Home Textiles Today - April 23, 2001

NEW YORK — Both manufacturers and retailers went into the spring market bent on pursuing uniqueness, and HTT's post-market round-up of what hit and what didn't suggests that diversity won out. There is no one overarching theme to define the hit items of the recent market. Embroidery was all over the place, and for some such as S.

• Business Today
• Mohawk profits fall 20% in 1Q
• Business Briefs
• April sales to bring May profits?
• General retail sales steady for March

• Fabrics Today
• P/Kaufmann creates 2 Park Group umbrella
• Decorative jobbers proceed with caution
• SWATCHES

• News
• LNT shifts its strategy for textiles
• Burlington to shut window facility
• Joan auto biz sold to C&A
• IFDA sets date for Holiday Gala
• HomeSense hits Toronto market
• Metropolitan Home to enter textiles fray
• Croscill slips into furniture covers
• WPS firms infrastructure
• Jeff Stroud back in fold
• Gold Coast lights way for throws
• Sears reins in growth of Great Indoors
• Linens 'N Things skids to disappointing 1Q
• Polo taps Mitchell for licensing post
• Springs looks to jump earnings after 1Q loss
• Correction
• HTT's Sloan to speak at IFDA's Market Modes
• Retail briefs
• Hollander mgmt. shuffle continues
• WPS responds strongly to Meek exit with Sears

• Opinion Today
• Ol' goodies
• Retail alternatives
• LNT's big three

• People Today
• Pappas named vp at Sferra Bros.
• New sales manager for Textile Fabrics
• Elrene adds two to sales staff

• Retailing Today
• Stein Mart's unsung fashion statement —decorative fabrics