Home Textiles Today - July 27, 2009

This year's back-to-school / back-to-college season, which at most stores already started, is being watched closely by retailers and suppliers alike. The way shoppers react to product and their spending levels in the coming weeks could very well indicate their spending behavior later this year into the critical fourth quarter.

• News
• Designer malene b. Launches Company and Website
• Italian Mills to Shake up Design
• Target Opens 23 New Stores
• Retail Briefs
• Home Comfort and Homefires Go to the Dogs for Atlanta Market
• Surya Debuts Five-Piece Sets, Candice Olson Marketing Tools and Fresh Kids Patterns
• Vicente Wolf to be Lauded as Design Icon
• NYIGF Upgrades Website
• Firms Wait for CIT's Other Shoe to Drop
• Foreign Accents Moves into New High Point Showroom
• Licensing Helps Deliver 'Something Different'
• Peking Handicraft Debuts Fishbein Collections
• Industry Remembers Retail Innovator Kirsimagi
• The Northwest Co. Wins Award for Sports Program
• cmi Photo Contest to Raise Profile for Sample Centers
• Showroom Scorecard: Who is Where at 295, 230 and 7W
• AATCC Establishes Two New Student Chapters
• Study: Hispanic Shoppers More Confident in Economy
• Jewel the face of Carpenter Consumer Promotion
• Supplier Rajboori Looks Ahead
• Price Cuts Help Push Comps Down

• Opinion Today
• Ups and Downs of the Economy
• The Consumer of Today