Baker Hughes reported Friday that for the week ending August 16, the US rig count was up 13 to 1,791, but down 123 from 1,914 rigs during the same week a year ago. The oil rig count increased by 12 to 1,397 and the gas rig count was up by ...
Tags: Baker Hughes, Mineral
Working from a scaffold can already be a challenge, being confined to a small footprint with a drop-off only a few feet away. And as tough as it might be, adding heavy tools into the mix makes it that much harder. So why not add a shelf to ...
Tags: Portable Scaffold, Scaffold, Hardware, Construction
California-based personal lines insurance distribution company Confie Seguros has purchased a privately owned independent insurance agency Economy Insurance Mart of Spring Hill, for an undisclosed sum, to boost its existing footprint in ...
Tags: Insurance Mart, Confie Seguros
Baker Hughes reported Friday that for the week ending August 9, Canada's rig count increased by 17 to 358, also marking a 59-rig increase from the same week last year.? Meanwhile, the US rig count decreased by four to 1,778, dropping after ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Essex-based Riegens Lighting Ltd has been entered into administration following a series of financial losses. The company will continue to trade and will aim to save the positions of all current employees. Danish company Riegens A/S has ...
Several U.S. senators will push for changes in the way the National Security Agency collects the telephone records of millions of U.S. residents, with lawmakers saying they will focus on making the NSA program more transparent to the ...
Tags: NSA Data Collection
With slower than expected activity in the nonresidential construction sector in the first half of the year, the projections for growth in spending have been scaled back. Led by the hotel and retail project categories, the commercial sector ...
With slower than expected activity in the nonresidential construction sector in the first half of the year, the projections for growth in spending have been scaled back. Led by the hotel and retail project categories, the commercial sector ...
Tags: Building Activity
Baker Hughes reported Friday that for the week ending August 2, the US rig count increased by six to 1,782, the fourth consecutive week of increases. The rig count was down 148 from 1,930 rigs during the same week a year ago. The oil rig ...
General strengthening in the housing market over the past 18 months is translating into increased spending on home improvements, according to the Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA) released by the Remodeling Futures Program at ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, housing market
Cal-Maine Foods, a US-based egg producer, has reported a net loss of $3.8m for the fourth quarter of 2013, compared with a profit of $37.2m for the same period in 2012, due to lawsuit settlement charge that offset the company's improved ...
Tags: Cal-Maine Foods, Food
Hudson’s Bay Company and Saks Incorporated announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement whereby HBC will acquire Saks for US$16.00 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately US$2.9 billion, ...
Tags: Apparel, Hudson's Bay
The Architecture Billings Index (ABI) remained positive again in June after the first decline in ten months in April. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI reflects the approximate nine to twelve month lag time ...
The High Point Market Authority has hired Mona J. Delia as vice president of communications and Candy Baker as new director of industry sales and promotions. With more than 25 years of corporate communications, public relations and ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Apple sold 14% fewer iPads in the quarter that ended June 30 than during the same stretch in 2012, while the revenue it earned from those sales plummeted by 27%. Analysts tied the decline in revenue to the iPad Mini, Apple's smaller, ...
Tags: iPad Mini, High Margins