Ferguson Reports Revenue Growth of 8 Percent

Ferguson’s parent company, Wolseley plc, the world’s largest specialist trade distributor of plumbing and heating products to professional contractors, announced its financial results for the first-half of the 2013 fiscal year. Ferguson’s like-for-like (or same store) sales growth was 8.3 percent, including price inflation of approximately 1 percent. Trading profit was 29 percent ahead of last year.…

EmbroidMe Opens Store in Wheeling

EmbroidMe has opened a new store in Wheeling, WV. The store and showroom are located at 951 National Road. EmbroidMe is the world’s largest diversified promotional products franchise. They provide custom embroidery, screen printing, and promotional products around the globe. “We are excited to open EmbroidMe in the Ohio Valley. We offer an assortment of…

WVU is Nation’s First University with a Canopy Tour

Zipping through trees on steel cables at 25-30 miles per hour sounds like an activity geared more to thrill-seekers than academicians. But in creating a zipline canopy tour, West Virginia University (WVU) has built a facility that’s both thought-provoking and adrenaline-inducing. The tour, a network of four ziplines connected to trees at WVU’s Adventure WV course in the WVU Research Forest,…