Home Textiles Today - October 3, 2005

Quebec — Rosedale Draperies Inc., Montreal, a Canada-based home fashion fabric jobber, has acquired the exclusive distribution rights to the Curtains Up and Alhambra Drapery Hardware product lines for Quebec and the Atlantic provinces. The high-end curtain rods will continue to be manufactured by the Alhambra Drapery Company Limited out of Toronto.

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