Jennifer Marks

New York

Editor-in-Chief at Home Textiles Today

Editor-in-Chief for Home Textiles Today

Articles

Burlington home sales break $2 billion barrier

4 weeks ago | hometextilestoday.com | Jennifer Marks

Burlington, N.J. – Over the past five years, Burlington Stores Inc. has added more than $1.2 billion in total home category sales. The off-price retailer‘s home sales climbed 9.2% in the fiscal year ended Feb. 1 on top of 6.6% growth the previous year, according to the company’s 10K annual report filed with the SEC. Home sales rang in at more than $2.1 billion, marking a new milestone. Burlington first recorded more than $1 billion in home sales at the end of 2020.
LoveShackFancy expands beyond the kids’ room at Pottery Barn

1 month ago | hometextilestoday.com | Jennifer Marks

San Francisco – Lifestyle and fashion brand LoveShackFancy is getting bigger play across the Pottery Barn family of brands. The expansion includes new collections that build on customer reaction to the existing partnership with Pottery Barn Kids and Pottery Barn Teen and includes a debut collaboration with Pottery Barn. For the grown-ups, the LoveShackFancy assortment includes tabletop, bedding, bath textiles, decor, wall and window coverings, flooring, and seating.
Family Dollar sold to investment firms with activist history

1 month ago | hometextilestoday.com | Jennifer Marks

Chesapeake, Va. – Dollar Tree Inc. plans to sell the Family Dollar business to a pair of firms that have been active in the “go-private” push at retail. Dollar Tree today announced that it has reached an agreement under which Brigade Capital Management and Macellum Capital Management will partner to acquire the Family Dollar business segment.
Beyond chief updates on retail businesses, explains token strategy

1 month ago | hfndigital.com | Jennifer Marks

Murray, Utah - Why is Beyond Inc. monetizing some of its intellectual property? And how is Bed Bath & Beyond coming along? Marcus Lemonis addressed those topics in a recent live chat on X Spaces. The session - " Tzero, Overstock, buybuyBABY..." - followed announcements about tokenizing its Overstock and buybuy Baby IP. The audio-only presentation ran for roughly 20 minutes, ending after Lemonis' line cut out.
Macy's Inc. home segment sales tumble by double-digits

1 month ago | hfndigital.com | Jennifer Marks

New York - The home segment continues to contribute less and less to Macy's Inc. 's overall annual sales tally and last year fell to 15.2% of total merchandise revenue. Total sales in the Home/Other category rang in at $3.38 billion for the fiscal year ended Feb. 1, down 10.9% from sales in the previous fiscal year. "Other" in the category primarily includes restaurant sales, allowance for merchandise returns adjustments and breakage income from unredeemed gift cards.
Beyond chief updates on retail businesses, explains token strategy

1 month ago | hometextilestoday.com | Jennifer Marks

Murray, Utah – Why is Beyond Inc. monetizing some of its intellectual property? And how is Bed Bath & Beyond coming along? Marcus Lemonis addressed those topics yesterday evening in a live chat on X Spaces. The session – “Tzero, Overstock, buybuyBABY…” – followed yesterday morning’s announcements about tokenizing its Overstock and buybuy Baby IP. The audio-only presentation ran for roughly 20 minutes, ending after Lemonis’ line cut out.
5 takeaways from New York market week

1 month ago | hometextilestoday.com | Jennifer Marks

New York Home Fashions Market mostly wrapped up at the end of last week, although some Costco suppliers are expecting a visit from the club’s team next week. Here’s what was going on up and down 5th Avenue. TrafficDespite the uncertainty around tariffs – or perhaps because of it – many suppliers at New York Home Fashions Market last week said they had a healthy roster of appointments on the books. A lot of meetings were crammed into Tuesday and Wednesday.
Yunus expands affordability for fashion sheets

1 month ago | hometextilestoday.com | Jennifer Marks

New York – Yunus is building on the reaction to last season’s sateen jacquard and dobby sheet stripe collections to produce better qualities for every pricing tier. Guided by VP Brian Racioppi, the company is introducing faux embroidered sheets, scalloped hem sheets and ruffle hem sheets along with advanced embroidery techniques. The goal is to elevate core standards and lead in fashion and innovation.
Macy’s Inc. home segment sales tumble by double-digits

1 month ago | hometextilestoday.com | Jennifer Marks

New York – The home segment continues to contribute less and less to Macy’s Inc.‘s overall annual sales tally and last year fell to 15.2% of total merchandise revenue. Total sales in the Home/Other category rang in at $3.38 billion for the fiscal year ended Feb. 1, down 10.9% from sales in the previous fiscal year. “Other” in the category primarily includes restaurant sales, allowance for merchandise returns adjustments and breakage income from unredeemed gift cards.
Beyond Inc. ready to relaunch buybuy Baby business

1 month ago | hometextilestoday.com | Jennifer Marks

Murray, Utah – The buybuy Baby retail brand will relaunch as an e-comm business right before Mother’s Day, kicking off with a “Baby Days” sales event. The May 8 rebirth will include daily giveaways. In addition, the Beyond Inc. subsidiary will launch a crowdfunding offering of a tokenized digital security linked to certain buybuy Baby intellectual property on the company’s tZero brokerage platform.