Furniture Brands to close another facility
September 28th, 2007
Furniture Brands International Inc. for the second time in a week announced it is closing one of its manufacturing facilities, this time in Carysbrook, Va.
Phillip Miller, president of Virginia operations for Creative Interiors a divison of Furniture Brands, said the 200,000-square-foot plant, which employs 170 people, will close by Nov. 23 due to a decrease in business. On Sept. 20, another Furniture Brands unit announced it was closing its North Carolina facility.
The Carysbrook plant produces ready-to-assemble furniture that was sold to Wal-Mart, Target and other big box retailers, Miller said.
“It was demand-related,” Miller said of the decision. “Some of that demand has been consumed by offshore products, coming in primarily from Asia.”
Miller said production will be shifted to its 1 million-square-foot plant in Appomattox, Va., about 50 miles southeast of Carysbrook. It is hoped that some of the Carysbrook workers will be transferred to Appomattox, but Miller said that would depend on what the business level is like come the end of November.
The Appomattox facility employs 650 people.
St. Louis-based Furniture Brands International Inc. (NYSE: FBN) manufactures furniture under the Thomasville, Henredon, Drexel Heritage, Maitland-Smith, Broyhill and Lane brands.
Published September 26, 2007 by the St. Louis Business Journal
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