Home Textiles Today - September 17, 2001

The entire country slowed to a halt last week, as it tried to begin comprehending the terrorist disasters here and in Washington.Business nationwide was affected by the suspended action at the Stock Exchange and the cancellation of all airline travel, but mostly from the haunting images viewed on television.

• Business Today
• NAPM index heats up with August gains
• Cotton prices continue to fall
• Labor Day impacts Redbook avg.

• News
• Target to open store on Amazon
• Vendors, retailers help pitch in to the cause
• Springs adds exec. vp, cfo
• Business 'good' at Decosit, TIP
• Fall market goes ahead as planned
• Major mills experience 'business as usual'
• Textile, retail stocks plummet after halt
• TJX trust fund set up
• Bacova gets space at 295
• Retail briefs
• Vendors assess the fallout
• Cotton Inc. postpones design awards
• Pioneer company keeps hits coming
• Family tree branches out, again
• Pendleton gives up reservations about home fashions
• Guilford to close Cobleskill, NY, site

• Opinion Today
• Rising to the occasion
• Outpouring of support

• People Today
• Hunter Douglas adds Hagan as oper. mgr.
• Town & Country taps Scalice as exec. vp
• Bardwil hires senior vp
• Roger Milliken honored
• Turner resigns from post at Springs
• Croscill bolsters design team with Pelkaus