Home Textiles Today - May 13, 2002

At the spring home textiles market, retail buyers were exposed to a wider array of new looks and designs than in previous markets as more manufacturers look to differentiate through new product. The following comments provide a glimpse of those designs that caught the attention of buyers from across several channels.

• Business Today
• Textiles start to look like a deal
• Retail sales get boost from home
• Same-store sales sluggish in April
• Manufacturing grows for third straight month

• Fabrics Today
• Swatches
• Chris Stone reshapes with new identity, logo
• Joan Fabrics plans world-class facility
• Fabric firms enjoy Hospitality show

• News
• Toland salutes home with new rugs
• ABC Carpet & Home adds to boutique biz
• Georgia mills weather the storm
• Hudson's Bay brings brands together
• UNITE implicated in lawsuit
• Federated's Fingerhut sale falls through
• Sears looks to reinvent Great Indoors format
• Saks widens reach of new home department
• Retail briefs
• UF&D has designs on deal with Chereskin
• LNT reworks the mix as new initiatives roll out
• New KRU brand taking hold

• Opinion Today
• Lizzie's back in town
• Behind the veil