Home Textiles Today - May 5, 2003

Writer Thomas Wolfe said you can't go home again. And yet rug suppliers are finding that they want to be with mom 'n pop. Although most major home textiles suppliers have narrowed their focus to romancing the largest national chains, area and scatter rug suppliers have discovered store and company size doesn't always matter.

• Business Today
• China demand drives cotton higher
• Business briefs
• One-month surge highest since 1991
• Martha Q1 not a good thing
• Same-stores don't reflect confidence
• Quaker sees profits cut in half

• News
• DuPont textile division creates prez, board slots
• Regional merchandise strategy rolls at LNT
• Retail briefs
• Christy bows line, logo
• IFDA hosts program
• Salzburg brings its rugs to show
• Zorlu finds an 'easy' window appeal
• GLM ups Sikalis' role
• ShopKo Stores taps vp
• Branded to the core at Kohl's
• Classic vistas across 5th and market
• Beacon taps Midwest exec
• Vietnam agreement blasted
• Masters of Linen labels separate it from pack
• Pier 1's drama: 'As the store turns'
• Cafaro to head mktg at Terrisol
• Dante Living going nationwide
• Williams-Sonoma looks north to grow
• Kmart names counsel
• 8 home stores to close in Eddie Bauer cutback
• Joan Fabrics signs jac joint venture in China
• Wal-Mart staying ahead of SARS
• Initial NY sourcing show proceeds as planned
• Tradition makes linens a Taylor family business
• Proud Pratesi rides into textiles show
• Woolrich names director

• Opinion Today
• (Close) shave and a haircut
• A higher calling