Booming diesel-fuel use in Europe and Latin America is paying off for U.S. drivers, as gasoline prices fall to a nine-month low. October supplies of gasoline are at a three-year high for that month, but refiners are still running at high ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, diesel-fuel
"Yes. ...I believe it adds confidence to the customer's purchase decision. I think first and foremost they're buying my company, Olum's, but then there are major, well-known brands - Flexsteel, England, Ashley - that add legitimacy and ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Several Canadian Freightliner dealers are among the winners of an Alliance Truck Parts contest that will send them to the season-ending Nascar Nationwide race in Homestead, Fla. The contest rewarded the dealers that sold the most Alliance ...
Tags: Truck, Transportation
ORLANDO, Fla. -- SmartTruck has rolled out more data that shows its undercarriage trailer aerodynamics system does, in fact, save fuel. The announcement comes on the heels of unfavourable testing by Performance Innovation Transport, which ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts, truck
Keep America Beautiful (KAB) announced the winners of the 2013 Graffiti Hurts Grant Program. This year, KAB provided four $2,500 cash grants as well as two $2,500 paint supply certificates from The Sherwin-Williams Company. Q-Star also ...
American Tire Distributors Inc. (ATD) recently opened a distribution center in West Palm Beach, Fla. It is the company's 108th D/C in the United States. ATD also has 24 distribution centers in Canada. Based in Huntersville, N.C., ATD is ...
Tags: tyre, tire, auto parts
ORLANDO, Fla -- The American Trucking Associations and the US trucking industry have long held an affinity for the Republican Party. Yet, as was foreshadowed by the playing of Bob Dylan's "The Times They are a Changin" as ATA president took ...
Tags: Transportation, truck
Advantage Sales & Marketing LLC (ASM) today revealed its plans to acquire Tri-Venture Marketing, Inc., "The Perishable Connection" (Tri-Venture) on Oct. 16, 2013. Tri-Venture is a food brokerage company focused on meat, deli, bakery, ...
Tags: Tri-Venture Marketing, Food
Mullican Flooring, a leading manufacturer of quality hardwood floors, has been named a title partner for the 2014 Southern Living Showcase Home, which will be opening in the spring of 2014. The Southern Living Showcase Home is an ...
Standard Furniture Mfg. is featured this week on the "Project Homeward Bound" series on the home improvement show "Designing Spaces," airing on Lifetime TV. Episodes will air at 7:30 a.m. Eastern and Pacific times, Sept. 25-27. The Friday ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
In his training efforts, Sean Lannoo will promote the benefits of VDO products and instruct and educate customers on their proper application and use. Continental Commercial Vehicles & Aftermarket has named a new Sales Technical Training ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Accessories
Industry veteran Robert Kirchmeyer joined Rooms To Go earlier this year as senior merchant. Kirchmeyer is handling general merchandising, buying and marketing for the Top 100 company's Southeast and Texas markets, working out of its ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Existing-home sales increased in August and reached the highest level in six-and-a-half years, while the median price shows nine consecutive months of double-digit year-over-year increases, according to the National Association of Realtors. ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
DuPont announced that it will increase prices on all of its titanium dioxide (TiO2) products sold in North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Asia Pacific regions effective Oct. 1, 2013, or as contracts allow, as ...
Tags: Chemicals, titanium dioxide
Dan and Diane Hennelly, owners of Hennelly Tire and Auto Inc., are the winners of Modern Tire Dealer's 2013 Tire Dealer of the Year award. They operate The Tire Choice and Total Car Care stores based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The Hennellys ...
Tags: tire, Auto Parts