RAWALPINDI, Pakistan – This country’s top government leaders – President General Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz – made it a point here on June 24 to commit Pakistan to developing marble and...
LOS ANGELES – Federal prosecutors here charged several current and former executives of Oxnard, Calif.-based Haas Automation – including the company’s owner – on tax-fraud charges in late June. In a 52-page indictment, the...
FAIRFAX, Va. – Wholesale supplier TR Stone is now part of the Tureks organization, as of May 1. TR Stone, based in Pompano, Fla., is now merged into Marble Systems, a Tureks division. TR...
SUN VALLEY, Calif. – Caesarstone USA introduced its Advantage Program earlier this summer, providing certified fabricators and installers of the quartz-surfacing material with numerous promotions, discounts, training, and reward points. The Caesarstone program allows...
The Inter-American Development Bank approved of a $10 million innovation loan in late June for a program to strengthen business activity in the Brazilian state of Bahia. The program will promote a new private...
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...
OMAHA, Neb. – The first U.S.-based granite-distribution center for the Brazilian Consortium of Stones (BCS) got off to a roaring start Feb. 22 with its grand opening in this Missouri River city. Nebraska Lt....
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Michael Pelehach is the new CEO of Braxton-Bragg Corp., following the retirement of company co-founder Doug Slocum. Pelehach moved into the top position of the stone-industry-products distributor on April 17. He...
ITASCA, Ill. – Lawrence Halprin, FASLA, is the honoree of the 2006 James Daniel Bybee Prize from the Building Stone Institute (BSI). Halprin, a renowned San Francisco-based landscape architect, was selected for the award...
Complaints over low-cost stone from China may be standard fare in Europe and North America, but a new set of protests came from much closer to the source in March. The China News Agency...