Kenya: Furnishing Fabrics Market Grows at 15% a Year
NAIROBI, Kenya — The economists predict that the next trade and business prospectus after Asia is hidden in Africa. In the furnishing fabrics segment, Africa which is largely dependent on imports, expensive high end furnishing fabrics… Read more.June 27, 2012
Lyons Named Designtex President
NEW YORK, New York — Susan Lyons has been named president of Designtex and is expected to start her new post in June. At presstime, neither Steelcase Inc., the owner of Designtex nor Designtex executives would comment on this development… Read more.June 27, 2012
Zinc Hits $10 Million, Opens Freestanding London Showroom; Top Kravet Brands Go Live in London; U&G Opens Lifestyle Centers
LONDON — “Zinc Textile already has created sales above $10,000,000 in 2011,” said Justin Marr, creative head of the Zinc brand, a considerable feat given that the brand only debuted in 2010. As a result, Zinc is the Romo owned… Read more.June 26, 2012
New Line Develops Software To Prescreen Fabric Choices
IVYLAND, Pennsylvania — New Line Fabrics, a fabric converter specializing in export markets only, has developed a proprietary Idesign® software package that dramatically reduces the cost of sampling by almost 50 percent by allowing… Read more.June 26, 2012
MoOD 2012 Again Stresses Textiles Innovation for Europe; Three Hall, Three Day Event to Incubate Start-Up Companies
BRUSSELS — MoOD is promoting the reindustrialization of Europe through innovative textiles, especially from start-up companies, in this year’s three day event September 11, 12, and 13. “We currently find ourselves in a transitional… Read more.June 26, 2012
Master’s Avantgard® Brand Takes U.S. Market Share; Second Generation Owner Erich Imbach Leads Charge
MONTREAL, Canada —Master Fabrics may be one of the last Canadian wholesalers to penetrate the USA market but in just over one year, it has increased its American business to 25 percent of total sales, according to Erich Imbach, the second… Read more.June 26, 2012
Finding Trudi
Dear F&FI: We are long standing customers of Desatex and very sad to find the news just now about the Company but we have an order for old Desa patterns we used which Trudi might be able to arrange through her venture Elite Deco. But… Read more.June 26, 2012
Letter From Proposte on its 20th Anniversary
The world has changed over the last 20 years. In May, 1993, the European producers exhibiting at Proposte were undisputed leaders in a market that had yet to ‘go global.’ There was no World Trade Organization (WTO); the Maastricht Treaty… Read more.June 26, 2012
