described. Two programs accomplish this simulation. SIMLEP models purchase or lease alternatives and SIMREP models the working life of new equipment or the next period cost for existing equipment. An example of an old Caterpillar D6D log transporter is used. These analyses are useful in making equipment investment decisions when life expectancy is long and significant maintenance costs are assumed.

Vernon Hills, Ill. - reported sales of $54.8 million for the four weeks ended March 28, 1998, a 3.8 percent increase over sales during the comparable period last year. Same-store [...]