As I write this, it has been less than a month since we all lost our friend, Mike Reis. Many of you had just seen him in Las Vegas for StonExpo|Marmomacc Americas. I am sure he had a notebook in hand and was running around making sure that he made it to all the pertinent seminars or demos -- and certainly to stop by booths to see what the latest innovations were and to discuss how things were going as the stone industry headed into 2014.
At StonExpo|Marmomacc Americas 2014, Mike Reis presented Blick Industries with an award for winning "Best of" in the New Product Marketplace, which was sponsored by Stone World as well as its sister BNP publications.