Benjamin Moore & Co., a unit of Berkshire Hathaway, announced the appointment of Michael Searles as Chief Executive Officer. Searles brings forty years of retail leadership experience to Benjamin Moore. In his career, he has served as a ...
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Shaw Industries Group Inc. — a Dalton, Ga.-based floor covering provider and a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. — will invest $100 million to streamline its distribution network and expand its fiber extrusion facility in ...
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Berkshire Hathaway's Shaw Industries Group, Inc. will invest at least $40 million and hire more than 25 new associates in South Pittsburg, Tenn., to meet the growing demand for its Epic? engineered flooring product. "Marion County could ...
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Shaw Industries Group Inc. — a Dalton, Ga.-based floor covering provider and subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. — has opened a 210,000-square-foot carpet tile manufacturing plant in Nantong, China, to help the company expand ...
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Berkshire Hathaway's Shaw Industries has announced its grand opening of a 210,000-square-foot (20,000-square-meter) carpet tile plant in Nantong, China – a port city 65 miles (105 kilometers) north of Shanghai. This facility offers ...
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Brooks Sports, Inc., a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and a large manufacturer and marketer of running footwear and apparel, will implement PTC Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) technology. The implementation will enable Brooks ...
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Berkshire Hathaway’s Shaw Industries Group, Inc. (Shaw) has announced its grand opening of a 210,000-square-foot (20,000-square-meter) carpet tile plant in Nantong, China – a port city 65 miles (105 kilometers) north of ...
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Berkshire Hathaway’s P&C and life/health reinsurance arm General Re’s $72m settlement with AIG’s investors has won a final approval by a US federal judge, which charged the firm for involvement in a fraudulent transaction ...
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Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance has named Todd M Greeley as its new vice president, claims, executive & professional lines, to boost the service offering to the clients. Prior to accepting the current role, Greeley was serving as ...
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Shaw Industries Group Inc. — a Dalton, Ga.-based floor covering provider and subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. — will invest $85 million to build a modular carpet tile manufacturing facility in Adairsville, Ga., and add 500 ...
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Tech companies are hanging onto record amounts of cash, and industry watchers want to see more of it reinvested in the companies or distributed to shareholders. FactSet, a financial research firm, tallied all the cash and marketable ...
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MiTek Industries, Inc. (Chesterfield, MO) announced today that its Hohmann & Barnard, Inc. subsidiary (Hauppauge, NY) had completed the purchase of the assets of Astoria, NYbased RKL Building Specialties Company. Hohmann & Barnard, ...
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US-based food company HJ Heinz is evaluating plans to cut about 250 jobs in the UK and Ireland, as part of an effort to restructure its business. This move comes after comes after the sale of the company to an investment consortium ...
The Nation's Top 25 furniture and bedding retailers posted a double-digit sales gain last year, bolstered by strong bedding specialty and rental store sectors and a big comeback by Walmart. The combined companies on the list grew 2012 ...
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Jordan's Furniture has leased a 200,000-square-foot building here and plans to open its first Connecticut store on the property in 12 to 18 months, the New Haven Register reports. Eliot Tatelman, president and CEO of the Taunton, ...
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