Home Textiles Today - July 25, 2005

New York — Wal-Mart continued to lead the home textiles retail sales derby in 2004, picking up $310 million, bringing its total to $3.36 billion, up 10.2 percent from 2003. But in contrast to 2003, Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart lost some of its dollar lead to JCPenney, which held on to second place with 2004 home textiles revenues of $2.

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