{"id":1496,"date":"2013-08-04T11:28:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T05:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2013\/08\/04\/furniture-orders-mixed-in-may\/"},"modified":"2013-08-04T11:28:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T05:58:47","slug":"furniture-orders-mixed-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/furniture-orders-mixed-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Furniture orders mixed in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furniture orders mixed in May<br \/>\nA survey of residential furniture manufacturers found that new orders failed to rebound as much as expected in May after a late<br \/>\n                        <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\n start to the spring International Home Furnishings Market dampened results in April.<\/p>\n<p> However, the survey from High Point accounting and consulting firm BDO Seidman said that May new orders, which were flat from a year ago, were up 18 percent over April, and year-to-date figures are slightly ahead of 2012.<\/p>\n<p> Shipments of completed orders were up 1 percent over last May and 6 percent from April. Backlogs of orders were down slightly from last year, and even from April.<\/p>\n<p> The number of factory employees fell 5 percent from May 2012 to this year, though the number of workers was about even with April. Payrolls were down 8 percent from a year ago and 2 percent from the previous month. Employment declines have been persistent in recent years, with the survey reporting that the May 2012 figures had been about 6 percent lower than in 2004.<\/p>\n<p> Overall, the survey analysis concluded that &#8220;business at retail is not that good at most furniture stores,&#8221; possibly because disposable incomes are failing to keep pace with rising interest rates and energy prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furniture orders mixed in May A survey of residential furniture manufacturers found that new orders failed to rebound as much as expected in May after a late<\/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-1496","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\/1496","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=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}