Home Textiles Today - July 26, 2004

Wal-Mart has become the first $3 billion retailer in the home textiles world with sales of $3.05 billion in 2003. Interestingly, Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart barely increased its lead over JCPenney, the long-time No. 1 home textiles player. And Penney, despite a good year in home textiles, just managed to keep ahead of Target, now firmly in third place in the home textiles...

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