{"id":1786,"date":"2013-09-04T11:31:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T06:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2013\/09\/04\/quaker-to-lay-off-225\/"},"modified":"2013-09-04T11:31:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T06:01:35","slug":"quaker-to-lay-off-225","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/quaker-to-lay-off-225\/","title":{"rendered":"Quaker to lay off 225"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Furniture Today,<br \/>\nFALL RIVER, Mass. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Quaker Fabric has laid off another 225 employees in administration and manufacturing, reducing its work force to just over 1,000.<br \/>\n      <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\nLarry Liebenow, president and CEO of the upholstery fabric supplier, placed the blame on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fierce competition from imported Chinese fabrics, rising energy prices and weakness in the retail furniture sector,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which he said has reduced order rates and production requirements.<\/p>\n<p>While Quaker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s employment has declined from a peak of 2,800 in 2002, Liebenow said the company remains committed to its U.S. manufacturing base.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153To that end, we are continuing to cut costs and to execute the restructuring plan we put in place last year \u00e2\u20ac\u201d selling off the buildings and equipment we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to support our operations; aggressively working to build sales in those domestic markets least sensitive to imported products; achieving profitable volume in the decorative, outdoor and contract fabric markets; and developing strategically important commercial relationships with a small number of offshore fabric mills.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Furniture Today, FALL RIVER, Mass. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Quaker Fabric has laid off another 225 employees in administration and manufacturing, reducing its work force to just over 1,000.<\/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-1786","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\/1786","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=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}