Almost immediately following its early December filing of Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois - Eastern Division, multi-branch wholesaler Builders Plumbing & Heating Supply Co., based in Addison, Ill., requested the court's permission to sell substantially all of its assets. In its petition, the wholesaler said it owed its lenders about $29.4 million.
Plumbmaster, a supplier of plumbing repair and maintenance parts owned by NCH Corp. of Dallas, was acquired by Bradford Equities Management of White Plains, N.Y., for an undisclosed amount.
Appleseed Business, a training and consulting company for contracting businesses, will offer two-day workshops in 2004 conducted by its president, Al Levi.
Orlando, Fla.-based-Hughes Supply reported positive comparable growth of 3% for its fiscal third quarter 2004 ended Oct. 31, after 11 quarters of negative comparable branch sales growth.
APR Supply (Lebanon, Pa.) said that its president, Scott Weaver, was recently selected as a Central Penn Business Journal's Forty Under 40 award recipient.
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