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...The Romans gave us underfloor heating and the oculus; we offer crumbling concrete, microplastics and an avalanche of Nespresso pods....
...It is not plumbing industry hyperbole, either....
...Wolseley, the British plumbing and heating supplier, on Tuesday announced plans to rename itself after its dominant US business called Ferguson and sell its struggling Nordic unit, as the company also raised...
...Ferguson, the plumbing and heating supply company company formerly known as Wolseley, has posted a 9 per cent increase in both full-year revenue and trading profit at its ongoing businesses....
...Enduring lessons from this time included the importance of cultivating ministers....
...Although most care home operators have deleveraged since then, they say there has been no let-up in financial pressure as fixed costs such as heating and electricity have continued to grow faster than fees...
...A second industrial revolution grounded in electricity and the internal combustion engine (and, in some accounts, indoor plumbing) greatly boosted industrial productivity and economic growth starting in...
...The energy department says a normal winter after last year’s record-warm US winter will force households and businesses to burn more gas for heating in 2013....
...Small business owner Royden Evans believes PlumbNation – an online supplier of plumbing products to householders that has increased turnover from £1m to £14m in five years and now employs 18 staff – will...
...Wolseley , the distributor of plumbing and heating goods highly exposed to US markets, was 3.8 per cent weaker at £23.00....
...Mr Hall will be replaced on March 6 by Roddy Murray, who joins Pace from BSS Group, the plumbing and heating company that was bought by Travis Perkins....
...Roddy Murray, former numbers man of plumbing and heating group BSS, will join the company in May....
...Rok and a hard place Worried about its misfiring plumbing, heating and electrical business, Rok – like any concerned householder – called in an expert, who discovered “serious failings in the financial...
...The world’s leading distributor of heating and plumbing products said it expected trading profits for the year to July 31 to be ahead of analysts’ expectations of £374m....
...However, it acquired more clients including, in recent weeks, Wolseley, the heating and plumbing supplier, and Rexam, the packaging group, winning the mandates from UBS and Citigroup respectively....
...Nymex February heating oil added 1.6 cents to $1.6210 a gallon....
...Wolseley, the FTSE 100 plumbing, heating and building supplies chain, has called in three banks to act as advisers in case of a hostile bid approach after the recent plunge in its share price, people familiar...
...Wolseley, the world’s largest distributor of plumbing and heating products, said it would no longer pay its final dividend, saving £150m, as a downturn in key markets cut pre-tax profits by 35 per cent....
...Tim Evans of Citigroup said the majority of the fall in crude stocks could be attributed to the fog affecting the Houston Ship Channel....
...“We’re seeing a pretty consistently bearish picture,” said Tim Evans of Citigroup: “Demand is falling short of expectations and inventories are rising.”...
...“The biggest suprise was the build in gasoline (stocks) and that was really a function of sharply higher gasoline imports,” Tim Evans at Citigroup said....
...Distillate stocks (including heating oil) rose 2.3m barrels, more than double the consensus forecast for a 1m barrel rise....
...“And it’s materially less expensive and easier to design from scratch things like catchment areas for water, plumbing and recycling of water....
...Uponor fell 18.6 per cent to €20.41 after the Finnish plumbing and heating pipes maker chopped its 2007 sales guidance, blaming weakness in the US and German markets....
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