By K. Schipper
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – In an industry with plenty of newcomers over the past few years, Barden Stone Co. seems like one of the old veterans. Bob Barden’s father bought the business in 1951; it’s been fixture in this Southern city even before that.
By Mark Lauzon
When we started our fabrication company, we had very simple equipment, not a whole lot of skill and really big hearts (not to mention really thick skin).
By Cathie Beck
SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. – It took the Marcella family nearly four decades to bring natural stone into their tile business – and it’s taken far less time to become one of the area’s premier fabrication companies.
Marketing plan? Who’s got time to plan?
DALLAS – Exhibit-floor space for StonExpo 2006 is more than 80-percent sold for the November event in Las Vegas, according to Hanley Wood LLC, the event’s owner and producer. Dallas-based Hanley Wood Exhibitions notes...
NEW YORK – Exhibitors at the ITSS Miami show last month may be in line for a free booth at the company’s Las Vegas event this October … providing that they appear at other...
Get used to hearing them, because these are two words that will keep popping up about stone fabrication: continuous production.
By Mark Lauzon
Last month we did an overview of needs-based selling and defined some terms. Let’s do a quick recap.
By Jake Rishavy
DENVER – In taking a brief glance at Stone Craft’s current campus of three large facilities—totaling just over 41,000 ft² on 4.5 acres—it’s hard to imagine that this company started in a space smaller than most people’s first apartments.
By K. Schipper
FREDERIKSTED, Virgin Islands – This port city on St. Croix, the largest of three islands that make up the United States Virgin Islands, may have a past that dates back hundreds of years, but with the turn of the century its future was seriously in doubt.