{"id":1785,"date":"2013-09-04T11:14:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T05:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2013\/09\/04\/whittier-shifts-production-to-vietnam\/"},"modified":"2013-09-04T11:14:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T05:44:49","slug":"whittier-shifts-production-to-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/whittier-shifts-production-to-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Whittier shifts production to Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Russell<br \/>\nEUGENE, Ore. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Unfinished furniture manufacturer Whittier Wood Products has purchased a 150,000-square foot factory in Vietnam to produce its alder furniture line starting early next year.<br \/>\n      <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are excited and optimistic about the opportunities this new facility will give us to compete globally,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said company President Scott Whittier. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It will be our machinery, our equipment and personnel and the beautiful Pacific Northwest alder hardwood for which we are known. Owning and managing our own facility, we can insure quality and delivery.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p> Whittier makes unfinished wood furniture including chairs, tables, bookcases, barstools and entertainment centers.<\/p>\n<p>The Eugene Register-Guard newspaper reported that the company will lay off 100 workers at its Oregon plant. In a statement, Whittier said it will keep its headquarters and a warehouse in Eugene, stocking imported lines including Chaparral pine, JG International parawood and Garden Wood Furniture.<\/p>\n<p>Whittier told the newspaper the company is opening the Vietnam plant to help halt a drop in the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sales, which the paper said have fallen to $28 million this year from $50 million in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Russell EUGENE, Ore. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Unfinished furniture manufacturer Whittier Wood Products has purchased a 150,000-square foot factory in Vietnam to produce its alder furniture line starting early next year.<\/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-1785","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\/1785","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=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}