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Friday Dec 11 | The Tennessean

Workers protest homebuilders in Cool Springs

With a giant inflatable pig in tow, workers from Michigan-based Pulte Homes, Inc.

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Related Topix: Construction, Pulte

Wed Dec 09, 2009

The Austin Chronicle

Point Austin: When a House Is Not a Home

One sign that the housing market is still in pretty bad shape is that when protesters show up at a home builder's office doorstep it's no longer there.

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Related Topix: Austin, TX, Construction, Centex, TX, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Tue Dec 08, 2009

MyFoxDFW

Protest Group Storms Centex Lobby

Converging on North Texas from across the country, a group of angry homeowners and workers took a loud protest to the front steps of one of the nationa s biggest homebuilders.

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Related Topix: Construction, Centex, TX, Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX, Pulte

Thu Dec 03, 2009

Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce

Centex switches gears, builds 'opportunistically'

Photo courtesy of Pulte Homes [enlarge] Centex is developing Sinclair Woods in Bothell.

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Related Topix: Construction

Thu Nov 26, 2009

Azcentral.com

Fast moves help homebuilders battle slump

Long exposure to the market's brutality has whipped executives at two publicly owned homebuilders into a business-casual Delta Force.

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Related Topix: Construction, Meritage Corporation, Pulte, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Mon Nov 23, 2009

Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal

Pulte starting three MN communities

Pulte Homes Inc. announced Monday that it is opening three new communities in the Twin Cities that will eventually have 150 new homes.

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Related Topix: Construction, Pulte, Plymouth, MN, The Lakes, MN, Maple Grove, MN, Shakopee, MN

Sun Nov 22, 2009

The Tennessean

Pulte's size gives it cash safety net

For the homebuilding industry, the past two years have been a disaster. The largest homebuilder in the Nashville area, Pulte, has lost money for three straight years, and overall home-building permits here are less than half of levels seen two years ago.

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Related Topix: Nashville Metro, Nashville, TN, Home Building, Home, Economics News, Bankruptcy, Construction, Marketing

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Miami Herald

Pulte Homes CFO exercises expiring stock options

Pulte Homes Inc. lost $361.4 million in the third quarter, but with the acquisition of Centex Corp., the homebuilder's new orders increased by more than a third.

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Related Topix: Construction, Pulte, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Beazer Homes USA, Rehabcare Group, Apparel, Footwear, KSwiss

Mon Nov 09, 2009

Myrtle Beach Online

Earnings Preview: Beazer Homes to post 4Q results

Homebuilder Beazer Homes USA Inc. reports earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Construction, Beazer Homes USA, Pulte, Housing, Bloomfield Hills, MI, MDC Holdings

Fri Nov 06, 2009

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Home sales halted at Godfrey's River's Edge

Village officials say The Jones Company has halted sales at River's Edge, an 82-acre residential development launched in 2007 that was expected to have more than 300 homes.

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Related Topix: Godfrey Road, FL, Construction

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Alton Telegraph

Subdivision falls short

Developers who promised hundreds of homes in a multiple-phase subdivision along Airport Road are suspending their plans.

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Related Topix: Construction, Godfrey Road, FL

WHAS-TV Louisville

Pulte Homes, Merck, Garmin are big movers

The following stocks were among those that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange: NYSE: Pulte Homes Inc., up 32 cents at $9.55 Pulte lost $361.4 million in the third quarter, but with the acquisition of Centex Corp., new orders increased by more than a third.

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Related Topix: Construction, Pulte, Biotech, Merck , Cable & Satellite, Garmin, Telecom, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Financial Markets, Insurance, Ambac Financial Group

Wed Nov 04, 2009

The US Market Blog

Pulte Homes, Inc. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript

Pulte Homes, Inc. November 4, 2009 8:30 am ET Executives Jim Zeumer - " VP of Investor and Corporate Communications Richard Dugas - " Chairman, President and CEO Roger Cregg - " EVP and CFO Steve Petruska - " EVP and COO Mike Schweninger - " VP and Controller Analysts Megan McGrath - " Barclays Capital Michael Rehaut - " JPMorgan Dave Goldberg - " ...

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Related Topix: Construction, Pulte

Fri Sep 18, 2009

Detnews.com - Business

Centex held out of Pulte's Michigan mix

Bloomfield Hills-based Pulte Homes Inc. is now America's largest home builder, but the company it recently acquired, which targets entry-level buyers, will bypass Michigan for now.

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Related Topix: Construction, Pulte, Michigan, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Farmington Hills, MI, Detroit Metro

Tue Sep 15, 2009

PR-inside.com

Pulte Homes Operations Rank Highest in Customer Satisfaction in...

Pulte Homes operations have received the highest ranking for the sixth consecutive year for customer satisfaction in the Tucson market, according to the results announced today for the 2009 J.D. Power and Associates New-Home Builder Customer Satisfaction Study SM .

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Related Topix: Construction, Pulte, Advertising, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Fri Sep 11, 2009

WTTV Indianapolis

Shareholders approve takeover of Centex by rival homebuilder Pulte Homes

In this combo made from file photos, a Pulte Homes sign is seen at a Pulte Homes complex in Sunnyvale, Calif., top, and a Centex Homes is seen in a subdivision in Lewisvile, Texas.

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Related Topix: Construction, Pulte, Dallas Metro

Thu Sep 10, 2009

Advertising Age

Former Chrysler CMO Deborah Wahl Meyer Finds New Home at Pulte

Deborah Wahl Meyer, former VP-chief marketing officer of Chrysler, has joined Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based home-building company Pulte Homes as senior VP-CMO, a newly created position.

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Related Topix: Construction, Pulte, Marketing, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Home Building, Home

Thu Sep 03, 2009

D Magazine

Dallas Real Estate: Centex Loses Chief Counsel

Brian Woram, senior vice president, chief legal officer, chief compliance officer, and really great guy, is leaving Centex to become senior VP and general counsel of Kansas-City based H&R Block.

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Related Topix: Construction, Financial Services, Accounting, H and R Block

Tue Sep 01, 2009

Kansas City Business Journal

H&R Block hires new general counsel

H&R Block Inc. has hired Brian Woram as senior vice president and general counsel, effective Sept.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Accounting, H and R Block, Construction

Mon Aug 31, 2009

Internet Retailer

GameStop announces management shift

GameStop Corp., video game and entertainment software retailer, announced that Catherine R. Smith has joined the company as executive vice president and chief financial officer.

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Related Topix: Retail, GameStop, Video Games, Construction

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