HIGH POINT — The Suppliers Division of the American Home Furnishings Alliance (AHFA) has announced the winners of its scholarship awards for the 2007-2008 school year.

MINNEAPOLIS – The Midwest Group One family of companies, including Midwest Automation, Midwest Sandright, Randbright, Greco Manufacturing, ORMA Midwest, Midwest Manufacturing, Midwest Engineering and Midwest Parts & Service, will become brand names under the corporate Midwest Group One umbrella, as of July 1, 2007. Each “brand’s” respective logo will continue to be used for sales and marketing purposes only.

LOUISVILLE, KY – Rev-A-Shelf LLC has added Larry Gray to its direct sales force as an additional territory manager for the Southeast. Gray has previous experience selling cabinets. He will work out of Brandon, MS.

CHICAGO – The NeoCon World’s Trade Fair, North America’s largest conference and exhibition for interior design and facilities management, set new records for attendance and the number of exhibitors. In all, 52,632 people attended the event, held June 11-13 at The Merchandise Mart. The show also included more than 1,200 exhibitors, according to show management.

HIGH POINT – The Suppliers Division of the American Home Furnishings Alliance (AHFA) has announced a conference condensed into a compact eight-hour time frame August 9-10 at the Grandover Resort & Conference Center in Greensboro, NC. The conference is open to all industry executives.

DUBLIN, IRELAND – Research and Markets will be releasing a new report in July that examines the macroeconomic trends, investment environment, home office furniture industry structure and capacity, production and demand, market consumption trends, distribution channels and principal industry participants in China. The report also includes long-term forecasts for home office furniture production and demand.

PORTLAND, OR – Columbia Forest Products, in conjunction with Hercules Inc. and Dr. Kaichang Li of Oregon State University, received a Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the U.S.

ORANGE COUNTY, CA – Mark Loberg, founder and CEO of PremiereGarage LLC of Phoenix, AZ, was among seven companies to receive a regional Entrepreneur of the Year Award from Ernst & Young LLP.

GAITHERSBURG, MD —The Composite Panel Association (CPA) is offering a fact sheet designed to answer manufacturers’ questions about the new California regulations regarding formaldehyde emissions from composite wood panels. Copies of the fact sheet will be available from CPA at the upcoming AWFS Fair in Las Vegas or can be obtained by contacting Curt Alt at [email protected].