In a departure from my usual Editorial Comment format, I decided this month to go with a digest style of sorts as a means of doling out various morsels of industry news that to this point may have escaped your attention...
Monticello Carpet Mills returns. Yanoor Corp. chairman and CEO Saeid Korhani, who purchased Burlington Industries carpet and rug plants in Monticello, Ark., has restarted Monticello Carpet Mills. Heading the operation are: Mike DeGrace (formerly of Beaulieu), vp sales; John McLeod (formerly with Mohawk Home), vp sales for the Burlington Rugs Division of Yanoor Corp.; Vernon Gordon, vp manufacturing; and Lawrence Cole (formerly with Queen and Beaulieu), Yanoor vp operations.