Home Textiles Today - December 8, 2003

The jury is still out on how heavy Santa's sack will be this holiday, but the mailman's bag was certainly bulging as the selling season got underway. Snowflakes stand out as this year's iconographic motif. Silvers, blues and whites are this year's alternative to the sweeping presence of red. In home textiles, many catalogers continue to de-emphasize holiday-specific novelty looks in favor ...

• Business Today
• Gottschalks continues to dig out
• Nov. chill fails to cool '04 outlook
• Momentum keeps up the pace
• Acquisition drags Bon-Ton 3Q results
• November order rate hits a 20-year high

• News
• Revived brands to face hurdles
• Home performs AOK in early Holiday buys
• Ex-retailer Dale passes
• Home & Harmony branching out
• A 50 pct. add-on has Arlee DC in the clouds
• Kmart cuts losses, bumps margin
• HFPA sets meet date
• Pierre Deux adds on
• Purcell regroups after shake-up
• Retail briefs
• Cuddledown opens second outlet store
• Chains fight the grinch who might steal season
• Flame standards debate burns on

• Opinion Today
• ...and a new bike, and a super fantastic gameboy...
• New year's challenges

• People Today
• Board shake-up as new owner recaps Hanover
• Succession plan outlined
• DDB named Cotton's new ad agency
• Big Lots taps Martin exec veep
• Kas Oriental Rugs appoints Gonzalez eastern sales veep
• Restoration coo Bazzone steps down
• Kmart adds two senior executives
• Realigned divisions lose 100 jobs