People – August 2006
• MAPEI names Rainer M. Blair to succeed the retiring Nick Di Tempora as President/CEO of MAPEI Americas. Di Tempora will remain on board as an advisor to Blair to ensure a smooth transition...
Author: Administrator
Got Green?
From one perspective, the green building movement is one of the worst things that can happen to the U.S. stone industry. From another viewpoint, it’s one of the best.
Gwinnett Environmental/Heritage Center, Buford, Ga.
By K. Schipper
BUFORD, Ga. – In the future, more buildings will look like the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center (GEHC). And that could be good news for stone suppliers – even those with spoiled stones on their hands.
Electronic Direct Mail for Stone, Part II
Editor's note: In the first part of this series, the author detailed the three initial steps — Planning, Determining Your Offer and List Selection — for successful electronic direct-mail efforts to sell stone and stone-related products. He concludes with the final three: Creative, Testing and Rollout.
Rock of Ages Taps Urbach
CONCORD, N.H. – Rock of Ages Corp. named Rich Urbach, formerly regional vice president of retail operations and a 17-year veteran of the retail memorial industry, as president and COO of retail operations in...
Company Briefs – June 2006
• STONEPRO, the exclusive distributor of DIAFORCE products, is now known as Helix Professional Tools. The change, effective June 1, comes as the Buffalo Grove, Ill.-based company found its previous name to be too...
Globe News Center for the Performing Arts, Amarillo, Texas
By M.W. Penn
AMARILLO, Texas – When this community conceived the idea for the Globe News Center for the Performing Arts, they wanted to construct one auditorium to house both musical and theatrical performances and to accommodate each with appropriate staging and acoustics.
Granite and Marble by Malave, Greensboro, N.C.
By K. Schipper
GREENSBORO, N.C. – When Len Malave talks about marrying Old World craftsmanship with modern technology, he’s thoroughly acquainted with both sides of the partnership.
Peter Loughney: Architectural Advice
Architects and designers have long valued stone as a building material for its beauty, permanence and sense of monumental prestige. In many ways, the history of architecture is the history of stone construction, says Peter Loughney, director of market development and technical services for the Michigan office of the International Masonry Institute (IMI).
Spanish Surge
By Emerson Schwartzkopf
MADRID – “My driving, I hope I don’t scare you with it,” said the taxi driver, doing a high-speed weave through at least three lanes as we head down the main access road from Barajas airport to the center of the Spanish capital. “You are Americans, right?”