Home Textiles Today - November 5, 2001

In a fall market clouded with uncertainty about future economic conditions, HTT's post-market roundup revealed that vendors are trying to provide added value to wary consumers in a variety of ways.While not all of the new looks were well received, most buyers were surprisingly pleased with what was a broad assortment of colors and designs.

• Business Today
• Same-store sales flatten out
• Spiegel sales drop leads to 3Q loss
• Business briefs
• Consumer confidence plummets in October
• Existing home sales drag housing down

• News
• Sears promotes Domingue
• Capel brings textiles home with new Fifth Ave. showroom
• Kate Spade fashions home line
• The Great Indoors growth slows
• Martha Stewart, Shaw have floors covered
• Buffett strikes again; buys Fruit of the Loom
• BJ's comes together to compete
• House2Home suspends shipments
• Calvin, Nourison launch area rugs
• New book chronicles Owen family, Beacon
• Vendors to take their show out on the road
• Retail briefs
• Beacon promotes Wooding

• Opinion Today
• A tale of two markets

• People Today
• Oriental Weavers adds VanderWerf
• DMA honors Spiegel Grp. chairman