{"id":1698,"date":"2013-08-28T09:28:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T03:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2013\/08\/28\/mfi-sale-talks-said-stalled\/"},"modified":"2013-08-28T09:28:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T03:58:19","slug":"mfi-sale-talks-said-stalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/mfi-sale-talks-said-stalled\/","title":{"rendered":"MFI sale talks said stalled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Talks between MFI Furniture Group and a private equity group seeking to buy its retail business have stalled over possible job losses, the Sunday  Express reported.<br \/>\n                        <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\n MFI is fighting the plan by Merchant Equity Partners (MEP)  to outsource the firm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s furniture production to a cheaper  operation in Poland.<\/p>\n<p> MFI Retail currently gets its flat-pack furniture from MFI Supply, which has about 1,000 workers in Britain.<\/p>\n<p> An MFI spokeswoman declined to comment, apart from saying  that the report was highly speculative.<\/p>\n<p> MFI confirmed this month that it was in talks to sell its loss-making MFI Retail unit for a nominal payment to MEP.<\/p>\n<p> MEP could not be reached for comment on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Talks between MFI Furniture Group and a private equity group seeking to buy its retail business have stalled over possible job losses, the Sunday Express reported.<\/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-1698","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\/1698","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=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}