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...
• 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...
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...
• Alpha Professional Tools® adds Oscar Soltero to the Oakland, N.J.-based company’s sales team. He will be responsible for Northern California and the Reno/Lake Tahoe area of Nevada. • Vince Pompo joins Ceramic Tile...
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...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden – KMT (Karolin Machine Tool AB) acquired Houston-based Aqua-Dyne, a manufacturer of high-pressure waterjet systems and accessories, early last month for $10 million. The acquisition gives KMT access to a new growing...
NEW YORK – The direct-marketing approach with natural stone became the focus of a seminar for the Turkish-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry here late last year. Hasan Kursad Devecioglu presented his “7 Ways...