Designers Continue to Play Musical Chairs With American Jobbers
NEW YORK—Sumitra Mattai has been named Senior Design Director for Scalamandre Design Studio.She will be in charge of Scalamandre product development. She replaces Susan North who left Scalamandre to join Jim Thompson, The Thai Silk Company… Read more.March 15, 2018
Osborne & Little Celebrates 50th Anniversary at Paris Deco Off
PARIS—Osborne & Little belongs to “the high end editeur’s club but we manage to offer cheaper prices than our competitors, say for instance Pierre Frey, because we source some of our fabrics in China, while maintaining suppliers in… Read more.March 15, 2018
MoOD Sold to Easyfairs
BRUSSELS—Easyfairs, a Brussels based trade show organizer has purchased MoOD, the annual decorative fabrics, window covering, upholstery and wall covering exhibition from Textirama. The current management headed by Patrick Geysels will… Read more.March 15, 2018
China Took 20 Years to Become Manufacturing Force But Now Loses Ground to USA
SHANGHAI/USA—The wheels of the Chinese market have turned so much in the last 20 years that China has given some of the ground won in textiles back to the United States, according to David Li, a Chinese born entrepreneur who has been an American… Read more.March 15, 2018
Nya Nordiska Voluntarily Reorganizes Business
DANNENBERG, FDR—Nya Nordiska, a medium sized German editeur, filed for protection under the Germany bankruptcy laws February 2 according to a letter sent to its suppliers by Remo Rentgen, CEO. The move to reorganize was made to “adapt… Read more.March 15, 2018
Sahco Hesslein Files Voluntary Bankruptcy
NUREMBERG, FDR—Sahco Hesslein, the small German editeur based here has filed for insolvency as of February 8, just two weeks after another German editeur, Nya Nordiska found itself in similar financial straits. “It’s not Germany but… Read more.March 15, 2018
“Wowed” By An Unexpected Icelandic Adventure
Everybody is familiar with the expression, “Be careful what you wish for!” In my case, that is exactly what had happened on my trip home from Heimtex. When I was booking my flight to Germany way back in October, I was put off by the… Read more.March 15, 2018
Richard Smith Says Thieves Stole Artwork From Three Companies at Heimtextil But Messe Frankfurt Recommends Hiring Security
FRANKFURT—Theft of intellectual property reared its ugly head at this past Heimtextil January 9-12 in Hall 4.2. Italian mill Vincenzo Molteni, Richard Smith Textile Services (UK) and The French company Theony, at stand F41 were the victims… Read more.March 15, 2018
