Home Textiles Today - January 8, 2001

Think French countryside, retro contemporary, and finely drawn traditional, and lots of humor and whimsy on the Showtime fabric menu for fall '01.

• Business Today
• Redbook reveals slow December
• Purchase managers' index continues slide

• Fabrics Today
• Looks to look for
• Showtime creates vendor optimism

• News
• Family Dollar profits up from expansion, sales
• Audrey Table Linens added to VKO textiles
• Sears to close 89 stores
• NRF's Super Sessions
• JCPenney to add Joe Boxer
• NRF convention looks to future
• Home, textiles team named at DuPont
• Robert Allen launches home line
• Holiday good for brick-and-mortar websites
• In rash of retirements, Penney loses top execs
• Springs buys Maybank mill
• Stanton, Trans-Ocean team up in marketing alliance
• Chain sales show no holiday cheer
• Sphinx expands rug collection
• Nourison provides dealers tools to build websites
• Cotton Inc. campaign comes to life
• PatchKraft to expand
• Shaw shareholders approve acquisition
• Hanover Direct shifts focus to core catalogs
• Avanti adds Cheri Blum license for mini-market

• Opinion Today
• Kicking the habit
• Out of time

• People Today
• Mendl mktg. director with Albany Corp.
• Gaskins returns to HTT as ad director
• Kohl's to open over 55 new stores in 2001
• Quilt importer picks show director
• May names Gentilozzi as vp