{"id":2560,"date":"2013-11-08T08:39:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T03:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2013\/11\/08\/bdo-us-furniture-factory-orders-down-7-in-august\/"},"modified":"2013-11-08T08:39:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T03:09:18","slug":"bdo-us-furniture-factory-orders-down-7-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/bdo-us-furniture-factory-orders-down-7-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"BDO: U.S. furniture factory orders down 7% in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Furniture Today,<br \/>\nHIGH POINT \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Softer business in August left U.S. furniture factory orders and shipments for the first eight                         <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\nmonths of this year running 1% behind last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pace, according to BDO Seidman.<\/p>\n<p>The accounting and consulting firm said that compared with the same month in 2012, August orders were down 7% and shipments were off by 5%.<\/p>\n<p> About 70% of the participants in BDO\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s factory survey reported lower orders in August, and 64% had lower orders for the year to date.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The results for August in our survey were pretty much reflective of what we have heard on the street,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ken Smith, national director of BDO\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Furniture Industry Services, said in the firm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s monthly Furniture Insights newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In addition, what we are continuing to hear is that business is sluggish. Some sectors seem to be doing OK but most feel that business at retail overall is not that strong,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Furniture Today, HIGH POINT \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Softer business in August left U.S. furniture factory orders and shipments for the first eight<\/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-2560","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\/2560","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=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}