Home Textiles Today - December 17, 2001

Spider-Man Merchandising L.P., a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, has expanded its breadth of home textiles goods with four new licensees.Leading the pack is Atlanta-based Dan River Inc., which will manufacture domestically a line of poly-cotton blended sheets, comforters, bed skirts, window treatments, non-woven blankets, decorative pillows, travel pillo...

• Business Today
• Pace of layoffs slows slightly in Nov.
• Cotton prices pick up slightly
• Dan River cost-cutting could net bigger 4Q loss
• Redbook avg. drops in December
• Manufacturing pace picks up in November

• Fabrics Today
• Fab explores possibility of sale
• Swatch
• Richloom weaves in synergies

• News
• Retail sales decline despite home growth
• Outlast branches out into bedding
• Park B. Smith adds to staff
• Matteo's first and ABC's latest: in-store boutique a hit
• Industry says farewell to true gentleman
• HSN to grow soft home with Iodice
• Retail briefs
• Woolrich brings home new format
• Sferra brings back two
• Heimtex shows updated look
• American Textile Co. plans new HQ
• WPS 'stretches' cotton sheet lineup
• Supima Association touts benefits in new ad campaign
• ABC Carpet renames Afghani rug collections
• Elrene takes Nautica into kitchen textiles
• Ptex won't sell bath plant

• Opinion Today
• Below the belt
• Cost of consolidation

• People Today
• Textillery owners honored
• Shafran tapped at Springs
• Ex-Cell's Panariello to retire
• Springs names Raggio as vp, team leader