What Are the Top Ten Housing Markets for 2025?

Some of the usual suspects turn up on Realtor.com’s list for this year, but there are a few surprises too. It’s not a surprise that the best housing markets for 2025 come exclusively from the U.S. South and the West but the individual metropolitan areas might offer a few unexpected choices. Realtor.com’s rankings for the […]

Home Depot’s Latest Acquisition Targets Kitchen Sector

The big home improvement chain continues to build out its business in the home design category. With the new home construction sector continuing to stay challenged, Home Depot has made an additional move to strengthen its business in finished products and home services. In late December the Home Depot subsidiary, Construction Resources Company, announced it […]

The Latest Use for Southern Pine: Power Sources

There could be a new use for timber in the American South and it’s coming from an unexpected source. Long considered a prime building material, UK-based Drax Group is looking to use pine to fuel wood-fired power plants for tech users. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the company is looking for locations to […]

A Medieval Carpentry Technique Helped Rebuild Notre-Dame

The reconstruction of the legendary cathedral in Paris used “scribing,” a technique employed in its original construction. When French officials made the decision five years ago to rebuild Notre-Dame Cathedral as close as possible to its original design following a massive and devastating fire in April of 2019, it meant using a carpentry technique that […]

Ace Hardware CEO Named Retail Radical by The Robin Report

In its annual awards for innovation in the retail field, John Venhuizen was one of handful of executive honorees. “What is more radical than leading a 100-year-old brand into the future by reinventing the legacy hardware store model?” asks The Robin Report, the newsletter for executives in the retail field. It just awarded its Retail […]

IWF 2024 Scorecard: Attendees Loved What They Discovered in Atlanta

For the almost 16,000 buyer attendees crowding the IWF exhibit halls in Atlanta last August, IWF 2024 was a big winner. How do we know? In post-show research independently conducted and reported… Explore the show details and exhibitors in the IWF 2024 Digital Show Directory.