By Mai-Tal Kennedy Building Industry Partners The past 16 months have highlighted how much of what we took as unwritten rules of business...

If deeds matter more than words, then three acts in recent weeks by Builders FirstSource (BFS) have revealed much about how America’s...

To give you a sense of how busy dealmakers have been so far in 2021, consider this: The number of deals, openings, and closures so far...

DEALERS US LBM named Glen Albee as its Regional Vice President for the Northeast. 84 Lumber named Ronald Oliver as Southeast Area Manager...

The state of North Carolina advised inspectors today against automatically disqualifying European lumber on Tar Heel construction sites...

North Carolina's chief residential code consultant to the state Insurance Department confirmed today that the state's alert about the use...

Katerra, the multi-billion-dollar company created to revolutionize construction, is closing the bulk of its U.S. operations, the company...

Last week's acquisitions by Builders FirstSource and US LBM, building on similarly big deals earlier this year, led us to wonder: If you...

While the biggest headlines in construction supply M&A during May involved acquisitions by US LBM and Builders FirstSource, they were...

DEALERS The Lester Group picked Kevin Silveira (right) to be VP for Building Supply. Builders FirstSource appointed Randy Whetzell as...

Two major deals announced in two days--US LBM's acquisition of American Construction Source (ACS) and Builders FirstSource's purchase of...

"I’ve long said that our employees have owned Ward Lumber in their hearts for a long time,” CEO Jay Ward said of the company's move to a...

Last July, Russ Taylor wrote a column asking if W-SPF 2x4 #2 lumber could hit $1,000 per thousand board feet. As of May 4 it's near...

M&A, openings, and closures activity through the first days of May now is running 50% ahead of last year's pace thanks in big part of US...

DEALERS Beacon Building Products named Phillip McCullum as Market Manager for California; Brian Wanke as Branch Manager in Howell, MI;...

As spring comes in and Covid all too slowly goes away, will we resume our old ways of operating a construction supply company, or has the...

DEALERS The merger of Builders FirstSource with BMC continues to make waves. Most recently, BFS named Sean Warrington as VP of Sales for...

One of my fondest LBM memories came when I saw Robert Plummer, president of R.P. Lumber, pushing a cart early one morning at a Do it Best...