Robert Allen promotes Keating

-- Home Textiles Today, 10/21/2004 12:12:00 PM

NEW YORK — Karen Keating has been promoted to the new position of operating vice president, fabric design, for The Robert Allen Group.&P>Keating, formerly design director — contract, wovens and prints — is now responsible for contract and residential upholstery fabrics. &P>"Since performance fabrics have become so important, both in residential fabrics as well as hospitality, we have put them together under Karen," explained Andy Pacuk, senior vice president.&P>Keating reports to Marion Murray, vice president, design.