More gloomy news for the furniture industry in China
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...
View ArticleThe latest from Furniture in China 2008 expo
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!)...
View ArticleTop ten reasons why your China side supplier may be clueless about the economy.
Supplier rings me today – complaining 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...
View ArticleChina’s furniture exporters face tough times amid global financial crisis
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...
View ArticleRed Egg’g Oriental furniture is made in the USA
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...
View ArticleChina furniture industry outlook and predictions for 2009
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...
View ArticleChina furniture industry suffers along with U.S. market
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 China’s furniture...
View ArticleWill there be a furniture downturn in this ‘cautious environment?’
Outlook expects furniture downturn in ‘cautious environment’ Posted by MARK SANCHEZ | Business Review Western Michigan March 05, 2008 16:25PM Amid a new outlook that sees a two-year downturn for the...
View ArticleHousing crisis hits furniture industry hard
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....
View ArticleSlower boats to China as ship owners save fuel
Slower boats to China as ship owners save fuel By Erik Kirschbaum Sun Jan 20, 6:29 PM ET Oil at more than $90 a barrel is concentrating minds in the shipping industry. Higher fuel costs and mounting...
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