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Volume 24, Number 3
Summer 2014
The Global Home & Contract Furnishings Newspaper
North American Fabric Jobbers Generally Report Positive 2014 Sales Results With More to Come Second Half Kravet Says Many Positive Business Indicators Push Business in the Right Direction! Sipco News Network
North American home fabric wholesalers report an improved sales result for the first quarter of 2014 after a rocky 2013, with many executives enthusiastic about the balance of the year.
“Business is the best it has been since the recession of 2008,” says Cary Kravet, President and Principal of Kravet Corp., Bethpage, N.Y. He had just finished corporate sales meetings in Canada, Florida and New York
when F&FI caught up to him. “If you don’t move forward, you’re in trouble. We have no choice,” he says. Two areas earmarked for bigger growth is Canada, where Kravet just appointed Gary Searle
as its first Vice President of Sales in that market, based in Toronto. Searle moved to Toronto from his native South Africa earlier this year to run that business. He reports to Cary Kravet. Searle (continued on page 20)
EuropaTex International Builds Huge Trim, Fabric Business Kiriakou Family Plans Third Warehouse In Just Ten Years
Cary Kravet
Keystone Weaving Plans Sale to Burlington Technologies • Page 8 •
Grateful Dead poster from Jonathan Mark Rosenthal’s extensive collection. See his new contract wall covering collection on page 18
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ERSEY CITY, New Jersey — Quietly, EuropaTex International has become an important force in trimming in the USA with an annual sales growth of ten percent (continued on page 12)
Brunschwig & Fils Unveils Revamped Showroom in NYC • Page 20 •
Sunil Gupta (Partner, Swadeshi Silk)
The Golden Era of Indian Pure Silk Furnishing Fabrics Export Has All But Ended • Page 12 •
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