Technology

When we launched our “Shoplifter of the Week” feature, the brainchild of San Diego-based senior...

Bill Hamilton, merchandising VP electrical for the Home Depot, has a challenge on his hands. How do you explain simply and clearly the complicated changes taking place in the fast-changing category of light bulbs? 


There are already more than 100 energy-efficient bulb options on Home Depot shelves today, and a multiyear phaseout of incandescent bulbs will begin in January 2012. 


Floor care products make perfectly acceptable holiday gifts, according to research just released by The NPD Group. In its consumer tracking study, conducted between November 2010 and October 2011, the market research firm discovered that 6% of all floor care appliances -- the majority of them vacuums -- were purchased as a gift for someone else. And in half of the purchases, the item was intended as a Christmas or Hanukkah gift.

The lawsuit, filed May 2009 in a federal court in Wisconsin, said that the manufacturers...

Two of the nation’s largest dealers of green building materials became one this week when Green Depot purchased Ecohaus, a Pacific Northwest icon, creating an East-West network of environmentally friendly LBM stores. 

The maker of polypropylene fabric and fibers has hired Ralph Bruno to head a new...

Housewares manufacturer reported that first-quarter sales fell 5.4 percent to $98.19 million from $103.79 million last year....

The A. O. Smith Water Products Co. plant in Juarez, Mexico, recently was certified as...