The newswire has been hot this week, and we can barely keep up with all the announcements from companies such as Home Depot and American Standard exploring the option of selling-off underperforming business segments. Most of these decisions have come from the grumbling of shareholders and board members ready for a change.

What about your business? Are you listening to what your financials are telling you? Is it time to pull out of unprofitable markets? Or divest with under-performing employees? Maybe for you it's the opposite. Is it time to expand or pursue new opportunities?

Whatever your numbers are saying, be sure to pay attention. And be sure to get your industry news as it happens by bookmarking our Web site.

Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. must pay Hollywood producer Jeffrey Katzenberg $2.17 million to help replace Entran II heating hoses in his Deer Valley, Utah, vacation home.

Edward Sexton became the 50,000th technician to be certified by HVAC Excellence in North America.

811 is the new FCC-designated national N-11 number created to eliminate confusion of multiple "Call Before You Dig" numbers across the country.

PM columnist Ellen Rohr has filmed a program for Public Television called “Is There A Business In YOU?” Filmed in front of a live studio audience, Rohr explores how to start and grow your own winning business using her Bare Bones Biz Plan.

More than 47,000 HVACR professionals attended the 59th AHR Expo in Dallas, Jan. 29-31 making it the largest show ever in the Southwest.

For the year, private residential spending fell 1.7%; private nonresidential surged 16%; and public spending increased 10%.

Lochinvar celebrates 20 years of reliable Power-Fin performance with several enhancements to the time-proven design including higher turndown ratio and a standard internal cascading sequencer.

Spirotherm Inc. manufactures the Spirotrap Junior dirt separators for residential or light commercial hydronic systems.

Winning products were chosen for their ability to help industry professionals best provide safer, healthier, more efficient and/or more comfortable indoor environments.