Home Textiles Today - March 28, 2005

New York — The bath category proved to be a hot place in home last year, earning a 2.8 percent gain in sales to $3.7 billion, according to HTT's annual bath report. Drawing their design inspiration from the spa and luxury markets, suppliers breathed new life into the solid color bath towel category by employing differentiated fiber technologies like bamboo, modal, silk and ...

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