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St. Louis, MO, April 25, 2017–-The National Wood Flooring Association’s (NWFA) chief operating officer, Anita Howard, was chosen as the recipient of the Gary Sinise Foundation’s 2017 Above & Beyond award.
Washington, DC, April 28, 2017—Compensation costs for civilian workers increased 0.8%, seasonally adjusted, for the three-month period ending in March 2017, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
Washington, DC, April 28, 2017—Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 0.7% in the first quarter of 2017, according to the "advance" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Atlanta, GA, April 27, 2017—Interface reported sales of $221.1 million for Q1 2017, down 0.7% from Q1 2016’s $222.6 million.
Boca Raton, FL, April 27, 2017—Q.E.P. Co. has completed the acquisition of the Halex/GCPAT tackstrip and wood underlayment businesses and accompanying assets from GCP Applied Technologies (GCPAT).
Dalton, GA, April 27, 2017—Shaw has been selected as the recipient of the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital 2017 Proprietary Campaign of the Year award.
Washington, DC, April 27, 2017—New orders for manufactured durable goods in March increased $1.6 billion or 0.7% to $238.7 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau announced.
Ludwigshafen, DE, April 27, 2017—BASF Group’s reports that sales rose 19% in Q1 2017 to 16.9 billion euros over Q1 2016’s 14.2 billion euros.
Washington, DC, April 27, 2017—The Pending Home Sales Index declined 0.8% to 111.4 in March from 112.3 in February according to the National Association of Realtors.
Wielsbeke, BE, April 27, 2017—On March 23, 2017, the first instance court in Dusseldorf, Germany, handed down two decisions in a legal dispute involving Pergo and Classen, relating to both parties’ patent cooperation on Fold-Down technology.