Home Textiles Today - July 14, 2003

Balta USA Inc. recently completed a 40,000-square-foot expansion to its distribution center — which now encompasses 200,000 square feet total — here at its headquarters, Pat Moyer, president, told HTT. The one-year-old company, the American-based branch of its Belgium parent company The Balta Group, has updated its distribution center to be fully integrated, compu...

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