Home Textiles Today - March 19, 2012

NEW YORK - On the eve of a week devoted to fabrics, constructions, picks and piles, HTT devoted its second semiannual ConText session to a wide-ranging look at developments in materials of all kinds on March 4.

• Business Today
• Spring Merch Lifts Comps
• Retail Container Traffic to Increase 10% in March
• Bon-Ton Stores Cites Mild Winter for Decreased Fourth-Quarter Profits
• WestPoint Looks for Improvement in 2nd Half

• Design Today
• In-Store Review

• News
• PCHF Promotes Rae; Launches Austin Horn Bath
• Klear Vu hires Brinskele to Head Sales
• Sweney Named JCP's Top Merchant
• Hollander Relocating New York Showroom
• Avanti Takes on Licensed Styles from Defunct Blonder Home
• Rio Home Fashions, Iona Crawford Partner for Fashion Basic Bedding Collection
• Whyte Home Fashions Moves to Consumer Market Side via Alliance with Venus Home
• Faze 3 Expands EZLon Launches Patterned Bath Rugs
• Sleep Innovations Expands MAT Line
• Pem America Emphasizes Broader Range
• Revman Takes on Eddie Bauer Home
• Williams-Sonoma Looks for Further International Growth
• Neiman Links Customers to Associates with New App
• Study Finds That Younger Shoppers Value Retail Experience
• Macy's & Martha: The Sequel?
• Maples Rugs Turns to a Softer Side
• NYIGF to Present Home Furnishing Trends in New "Open House" Exhibit
• ShopNBC/Macy's Alliance off to Promising Start
• Is JCP Psyching the Competition?
• YoPros Mix it Up With Textiles Vets
• Window Makers Feel Post-Market Success

• Opinion Today
• Merchant in the Middle
• The E-Game

• People Today
• Shields Returns to Sferra
• Town and Country Living Adds Kristoff
• JCPenney Adds Exec for New Store Center Strategy
• Kennedy Named New President at Bardwil Linens
• Nourison Taps Tollison as Account Exec for Carolinas
• Kicking off New York Market Week
• HTT Hosts Market Kick-off Party
• Market Week Happenings