Home Textiles Today - December 2, 2002

The Bon-Ton Stores is maintaining low expectations for the holiday season, faced with a calendar yielding fewer holiday shopping days in a challenging retail environment. Sales are expected to be flat to up a point, said vice chairman and chief merchandising officer Frank Tworecke, during the company's third quarter conference call last month.

• Business Today
• Lagging auto business drives retail sales down
• Hancock drives sales, earnings up
• Retail sales skewed by calendar shift
• Jo-Ann on pace for strong year

• Fabrics Today
• Cone adds two senior executives
• Swatches
• Vets Rosenfeld, Lee create new fabric mill

• News
• DuPont backs Teflon with new ads
• CHF holds high hopes for Donna
• Shabby Chic in expansion mode
• Koch resigns from post
• Target floats into New York for holidays
• Retail briefs
• Arrow shifts direction with better-quality focus
• J.R. United integrates new facility
• P'tex bedding adds environmental appeal
• Juvenile bedding biz grows with accessories
• Richloom expands into top of bed
• Restoration eyes return to profitability
• U.S. Dept. of Commerce to host Heimtextil gala
• Balta USA gains new space for AmericasMart
• Retail Conference Calls
• Sonoma gets credit for new biz
• Home Depot keeps focus on everyday low prices
• Saks ups the ante with higher average tickets

• Opinion Today
• Independence day
• The fighting four

• People Today
• May names Williams pres., MDSI
• HSN adds two execs
• Arley brings back Reed
• Mohawk Home names vp
• Sony names Shapiro exec. director
• Goss to head new Universal division
• Couristan reorganizes sales markets
• D'huyvetter dies suddenly at 59

• Quarterly Results
• featured
• Saks cuts losses in 3Q despite sales decline
• HomeGoods boosts 3Q sales at TJX
• Jo-Ann closes in on end of turnaround
• Stein Mart 3Q sales driven by strong home results