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November 2, 2012
One-on-one with STAFDA executive director Georgia Foley

Georgia Foley has been the executive director of the Specialty Tools & Fasteners Distributors Association (STAFDA) since 2000, but her involvement with the trade organization dates to when she was barely a teenager, when she helped her father — founder Morrie Halvorsen — run the operation out of the family basement.

Through the years, Foley has seen membership grow in numbers and stature even though STAFDA has maintained the same dues rates it first established in 1977.

February 10, 2012
Joint Center points to housing opportunities

Orlando, Fla. -- The bar charts and graphs told a complicated construction story that was interpreted with a certain degree of optimism by a Harvard economist.

Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University economist Kermit Baker gave his presentation during the Presidents Council advisory board meeting held Wednesday here at the Orange County Convention Center.

January 17, 2011
NextGen home at 2011 IBS donated to veteran

Orlando, Fla. -- The 2011 NextGen "Flex-Home" is focused on four home-building buzzwords: green, efficient, safe and digital.

Another term could be "patriotic."

The modular home currently residing in the IBS Show Village in the parking lot outside the Orange County Convention Center here in Orlando will soon be shipped away to a veteran in need through the Rebuilding Together charity and Sears' Heroes at Home.

January 5, 2011
New American Home to entertain at IBS

The International Builders' Show, the home building industry's largest convention, will convene in Orlando, Fla., next week, Jan. 12 to 15. 

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) event, held in the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, will feature cutting-edge designs, technologies, and products for all segments of the industry, according to show organizers. Among those designs is The New American Home, now in its 28th year.

October 28, 2010
Dealing with pain, looking for growth

Orlando, Fla. -- Ace Hardware pointed to record attendance, international growth and an overhaul of...

February 14, 2008
Builders’ Show begins in Orlando

Orlando, Fla. -- The International Builders’ Show kicked off in earnest Wednesday morning here at...

February 11, 2008
Orlando gears up to welcome International Builders’ Show

IBS is being held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Feb. 13-16. Major...

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