Home Textiles Today - March 10, 2008

Bedding product sales, marketing and design firm International Home Fashions (IHF) and Amtex, a major Pakistan-based bedding supplier, have announced an agreement for IHF to represent Amtex in the United States to certain key retailers. "We are very pleased IHF will be representing us in the U.

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