First Year’s a Charm for Retail Fabric Supplier Softline

LOS ANGELES – Brothers Jason and Rodney Carr could not stand being apart. But establishing careers in the home fabrics industry they both loved required it — one brother worked in Canada and one in the U.S. — until last year. Then, as the winds shifted in late 2001 and they sniffed the opportunity, they leaped stateside to launch a...