The global residential outdoor storage products market is forecasted to grow at a rate of 3.96% during the period 2017-2021. That’s what a report from Technavio, a market research company, indicates. The company says residential outdoor storage products include storage sheds, plus decks and boxes that are used for storing[Read More…]
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Weyerhaeuser Names Stockfish Senior Vice President, Timberlands
Weyerhaeuser, one of the world’s largest private owners of timberlands and manufacturer of wood products, has appointed Devin Stockfish as senior vice president, Timberlands, the company reports. The change will take effect Jan. 1, 2018. Stockfish will replace Rhonda Hunter, who has elected to retire after 30 years with the[Read More…]
Ugly Shed Contest Proves to be a Winner
Helmuth Builders in Virginia has been striving to boost its online presence. They were brainstorming ways to draw traffic to its website and social media platforms, and then they realized—there are a lot of ugly sheds out there. By combining social media and ugly sheds, the inaugural Helmuth Builders Ugly[Read More…]
Have You Seen the World’s Fastest Shed?
It’s no secret that shed builders in England create some “interesting” sheds. Kevin Nicks, a gardener from Oxfordshire, decided to take his shed on the road. As fast as he could make it go. Nicks had a Volkswagen he was going to scrap. Instead, being a shed fanatic, he envisioned[Read More…]
Roseburg Acquires Timberland in Southeastern U.S.
Roseburg has acquired approximately 158,000 acres of investment-grade timberland in the southeastern United States from Forest Investment Associates (FIA), a timberland investment management organization, the company reports. The timberland is located around Roanoke Rapids, largely within the coastal region of North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, and has a strong history[Read More…]
Colorado Backyard Shed Builder Launches New Website
Innovative Structures has been serving the eastern slope of the Colorado Rockies with quality backyard sheds, prefab garages, and other outdoor structures since 2004. But one thing they were lacking was a robust online marketing program. The simple website in place failed to reflect the narrowing of their focus to backyard sheds,[Read More…]
Four Young Men Are Improving Louisville, One Lawn at a Time
For some residents of Louisville, Kentucky, the city isn’t what it used to be because of growing violence. A group of four teens, Travis, Demontae, Thomas, and Alan, are doing something to help improve their neighborhood. The young men mow lawns for free to help those in need in the community,[Read More…]
Swedish Wood Increasingly Global
Global demand for Swedish wood is constantly rising. In the first half of 2017, Södra, a forest owner association and international forestry group based in Sweden, says it delivered sawn timber to 38 counties, representing more than a 100 percent increase in geographic markets since 2005. More and more[Read More…]
Shed Builder Goes Nationwide … Online
The idea for Studio Shed started because its founder had too many mountain bikes and too little storage space. It grew into an online backyard buildings company that now provides high-design buildings from coast-to-coast. Since its inception in its founder’s backyard, Studio Shed has pushed the boundaries of the shed[Read More…]
Amish Shed Builder Prepares for Move to a New Location
There is a sense of loss as Sheds Unlimited prepares to exit the family farm in Gap, Pennsylvania, to move their manufacturing facility about 15 miles north to Morgantown. For nearly 25 years, the Sheds Unlimited team has enjoyed working on the fourth-generation family farm situated in the heart of[Read More…]
