Home Textiles Today - March 26, 2001

HOFFMAN ESTATES, IL -Sears returns to downtown Chicago next month, with a store it is calling Sears on State.The 250,000-square-foot unit at State and Madison Streets is a historic building, originally occupied by The Boston Department Store. The new store, which opens May 23, is a full-line unit and is the company's seventh in Chicago.

• Big Preview
• ready.aim.aim.aim.
• Big Preview

• Business Today
• Redbook shows slight retail rebound
• Ames feels impact of closing stores
• Revised retail sales cloud February results
• Dillard's doubles its 4Q profits
• J.C. Penney debt cut to junk-bond status

• Fabrics Today
• CELANESE OPENS FABRICS LIBRARY
• SWATCHES
• Metaphores' fabric debut on cutting-edge
• Designer Ket takes fresh new direction
• SCOPERTA EXPO SEES RISE IN PARTICIPANTS

• News
• It's curtains for Melange Home
• Dwell blends bedding with geometric designs
• Northwest show date rescheduled
• Pacific Coast promotes Moen to coo
• Warner Bros. appoints execs
• Rugmark adds member as elson & company joins
• Restoration Hardware taps Friedman for ceo
• Berkshire launches new luxury cotton blankets
• Burlington announces several promotions
• Strouds finds buyer
• New executive for Sheridan
• Kaplan forms new consulting service
• International participation grows at NY Textiles Show
• Lucas comes to America
• Thomaston churns again
• Alice Mill's back to basics with Ellison
• HFPA concludes phase 1 of testing
• Kay Dee to enter table linens, scatter rugs
• Nachemin promoted
• Ashford Court covers all the bases
• HomeBase to conserve energy in CA, NV stores
• Spring market attracts 500 exhibitors to NY
• Park B. Smith makes Window magic
• Cotton picks good time to drop prices
• Home Outfitters expands
• Kmart looks to cut costs with golden parachutes
• Frette eyes juveniles with high-end bedding, bath
• Northwest extends kids licenses
• MoMA brings design store to SoHo
• Kohl's 4Q sales, earnings 'more like it' for results
• Mohawk to market artistic rugs
• D. Porthault comes to Arrelle Fine Linens stores
• C & B tests Entertaining catalog
• Cotton gains bigger share of fabrics
• LCI Lacee to exit manufacturing business
• Ginsey inks deal with designer Claire Murray

• Opinion Today
• Thinking big by thinking small
• To everything turn, turn, turn
• A new way to dress up sales

• Players Scorecard
• PLAYERS Scorecard
• PLAYERS Scorecard

• Retailing Today
• Bedding is not kids play for City Furniture
• Breuners provides opportunity
• Gabbert's specializes in more than furniture
• Furnishing the textiles industry
• Robb & Stucky grows by accessorizing

• Spring Market Rug Outlook
• Rug pricing rides the roller coaster
• Vendors mixed on whether juvenile rugs have matured