{"id":1078,"date":"2013-06-30T10:05:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T04:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2013\/06\/30\/berklinebenchcraft-closing-mississippi-plant-by-late-august\/"},"modified":"2013-06-30T10:05:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T04:35:22","slug":"berklinebenchcraft-closing-mississippi-plant-by-late-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/berklinebenchcraft-closing-mississippi-plant-by-late-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Berkline\/BenchCraft closing Mississippi plant by late August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Furniture Today,<br \/>\nMORRISTOWN, Tenn. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Upholstery major Berkline\/BenchCraft said it will close its Baldwyn, Miss., factory in late August, putting up to 400 people out of work.<br \/>\n       <!--adsense--><br \/>\n        <!--more--><br \/>\nThe company said the 10-year-old plant is being closed in order to improve manufacturing efficiencies and hold down production costs.<\/p>\n<p> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s low-cost, highly competitive home furnishings environment, this gives us an opportunity for cost reductions that enable us to maintain our competitiveness,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said President and CEO Bill Wittenberg.<\/p>\n<p>Also contributing to the closing is the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s increased reliance on Asian imports, as well as the recent bankruptcies of several large retail customers, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Wittenberg said the Baldwyn facility had been running well below capacity in recent months and its volume can be absorbed by other Berkline\/BenchCraft plants in northern Mississippi and Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are able to keep our production at the same levels with fewer plants in service because of productivity gains in operations,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Baldwyn factory produces reclining chairs, loveseats and sofas. The company said an undetermined number of workers will be offered jobs at other Berkline\/BenchCraft facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Furniture Today, MORRISTOWN, Tenn. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Upholstery major Berkline\/BenchCraft said it will close its Baldwyn, Miss., factory in late August, putting up to 400 people out of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}