Home Textiles Today - June 25, 2001

JCPenney has announced the winners of its 18th annual Supplier Diversity Development Awards, the offshoot of a program through which the J.C. Penney corporation purchased more than $580 million in goods and services last year. The winner in the home division was C&F Enterprises, Newport News, VA, producer of decorative quilts and bedding accessories.

• Business Today
• Housing market building up steam
• General merch. sales hit freefall in May
• P'tex sales drop elicits loss of $51M
• Delia's records 1Q losses of $8.3M
• BBB widens retail gap with 1Q profit spike
• Redbook average edges up 1.6%

• Fabrics Today
• Corn debuts as fiber at Neocon
• Interface Fabrics adds to Terratex

• Features
• HFPA members tee it up on their own

• News
• Retail briefs
• Burlington exits rug biz with sale of Bacova
• Bluefly Inc. streamlines operations
• Hunter Douglas targets Gen Y
• Whitehead finds home as Domestications vp, merch.
• Hudson fills void with latex-like pillow
• Dekor cuts work force in effort to slash costs
• Capel comes back to 295 Fifth
• Mohawk licenses Kinkade
• New facility for Hellenic
• Sale looms as Thomaston files
• Home business drives Penney growth
• Federated buys Liberty

• Opinion Today
• And then there were...
• Taking up residence

• People Today
• Springs Baby division to lose chief
• Neiman Marcus taps two
• Radici names new gm
• Burlington adds two to sales force
• May Dept. Stores promotes three
• Shupp new sales head at Stanton