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E-News is an electronic newsletter distributed by Hardwood Floors every other week. Current and previous issues are archived and can be requested electronically. You also can subscribe to E-News, and submit a news item for publication. Issue Date:3/3/2003
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A/S Norway and Palo Duro Hardwoods Form Alliance Boen Hardwood Flooring also will market sports floors for Boen Norway in the U.S. market, and will act as distributor for the Virginia market. Contact Boen Hardwood Flooring directly at 276/638-3700 for more information. The new alliance will begin business on April 1and will have a new toll-free number: 888/897-0800. NWFA
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News Galleher Inc. (Santa Fe Springs, Calif.) took a group of more than 450 customers and guests on a seven-day eastern Caribbean cruise earlier this month. The company also has announced a trip promotion for 2004-Galleher's Grand Adventures. This trip will take Galleher customers on their choice of either a 10-day cruise to the Panama Canal or a seven-day cruise to the Mexican Riviera, the company says. For more information, call 562/356-4614. Lauzon Distinctive Hardwood Flooring (Papineauville, Quebec) has added Elias Wilf Corp. (Baltimore), a fourth-generation, family-owned, independent company, to its list of distributors. The new partnership is effective immediately. For more information, visit the Elias Wilf Corp. Web site at www.flooryou.com. Select Flooring Distributors Inc.'s (Overland Park, Kan. and Lee's Summit, Mo.) cruise promotion was a success. Eighty-one of Select Flooring's customers, vendors and employees sailed on the Carnival Cruises' Imagination to the Western Caribbean for four nights. Participating vendors included people from Century Flooring, Mullican Flooring and Hassel & Hughes Lumber. Other co-sponsors included: 3M, BonaKemi USA, Glitsa America, Harco, J&S Tools, Johnson Abrasives and Old Western Paint Co. People
News Fini UV International Inc. (Frampton, Quebec) has appointed Brigitte Bernard sales representative for the United States. Bernard joins Fini UV with six years of experience in the industry, previously having served as an inside sales representative for Primatech. Bernard can be reached at 418/878-5540 or brigitte.bernard@finium.ca. Wood Flooring International (Delran, N.J.) has appointed Alex Soto as Midwest/Northeast regional sales manager. Formerly with TEKsystems Inc., Soto brings considerable experience to WFI in support of its distribution. He can be contacted by e-mail at alex@wflooring.com or by phone at 856/764-2501, ext. 113. Premiere Finishing & Coating (Reidsville, N.C.) has appointed George Palmer flatline sales manager for its wood coatings segment. Palmer has seven years of prefinished flooring experience and will coordinate sales and service activities for flooring and other wood customers. By
the Numbers Builders began work on new homes and apartments at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.85 million units in January, according to the Commerce Department. This marks the fastest pace of housing construction in 16 years. New single-family homes were constructed at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.51 million units in January, up 2.1 percent from December. In other numbers from the department, new-home sales fell below the million-unit mark for the first time in six months this January, slowing 15 percent from December's record-high pace to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 914,000 units. This was the slowest pace of new-home sales since January 2002. Regionally, January's decline was concentrated in the Midwest and South. The inventory of unsold new homes rose by just over 2 percent in January to 346,000 units, a 4.5 months' supply at the current sales rate compared with December's 3.8 months' supply. The National Association of Home Builders' Housing Market Index (HMI) was down two points to 62 in February. The HMI's component gauging current sales conditions for new single-family homes registered no change in February from its mark of 69 the previous month, while the component gauging builders' expectations of sales in the next six months registered a two-point decline to 66. However, the component gauging traffic of prospective buyers fell eight points to 43 in February, possibly due to bad weather conditions. Job
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Your Calendar The Natural Products Expo West will be held March 6-9 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif. There will be more than 2,400 exhibits and more than 40 seminars and workshops. The event also will feature the "Store of the Future," showcasing nontoxic, earth-friendly sustainable building products and finishes, as well as the latest merchandising strategies for natural products, trending information and back-room technology. For
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