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Welcome to HTT Extra, the daily e-newsletter for home textiles industry professionals. Brought to you by the staff of Home Textiles Today, HTT Extra provides you with a daily update of the latest news from the world of home textiles manufacturing and retailing.

In Today's Issue:
1. Wal-Mart has hopes for home in 1Q; exceeds 4Q expectations
2. Frankel remembered
3. Strongbow files to overhaul Duckwall-Alco board
 
 
1. Wal-Mart has hopes for home in 1Q; exceeds 4Q expectations
Bentonville, Ark. – Wal-Mart Stores U.S. hinted of good things soon to come for the home area as the company “works hard on improvements,” said the division’s president and ceo Eduardo Castro-Wright during the retailer’s fourth-quarter and year-end earnings call this morning.  more  
2. Frankel remembered
New York – Long a legend in the home textiles industry, Arlee Home Fashions founder Bud Frankel died on Feb. 15 from complications resulting from a stroke. He was 79 years old.  more  
 
3. Strongbow files to overhaul Duckwall-Alco board
New York – Strongbow Capital Ltd., holder of some 14.3% of regional discounter Duckwall-Alco’s shares, filed notice with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it will seek to nominate a slate of directors to the company’s board during the retailer’s shareholder meeting next month.  more  

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Yours,

The HTT Editorial Staff

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