<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905172789771813987</id><updated>2011-09-23T10:58:41.956-07:00</updated><category term='economy'/><category term='construction'/><category term='oshkosh designs'/><category term='housing'/><category term='acquistion'/><category term='brenda kubasta'/><title type='text'>Oshkosh Designs- Talking The Talk</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oshkoshdesigns.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3905172789771813987/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oshkoshdesigns.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Oshkosh Designs</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07175589603078449454</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rBMIQYQabRQ/S6zdYnNO4HI/AAAAAAAAAAM/YImz7XqmCm4/S220/fbpf.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905172789771813987.post-5987504415270687905</id><published>2011-04-14T08:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-19T07:50:32.406-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brenda kubasta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oshkosh designs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acquistion'/><title type='text'>Oshkosh Designs® Seamlessly  Transfers To New Ownership</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XA0Xt3kasuo/Ta2g6nsl-qI/AAAAAAAAABI/saK2LlPaXP0/s1600/bk2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XA0Xt3kasuo/Ta2g6nsl-qI/AAAAAAAAABI/saK2LlPaXP0/s200/bk2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597306840840272546" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Winneconne, Wis.&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(April 14, 2011) —&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:times new roman;" &gt; Oshkosh Designs is pleased to announce that Brenda Kubasta, current president of Oshkosh Designs, has attained ownership of the brand and all of its assets effective April 14, 2011.&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;p  class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Brenda has held the position of President with Oshkosh Designs, dba Oshkosh Floor Designs, for the last six years and has an extreme passion for the Oshkosh Designs brand. This passion has driven her to move into the position of sole ownership of the Oshkosh Designs brand.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Oshkosh Designs, now dba Oshkosh Floor Designs Acquisition LLC, will continue to do business out of the Winneconne, WI manufacturing facility with Brenda remaining in the position of President/CEO. &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p  class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"&gt;“I have always found this product line to be exhilarating,” commented new owner/president Brenda Kubasta. “For the last 20 years this company has been making it happen for our customers. It was of utmost importance this acquisition did not affect our customers or production of product in any way, and we are pleased to say it did not.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p  class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"&gt;When asked about the future plans for Oshkosh Designs Kubasta replied, “We plan on continuing to be the go-to decorative flooring experts. Our customers rely on our knowledge of parquet and inlay and our unrivaled lead times. The company’s core competencies remain the same and the Oshkosh Designs team of master artisans continues to produce beautiful parquet and inlay. This acquisition will allow us to remain competitive in today’s market and continue to grow our brand and product offerings.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3905172789771813987-5987504415270687905?l=oshkoshdesigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oshkoshdesigns.blogspot.com/feeds/5987504415270687905/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://oshkoshdesigns.blogspot.com/2011/04/oshkosh-designs-seamlessly-transfers-to.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3905172789771813987/posts/default/5987504415270687905'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3905172789771813987/posts/default/5987504415270687905'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oshkoshdesigns.blogspot.com/2011/04/oshkosh-designs-seamlessly-transfers-to.html' title='Oshkosh Designs® Seamlessly  Transfers To New Ownership'/><author><name>Oshkosh Designs</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07175589603078449454</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rBMIQYQabRQ/S6zdYnNO4HI/AAAAAAAAAAM/YImz7XqmCm4/S220/fbpf.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XA0Xt3kasuo/Ta2g6nsl-qI/AAAAAAAAABI/saK2LlPaXP0/s72-c/bk2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905172789771813987.post-1624604515049765165</id><published>2010-04-15T07:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-15T07:57:14.837-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='housing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='construction'/><title type='text'>Shortage of housing?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span id="redesign_default"&gt;Interesting news posted at denverpost.com....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"What's also encouraging is that the  recession's severity has left much pent-up demand. Mark Zandi of Moody's  &lt;a href="http://economy.com/"&gt;Economy.com&lt;/a&gt; reckons that the  underlying need for housing totals about 1.85 million units a year.  Meanwhile, home and apartment construction is running at 600,000 a year.  "We're working down a high inventory of unsold homes," says Zandi, "but  housing will come back.""&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3905172789771813987-1624604515049765165?l=oshkoshdesigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oshkoshdesigns.blogspot.com/feeds/1624604515049765165/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://oshkoshdesigns.blogspot.com/2010/04/shortage-of-housing.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3905172789771813987/posts/default/1624604515049765165'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3905172789771813987/posts/default/1624604515049765165'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oshkoshdesigns.blogspot.com/2010/04/shortage-of-housing.html' title='Shortage of housing?'/><author><name>Oshkosh Designs</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07175589603078449454</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rBMIQYQabRQ/S6zdYnNO4HI/AAAAAAAAAAM/YImz7XqmCm4/S220/fbpf.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
