Operations & Technology

List of improving housing markets expands to 99 in September

September 10, 2012
U.S. housing continues on a slow but steady recovery path.
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HARDI distributor sales up in July

September 7, 2012
Including three regions with mid-to-high teens percentage growth.
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New York-based manufacturers rep Rathe Associates prepares itself for a bright future.

September 1, 2012
The three sons of New York-based manufacturers rep Rathe Associates are ready for the future.
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Construction starts dive, but housing sales improve

August 28, 2012
July brings the pace of total construction starts back to the lackluster activity reported at the outset of 2012. Separate reports from the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the National Association of Realtors and the Census Bureau showed, respectively, rising prices for existing single-family houses, rising sales and falling inventories for existing homes, and rising sales and record-low inventories of new homes.
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New kids on the block

Generation Y is easier to understand than you think.
August 1, 2012
Southern Wholesalers Association convention in Panama City Beach, Fla., in late June. As Hira pointed out, to qualify for the Generation Y designation you need to have a birth year between the late 1970s and 1995. My early 1970s birth year bumps me back to the Generation X category (1964-1977).
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Housing starts offer positive numbers in June

July 19, 2012
Housing starts increased to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 760,000 in June.
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Construction hiring stalls, unemployment falls in June

July 6, 2012
The unemployment rate for former construction workers was 12.8%, not seasonally adjusted, down from 15.6% in June 2011 and 20.1% in June 2010.
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Why wholesalers need the cloud

Round-the-clock access, less IT work makes this new technology worth the investment.
July 1, 2012
s businesses look to trim costs on information technology (IT), many are gravitating to cloud computing as a way to increase efficiency and economics. But what is the “cloud” and how can it help your business?
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More metros lost than gained construction jobs in last 12 months

June 29, 2012
An AGC analysis released June 26 showed construction employment increased in 126 out of 337 areas for which BLS provides construction data (including divisions of larger metros), declined in 164 and stayed stagnant in 47.
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Construction jobs shrink in May, April construction spending rises

June 4, 2012
Over the past two years, construction employment was virtually unchanged but the number of unemployed hardhats fell by 605,000, suggesting workers are quitting construction, either to take jobs elsewhere, return to school, retire or otherwise leave the workforce.
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DEWALT media event at Stanley Black and Decker University

The DEWALT media event was hosted at the Stanley Black and Decker University in Towson, Md.
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