VIDEO: Samich Demo @ Coverings 2011 (March 15)
Normally, we don’t run product demos in the news section of Stone Business Online. However, when someone convinces their mother-in-law to run a floor grinder at a trade show … well, that’s news.
Author: Administrator
VIDEO: Coverings 2011 Cuts the Ribbon (March 14)
What’s an official show opening without the ceremonial ribbon-cutting? Here’s the ceremony (with a bit of stage-managing by the official photographer) at Coverings 2011 in Las Vegas yesterday.
LATICRETE Gains Drytek™ Flooring Solutions (March 13)
BETHANY, Conn. — LATICRETE International Inc. acquired Portsmouth, N.H.-based Drytek™ Flooring Solutions LLC, a supplier of self-leveling cements, decorative concrete toppings and related products/systems, in a deal announced today. Terms of the transaction weren’t...
March 2011
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BUILDING STONE
Slimrock™, Cecil, Ark., offers Arkansas River Valley stone quarried near Ozark, Ark., for use in a wide variety of applications. The company features thin veneer in a range of colors and sizes, including its Essentials line, with faces from 4”-12” in height, and the Magnum line, with faces up to 22”. Slimrock also offers building stone in a 4” thickness in both split and tumbled faces, flagstones, pavers ranging from 2”-2.5” in thickness, and 1” thick sawn tiles for flooring.
Contact: Slimrock, 479-667-2121.
Spall: Name Your Place
By Emerson Schwartzkopf
In the modern consumerist society, here’s a theory that’s reasonably accepted: The intensity of marketing of a given product is equivalent to recognition and interest of the public in that specific product.
2010 Pinnacle Awards: Intercontinental Excellence
LAS VEGAS – The 2010 Pinnacle Awards spanned the seas, with winners of the natural-stone-design competition on two continents.
Fabricator Focus: CogswellStone, Palmyra, Va.
By K. Schipper
PALMYRA, Va. – At first glance, it might appear that John and Lisa Cogswell are doing business pretty far out on a shaky limb.
Construction Jobs Up, But Still Behind 2010 Levels (March 4)
ARLINGTON, Va. – The construction industry added 33,000 jobs in February even as the industry’s unemployment rate was 21.8 percent, more than twice the national average, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGCA).
Selling Fixtures: Start A New Cash Flow?
By K. Schipper
The next big thing to help set your shop apart from the rest may not be stone at all. – but it’ll tap into a genuine customer need.