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New York, NY, October 21, 2020-The Justice Department is filing an antitrust suit against Google based on its search deals with Apple, for which the company was paid as much as $11 billion, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Washington, DC, October 21, 2020—Mortgage applications decreased 0.6% from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending October 16, 2020.
Manchester, NH, October 19, 2020-With an ongoing pandemic, CCA Global Partners has reevaluated its 2021 in-person convention plans.
Washington, DC, October 20, 2020—Privately-owned housing starts in September were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,415,000, 1.9% above the revised August estimate of 1,388,000 and 11.1% above the September 2019 rate of 1,274,000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Livonia, MI, October 20, 2020—Eric Wroldsen has been named vice president of commercial and national accounts sales for Virginia Tile.
Atlanta, GA, October 20, 2020— Interface has unveiled its latest collection, Embodied Beauty. All seven products within the collection are carbon neutral across their full product life cycle and some are carbon negative.
Florence, AL, October 20, 2020—Schönox HPS North America is now a participant in the Mindful Materials (mM) Library.
Washington, DC, October 19, 2020—In a further show of strength for the housing sector, builder confidence in the market for newly-built single-family homes increased two points to 85 in October, further surpassing the previous all-time high of 83 recorded in September, according to the latest NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI).
Lancaster, PA, October 19, 2020-Amy Peacock Trojanowski has joined Armstrong Flooring as senior vice president, chief financial officer.
Dalton, GA, October 19, 2020-In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, Emily Morrow Finkell, CEO of Emily Morrow Home and 17 year survivor of breast cancer, has pledged to start and fund the new EMF Grant Fund at the Floor Covering Industry Foundation (FCIF).