Home Textiles Today - June 18, 2001

There was plenty of sunshine as Context's 7th annual conference brought together retailers and manufacturers to consider the changes in the home textiles industry. Themed "A Brand New Day," the conference explored the increasingly global structure of home textiles manufacturing, non-conventional approaches to home textiles retailing and the economic outlook for the ho...

• Business Today
• NAPM shows pace of slowdown speeds up
• Cotton supply growth drops prices
• Value City records 1Q loss of $7.8M
• Business briefs
• Redbook avg. has slow start in June
• Culp restructuring nets 4Q loss

• Fabrics Today
• Swatches
• New Quaker division sharpens price points
• Suppliers see struggle ahead

• News
• LFP to choose site for new plant
• 828 names Beard vp, broadloom
• Economist Naroff bullish on textiles
• Noonoo partners with Radici USA on area rugs
• Retail briefs
• Retailers realize the importance of brand
• Executives tackle importing issues
• Ryland touts benefits of global focus
• Springs dreams up latest in ad series
• Ettore aims to improve results for Ames in '01
• P'tex to restore cachet to Royal Velvet brand
• Licensing show a hit for textiles
• Springs shuffles deck with Gaffney, Shealy
• Springs to offer line of Rockwell
• Thomaston issues warning
• WestPoint stock takes major hit
• Al Greenwood, 'Bedspread King,' dead at 93
• Keeco raises stakes, profile
• CIT labels table linens as festive articles
• 828 broadens into broadloom
• Big Lots has big plans for textiles
• Burlington appoints two

• Opinion Today
• ¿Qué pasa?
• Wal-Mart comes out swinging

• Special Report
• The Facts: Window Coverings
• Discount, specialty widen gap