De Leo, KETS expanding fabric line
By Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, June 27, 2005
Fairfield, N.J. — De Leo Textiles and its Turkish mill partner KETS are expanding their upholstery fabric line at Summer Showtime here July 10–13.
To make their presentations more efficient, the companies will share a 1,000-square-foot booth, space 1206 at Suites at Market Square.
DeLeo CEO Craig DeLeo said the company had a successful April market with more than 50 placements with 17 upholstery manufacturers, including Drexel Heritage, C.R. Laine, McCreary Modern and Sklar Peppler.
"We are establishing a niche for ourselves in a competitive fabric marketplace," he said.
Established in 1962, DeLeo Textiles is a distributor of furniture, multi-use and automotive textiles. It offers more than 300 traditional, transitional and contemporary SKUs.
KETS (Kadifeteks) is a 35-year-old company with a 63,000-square-foot plant in Istanbul with capacity to produce 15 million meters annually.
