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Deborah Herman, Covington Make Landmark Partnership Deal

November 19, 2024

Deborah Herman with Pumpkin
Deborah Herman with Pumpkin

NEW YORK—Covington Fabric & Design (CFD) is supplying logistical support to Fabric Innovations.
FI has been in the hospitality fabric business for 27 years.
Covington was established in 1940 and is a leading fabric converter in the USA.
The support provided by Covington includes logistics, warehousing, in-house sample making, bolt cutting for sample rooms, same day shipping of brand inventory goods; small order shipments– all from one location, according to Deborah Herman, Founder of Fabric Innovations and a third-generation family member in the hospitality fabric business.
Previously, she built Fabric Innovations into a well-known hospitality fabric provider over 27 years, but she concluded to be effective going forward, she needed a strong partner in her corner. “Covington was one of my father’s favorite vendors and the natural synergy has quietly led to the sharing of best practices,” Herman says.
The partnership began to form in early 2024 when FI “seamlessly migrated the Florida operational processes to CFD,” Herman adds.
Herman first quietly announced the deal internally September 1 and went live with this unique partnership this past October. The deal took 18 months to put together after Herman decided she needed to become a one stop fabric shopping experience for her hospitality customer with a strong partner in Covington backing her up.
“We concluded that logistics, warehousing and in house sample making needed to be simple and in one location,” Herman says. “The pandemic allowed time and opportunities for Fabric Innovations to find solutions that would enable us to be more efficient for our customers and easier for them to receive the kind of service the changing world now demands,” she previously wrote in a customer/vendor memo.
Greg Tarver, President & CEO, says “Deborah is an industry icon in the hospitality segment that I witnessed first-hand.” He was referring to her participation at BDNY held earlier in November. Tarver was in attendance. “It was a great show with as many as 13,000 attendees versus 9,000 the year before.”
Tarver continued, “The synergy is incredible, Fabric Innovations is benefiting from Covington’s product development capabilities as well as our healthy inventory position on fabric constructions that are perfect for hospitality applications.”


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