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Furniture prices heading upward – Industry is blaming increases in labor and shipping costs

Roger — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:09:26 +0000

Furniture companies are raising prices despite fears that higher costs could kill off a rebound just as recession-shocked shoppers appear willing to spend.

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China labor new shortage: fewer workers with higher saleries is the new norm

Roger — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:04:20 +0000

After returning from the Chinese new year, its quickly becoming apparent that this year, the hottest topics being discussed by business owners in furniture manufacturing circles are: How many of your workers returned back to work after this year’s holiday? How much later did they return from their hometowns? How much of an increase are paying them this [...]

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China furniture industry suffers along with U.S. market

Roger — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:08:45 +0000

As a regular reader of Furniture Today, and having also attended the same Shanghai show I felt compelled to comment on a recent post on Tom Russell’s Sourcing Strategies blog (See Chinaâ€™s furniture industry appears strong despite recent challenges) about the recent September Shanghai home furnishings trade show. Apparently I was not the only one [...]

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China furniture industry outlook and predictions for 2009

Roger — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:03:54 +0000

China Furniture Manufacturing: What next? The Chinese furniture industry seems to be in trouble, and this graph shown here from Google trends, seems to best illustrate that point by visualizing the number of searches for the terms “Chinese” and “Furniture” over a five year period. A wave of consolidation and shutdowns. Here is a dead-on quote from [...]

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Red Egg’g Oriental furniture is made in the USA

Roger — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 07:05:44 +0000

Made in China USA Well this has got to be a bad sign. I am up late waiting for a download to finish, when I stumble across this article quoting Carol Gregg who owns Red Egg, a wholesale furniture company that reproduces antique pieces. Note the fine print underneath Double Happiness! Chinese styles + Made in the USA = Double Happiness! Gregg moved [...]

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China’s furniture exporters face tough times amid global financial crisis

Roger — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:04:50 +0000

China furniture export woes (if video does not load click here for original video from Reuters) China’s furniture exporters face tough times amid global financial crisis is a post from: The ACF China Co - Millstone Trading

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Top ten reasons why your China side supplier may be clueless about the economy.

Roger — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:26:31 +0000

Supplier rings me today – complainingÂ I have not picked up my goods / nor paid for, goods we previously ordered back in the first quarter (nor placed any new orders recently). Now, normally I would have given him an earful – after all, these were goods which were not only a) delivered late, but [...]

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The latest from Furniture in China 2008 expo

Roger — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:38:09 +0000

Review Part 1 of (2) Furniture in China Fall 2008 Trade show & Furniture Manufacturing & Supply China 2008 (Its not the High Point Market, its not the lasvegasmarket either, but it ain’t bad!) Unlike a few years back when it seemed only Halo had “vintage leather look,” this time around more then one supplier is now producing Italian [...]

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More gloomy news for the furniture industry in China

Roger — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:51:55 +0000

China’s Factory Blues http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,543929,00.html Hsu’s new factory, it turns out, is running at just 60 percent of capacity, and he predicts that half of China’s lighting factories — almost all based in Guangdong — will have to close their doors this year. When more than a hundred South Korean-owned factories closed over the Chinese New Year in the [...]

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Housing crisis hits furniture industry hard

Roger — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:20:37 +0000

Housing crisis hits furniture industry hard There is a pretty decent, if not depressing article on The Press-Enterprise that sums up whats going on in the furniture industry in the US at the moment. “For eight years, business was OK,” said Kim, whose store is near Riverside’s busy Galleria at Tyler mall retail center. “Last year [...]

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