French-Brown Floors Founding Partner Passes Away at 95

Jun 4, 2014

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Elizabeth Swift Brown died May 23 at age 95. Brown and her husband founded French-Brown Wood Floors Inc. (Dallas, Texas) in 1952, and the business thrived. Brown worked in business until she retired in 1999.

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Seth Gladden Launches the Gladden Group, a Marketing and Consulting Agency

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Recognizing Retail Excellence: Enter the 2024 WFB Outstanding Retailer Awards

Recognizing Retail Excellence: Enter the 2024 WFB Outstanding Retailer Awards

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The Deadline is Approaching: Enter the 2024 WFB Outstanding Retailer Awards

Overall Housing Starts Increased 5.7% in April as Single-Family Starts Decreased Slightly

WFB Briefs: City Floor Now Carries Pallmann; WFCA Leadership Class; More

Seth Gladden Launches the Gladden Group, a Marketing and Consulting Agency

Seth Gladden, most recently the head of marketing for Taylor Adhesives and the Flooring Division of Meridian Adhesives Group, has launched his own agency, the Gladden Group.

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The Deadline is Approaching: Enter the 2024 WFB Outstanding Retailer Awards

Entry forms for the 2024 WFB Outstanding Retailer Awards are open. The deadline to submit is June 1 at 5 p.m. CT.

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Overall Housing Starts Increased 5.7% in April as Single-Family Starts Decreased Slightly

Overall housing starts increased 5.7% in April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.36 million units, but the annual rate of single-family starts decreased slightly in April.

WFB Briefs: City Floor Now Carries Pallmann; WFCA Leadership Class; More

City Floor Supply is now carrying Pallmann products, the WFCA is offering a leadership class, and AGC has a mental health webinar available.

Franchise Footprints Floors Celebrates 15th Anniversary

Franchise company Footprints Floors is celebrating its 15th anniversary.

Construction Input Prices Increased 0.5% in April

Construction input prices increased 0.5% in April compared with March, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index data released today.

Builder Confidence Down 6 Points in May

Builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes declined 6 points in May to 45, its first decline since November.

Live Ventures, Parent Company of Harris Flooring Group, Announces Q2 Results

Live Ventures (Las Vegas), the holding company that is the parent company of Harris Flooring Group and also recently gave a second offer to take over LL Flooring, announced the results for its second fiscal quarter.

Kährs' Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions Targets Validated

Kährs Group's science-based near-term and net-zero greenhouse gas emissions reductions targets have been validated and approved by the Science Based Targets initiative.

WFB Briefs: Mirage Sale; Kährs Asia-Pacific, Middle East Sales Manager; New Cyncly GM

Mirage is offering a rebate starting May 16; Kährs has a new sales manager for the Asia-Pacific, Middle East regions; and Cyncly has a new general manager.

NAR Chief Economist Prediction: Falling Interest Rates, Rising Existing-Home Sales in 2024

NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun forecasted that interest rates will fall in the long term, 2024 existing-home sales will rise to 4.46 million (up 9% from 4.09 million in 2023) and 2025 existing-home sales will increase.

Zena Forest Products Launches Edge Grain Flooring

Zena Forest Products, based in Salem, Ore., has introduced a wood flooring line, Edge Grain, that it says is unique and sustainable.

Zena Forest Products' Edge Grain wood flooring consists of 7½-by-15-inch hardwood tiles composed of ¾-inch-wide individual strips and two thin embedded wire backings.

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