{"id":3093,"date":"2014-01-17T07:34:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T02:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2014\/01\/17\/75-jobs-to-go-at-furniture-firm\/"},"modified":"2014-01-17T07:34:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T02:04:57","slug":"75-jobs-to-go-at-furniture-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/75-jobs-to-go-at-furniture-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"75 jobs to go at furniture firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-five jobs are to be lost with the                         <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\nclosure of McDonagh&#8217;s furniture company in Portadown.<\/p>\n<p>The managing director Terry McDonagh has blamed the job losses on the rising cost of manufacturing and cheaper foreign imports.<\/p>\n<p>The business was set up 100 years ago by his grandfather and is expected to close within months.<\/p>\n<p>The MP for the area, David Simpson of the DUP, said he was saddened by the closure.<\/p>\n<p> He praised the company for its efforts to stay in business against competition from cheap imports.<\/p>\n<p>Sinn Fein councillor John O&#8217;Dowd said it was a blow for the workers, their families and the Portadown economy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Manufacturing is being stripped from the landscape of Portadown and indeed from the wider economy in the constituency of Upper Bann,&#8221; Mr O&#8217;Dowd said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-five jobs are to be lost with the<\/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-3093","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\/3093","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=3093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}