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Article: Growing sales grace table linens as retail market share shifts.(The facts: table linens)
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- Home Textiles Today
- Article date:
- January 30, 2004
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NEW YORK -- Sales of table linens last year grew 5.8 percent, to $603 million, driven largely by continued strength in licensing, design innovation and aggressive retail pricing, according to exclusive market research by Home Textiles Today.
"The Facts: Table Linens" offers a statistical analysis and trend forecast for the product segment, which includes tablecloths, place mats, runners, napkins and napkin rings. The annual survey measures movement in product styling and fabrication, as well as providing a statistical snapshot of sales and shifting market share by retail classes of trade. (See methodology, page 15.)
Shifts in market share were ...