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Combined U.S. factory shipments of central air conditioners and air-source heat pumps for July totaled 637,606, down 3% from July 2006 shipments.

The National Association of Realtors reported today a sharp drop in pending home sales for July, down 12.2 percent to the lowest levels in six years.

Joseph DeAngelo will remain with HD Supply as its chief executive officer.

Viessmann Manufacturing appointed Richard Corcoran as General Manager of Viessmann Manufacturing Company (U.S.) Inc.

The International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials (IAPMO) hired Pete DeMarco as its new Director of Special Programs.

Tavenner Wolseley plc (Reading, England) appointed Bill Tavenner to director of the new Commercial/Mechanical Business Group for its North American Division, which formerly was part of the Commercial Industrial Business

Cardinal Supply, part of the Century Group (Valparaiso, IN), named Brad Wright branch manager of its Goshen, IN, location. Wright has more than 25 years of wholesale supply business experience.

Ferguson (Newport News, VA) acquired the assets of Minneapolis-based Fire Fab, a distributor and fabricator of fire safety and suppression systems, from Brad Coons and David Wagner in July. Fire

Brothers Plumbing and Heating Supply Co., which operates an 8,000-sq.-ft. plumbing and heating wholesale firm in Elmsford, NY, about 20 miles from Manhattan, has become a stocking distributor of Takagi

The American Supply Association and the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling-Contractors Association announced Rick Franklin of Plumbers Supply, St. Louis, won the Network’07 Early Bird Registration contest.