The new environmentalism

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A change in consumer interest in environmentalism from the social aspects to the personal aspects will have a major influence on their purchases of home repair and building materials. A 1996 Home Improvement Research Institute survey found consumers are no longer concerned with use of scarce resources, excess packaging or forest protection but want energy and water savings, smog control and indoor air quality. Ace Hardware Corp. and Home Depot Inc. have become leaders in consumer education on the environment and in other environmental efforts.

Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing, Do-It-Yourself Building Materials (Ret, Resources, Environment & Energy, Administration of Air and Water Resource and Solid Waste Management Programs, STONE, CLAY, AND GLASS PRODUCTS, Construction Materials, Economic aspects, Building materials industry, Environmental aspects, Natural resources, Building materials, Public opinion, Environmental policy, Environmental movement, Environmentalism, Do-it-yourself products industry

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19 stores in 19 years

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Hardware Wholesalers Chmn of the board Robert Plummer financed R.P. Lumber Inc's operations by using the annual rebate checks he received from HWI. R.P. Lumber, the 19-store lumber yard chain, operates stores in towns of 5,000 to 20,000 people, and offers quality products and services to contractors and do-it-yourself customers. Plummer plans to expand his company's commercial business and adopt HWI's new Vision Pricing program that allows warehouse purchases at lower prices.

Lumber & Bldg Materials, Retail, Management, Cover Story, Lumber-yards, Lumberyards, Plummer, Robert, R.P. Lumber Company Inc.

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Hechinger opens 3-level unit in Washington, D.C

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Hechinger Co has opened a three-level store in Washington, D.C., which will help satisfy that underserved market. The new store, Home Project Center, is closer to the hybrid store that the firm will eventually build, which will be a combination Hechinger/Home Quarters. The new store has also helped firm officials realize that they can open units in dense urban areas because Hechinger remodeled a former Sears building instead of building a new facility.

BUILDING MATERIALS & GARDEN SUPPLIES, Home Center Stores, Retail trade, Location, Washington, D.C., Hechinger Co., HECHA

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