APRIL 2011 VOL 66, NO. 4
News of Plumbing • Heating • Cooling • Industrial Piping Distribution
Allied Group buys Specialty Piping Products
Kitchen/ Bath issue
HoUston — the allied Group ac- quired specialty Piping Products, lo- cated in st. charles, ill. now known as allied chrome, the company joins allied Fitting, warren alloy valve and Fitting, tectubi Raccordi s.p.a. and tRilaD Fittings and Flanges as part of the allied Group of companies. (Turn to Allied Chrome... page 47.)
Modern Supply promotes water conservation
Fort Worth, Texas-based Morrison Supply Co. has built a highly diversified distribution business, with 80 locations and 30 showrooms across Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas and Louisiana. Last year, Morrision significantly expanded its appliance offering by acquiring Builders Discount Appliance Mart in San Antonio. Read much more about Morrison and the Appliance Mart on page 32.
Some changes could be in store —
NKBA survey reveals 11 top kitchen and bath trends for 2011
Hackettstown, n.J. — More than 100 de- signers, who are members of the national
kitchen & Bath association and have de- signed kitchens or bathrooms during the last three months of 2010, participated in an nkBa sur- vey to reveal design trends in the marketplace for 2011. the results of this survey suggest that there will be some changes in the direction that kitchen and bath styles will take this year.
knoxville, tenn. — Modern sup- ply company has teamed up with the U.s. environmental Protection agency’s watersense program to offer consumers water-efficient product choices. Products are avail- able in their knoxville, chattanooga and Johnson city, tenn., show- rooms and at branch locations in se- vierville and crossville, tenn., and Bristol, va. (Turn to WaterSense... page 47.)
Following are seven kitchen and four
bathroom trends poised to take hold in 2011. these are overall trends across the U.s. and canada — although they won’t necessarily appear in all geographic areas. Kitchens
• Shake it up —the shaker style began
a rise in popularity in 2009 and gained mo- mentum in 2010. By the end of the year, shaker had supplanted contemporary as the second most popular style used by nkBa (Turn to Changing... page 78.)
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