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Taco Inc. was recently the recipient of an export achievement award given by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Commercial Service.

Tyco Fire & Building Products announced the opening of the Grinnell Mechanical Grooved Products warehouse in Avon, MA.

Weldbend Corp.’s founder and CEO, James J. Coulas, Sr., died peacefully at home on July 4, apparently of heart failure, at age 92.

Activant Solutions Inc. has signed a definitive asset purchase agreement with Intuit Inc. to acquire the Intuit Eclipse™ Distribution Management Solutions business.

Home Depot lowered its profit forecast yesterday and now expects earnings per share to fall as much as 18 percent this year and annual sales to fall for the first time in the company’s history.

Combined U.S. factory shipments of central air conditioners and air-source heat pumps for May totaled 739,647, up 8.5% from May 2006 shipments, according to the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI).

Watsco, Inc., Miami, and ACR Group, Inc., Houston, announced that they have executed a definitive merger agreement under which Watsco will seek to acquire ACR’s outstanding common stock in a cash tender offer of $6.75 per share.

Federal Trade Commission antitrust authorities have approved plans by Home Depot Inc. to sell HD Supply, according to a Reuters report published last Tuesday.             Home Depot announced last

A.O. Smith Water Products Co. appointed Kevin Wheeler senior vice president and general manager of U.S. retail water heaters and Wei Ding as vice president – China. In other changes,

HD Supply wholesale distribution business was sold in a joint-purchase from The Home Depot for $10.3 billion.