Home Textiles Today - January 27, 2003

Calm, freshness and lightness is how Expofil illustrates its range for next year, given people's search for simple pleasures, well-being and harmony. These soft and sensual colors are also closely linked to the materials in which they will appear. Washed and bleached, slightly acid vivid tones, gray tints and spicy hues revolve around warm neutrals.

• Business Today
• Dollar Tree grows Q4 profits
• Business briefs
• Business briefs
• Retail 'soft' in mid-Jan. reports
• Home biz leads textiles: ATMI study

• Fabrics Today
• Swatches
• Design thieves menace survival

• News
• Buyers search for value sweet spot
• Market goes 'corny' as Ingeo meets world
• Chereskin, Tobin/Maytex link up in holiday designs
• Briggs in as Perfect Fit's senior veep
• Investor picks up 5.5% stake in Crown Crafts
• Retail briefs
• Bloomies blows into Chicago
• WPS: good news and bad
• Letter to the editor
• Atlanta Rug Show Briefs
• Waiting for Kmart on 5th
• Comfortex debuts line
• Maps out, P'tex realigns sales force

• Opinion Today
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• People Today
• OWA promotes Stultz
• Balta names Prohm national sales manager
• Stanton boosts staff with two designers
• Jo-Ann Stores picks hardlines vp, gmm
• Anchor Home fills new nat'l sales mgr. post

• Special Report
• Colors
• Sude: Seeing double the possibilities
• Color Assn. trips the light fantastic
• Colors that soothe a savage world
• Inter Fashion offers an emotional weather report
• Milou Ket craves warmth in kitsch