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Masco Corporation announced today that David F. Brown has joined Masco as Chief Procurement Officer and Vice President - Supply Chain, effective December 1. In his new position, Mr.

THE granddaughter of the founder of a Ruthin civil engineering company has joined the family business.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Friday set a January 20 shareholder vote on a stock split related to the company's planned $26.4 billion takeover of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.

Levis A. 'Al' McConnell, III, 44, Milton - McConnell is a pharmacy district supervisor for CVS/Caremark. He is a three-time recipient of the Area 8 Pharmacy Triple S Award, member of the Georgia Pharmacy Association and a mentor for the Emerging Leader Program.

The Vidalia Christmas Display, featuring the old International Paper Company displays, may draw a record number of visitors this year.

Breaking ground on the countya s new South Placer Adult Correctional Facility are District 2 Supervisor Robert Weygandt; District 3 Supervisor Jim Holmes; Assistant District Attorney Scott Owens; Richard Henry, President, North Pacific Division, McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.; Board of Supervisors Chairman F. C. a oeRockya Rockholm; District 4 ...

Herb Kohler, Chairman and CEO of Kohler Co., today announced that the company, through its subsidiary, The Old Course Limited, has purchased Hamilton Hall of St Andrews, Scotland, one of the most photographed buildings in the world of golf.

Shares of several of Canadaa s largest lumber exporters have skyrocketed in the past two months as new building codes in China allowing wood in construction have cracked open a previously inaccessible market for Canadaa s long-suffering forestry industry.

Engineering and construction firm Fluor Corp. and contractor DynCorp International Inc.

Toll Brothers Inc. lost $111.4 million in the fiscal fourth quarter, but the luxury homebuilder is seeing signs of a turnaround in the housing market.

Homebuilder Toll Brothers said today its fiscal fourth quarter loss grew 30 percent, as revenue declined.

Shares of Matrix Service Co. jumped Thursday as an analyst upgraded the industrial construction, repair and maintenance services company on expectations that more projects are in the works.

Deere & Co., the largest U.S. maker of farm equipment, says its board of directors has elected CEO Samuel R. Allen as chairman of the board.

Among the shares expected to see active trade in Thursday's session are those of Marvell Technology Group Ltd., Toll Brothers Inc., Del Monte Foods Co.

URS Corp. said on Wednesday that the Tennessee Valley Authority has awarded a contract worth up to $950 million to a joint venture, for work on its hydroelectric facilities and seven coal-fired power plants.

The Complaint charges that Northwest Pipe and certain of its officers and directors violated federal securities laws.

In the search for a new executive to run General Motors , outsiders are in. The troubled company's new government-appointed board wants GM to change faster than it did under fallen CEO Fritz Henderson, and it will look for a replacement from outside the automaker's bureaucratic culture.

NEW YORK - A former New York City electrical contractor will spend three months behind bars for paying tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to a corrupt union official.

The following is a summary of key developments for the period. OVERVIEW: The Horsham, Pa.-based company has operations in 21 states and was ranked the 14th largest homebuilder in the U.S. last year by Builder magazine.

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