Masco Corporation will receive nearly $256,000 in property taxes it paid in 2011 on its former Mill's Pride ready-to-assemble cabinet manufacturing compound.

HULL, ENGLAND -- Former Mill's Pride owner Malcolm Heaely is back to work making kitchen cabinets in his native England.

WAVERLY, OH --The city of Waverly, rocked by the loss of Mill's Pride cabinets and 1,200 related jobs, approved a new tax incentive program to promote expansion or bring new businesses that will create jobs.

Workers displaced by the closing of Mill's Pride, the ready-to-assemble cabinet plant in Waverly, OH, owned by Masco Corp., will receive $4,593,515 in aid from the U.S. Department of Labor.

Last week's news report about Scanwood Canada's slide into financial insolvency is the latest reminder that selling to big box stores - IKEA, in this case - has its pluses and minuses.

It wouldn't be the first time I added 2 and 2 and got 5, but the fact that Ashley Furniture is eyeing Furniture Brand's Thomasville RTA furniture plant in Virginia, makes me wonder if it is the unnamed company that had made a play for Mill's Pride's RTA cabinet plant in Ohio.

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WAVERLY, OH -- The end is near of two Mill's Pride cabinetry plants and the 1,200 people who work at them.

WAVERLY, OH -- Gov. Ted Strickland said the state is continuing its search for a potential buyer of the Mill's Pride cabinet facilities that Masco Corp. plans to close early next year.

WAVERLY, OH -- Three parties have expressed interest in purchasing some of Mill's Pride's facilities in Waverly and Seal Township, according to the Chillicothe Gazette.