Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, May 31, 1990 TAG: 9005310140
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: A-11 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: GEORGE KEGLEY BUSINESS EDITOR
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
The acquisition gives MW, a division of the British company Hanson Industries, a total of eight manufacturing and distribution locations and about 1,200 employees. MW was established in 1939.
BiltBest, started in 1959, has plants in Advance and Ste. Genevieve, Mo. About one-third the size of MW, it makes aluminum clad and primed wood windows and patio doors for new construction and remodeling markets.
Mike Harman, MW president, said the acquisition extends his company's market territory from the Southeast and middle Atlantic into the Midwest. This expansion "further positions MW to supply a national construction market," Harman said.
MW's other operations are a building material distribution center, cutting operation and a plant making bifold doors at Fayetteville, N.C.; a bifold door plant at Miami, Fla. and a distribution center at Elkridge, Md.
Its sister companies in the Hanson Building Products Cos. include Jacuzzi, Ames Tools, Brown Moulding Co. and Piedmont Moulding. Grove Worldwide, the crane manufacturer opening a Salem plant, also is a Hanson subsidiary.
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