Home Textiles Today - October 27, 2003

Worth roughly $550 million in retail sales by some estimates, decorative pillows continue to be a lucrative business, made all the more attractive by the facility with which companies may expand them as coordinates to other offerings through imports, particularly from China and India.

• Business Today
• Quaker Fabrics recovers in Q3
• Unifi posts $4.6 million quarterly loss
• Tues. Morn. up 62% in Q3
• Dan River downgraded
• Shops hope for return to happy days
• Wellman down in 3Q
• Surging sales drive Q3 profits higher

• News
• Color top trend, and outdoor fabrics move in
• Tuesday Morning snuggles much deeper into home
• Jacobs rises to head all Keeco sales, marketing
• Pacific Designs ramps up creative touch
• LNT sees bed, bath bounce
• Silk major trend at High Point
• Overstock.com branching out
• Cooper-Hewitt fetes design leaders
• Workers walk; Main St. ops to close
• Pacific Coast broadens resources
• Retail briefs
• WL Ross gets Burlington
• Still fresh, Melrose seeks bold & beautiful
• Calvin home adds more super-luxe
• McCaffrey boss of Springs' kiddie biz
• Target seeks P'tex chargebacks
• Fashion Inds: Rugs still a focus

• Opinion Today
• The Monster mash
• Night moves in the jungle