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...

Thanks to new owner American Securities LLC, Foundation Building Materials (FBM) has expanded its network by roughly 50% through the...

Four weeks into the Biden Administration, the American Wood Council's (AWC) president and CEO sees opportunities to promote wood as a...

Traffic jams at America's ports, railroad terminals, and trucking centers all indicate that the supply headaches you suffered last year...

The latest LBM deals, openings, and closures map has a lot of dots in Southern California and a lot of action elsewhere, and in both...

DEALERS SRS Distribution promoted Ryan Nelson to EVP and CFO; he's been SVP of M&A and Strategy since 2012. SRS also promoted Cynthia...

By Mark Barnard Adapt or be left behind: That’s the new motto that the LBM industry has embraced in the year since Covid first arrived....

By James Aiken Mergers and acquisitions in the building materials industry ultimately lead to changes in the employment market, with...

Which LBM operation did the most deals last year? Which state saw the most facilities change status? Which lumberyard was sold to a...

American Construction Source's news the morning of Jan. 20 that it bought Builder's Resource Group, a two-store operation in Wisconsin,...

The LBM industry ought to know a lot more about itself than it currently does. You can help make that happen by joining in the creation...

DEALERS 84 Lumber has named Joe Weston as its new VP of Cost Forecasting & Pricing and Rich Scalise as its new VP of inventory...

What's popular often isn't what matters most; if clicks and likes were all that mattered, the marriage of 84 Lumber's Maggie Hardy would...

Construction supply executives accustomed to playing defense during this Covid pandemic soon will have an opportunity to go on the...

M&A activity involving BMC and US LBM has dominated the deals news since shortly before Thanksgiving, while SRS Distribution's Heritage...