{"id":3141,"date":"2014-01-29T09:02:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T03:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2014\/01\/29\/alan-white-co-to-lay-off-300-workers-in-shannon\/"},"modified":"2014-01-29T09:02:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T03:32:14","slug":"alan-white-co-to-lay-off-300-workers-in-shannon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/alan-white-co-to-lay-off-300-workers-in-shannon\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan White Co. to lay off 300 workers in Shannon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SHANNON \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Upholstered furniture maker Alan White                         <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\nCo. is laying off more than 300 workers at its facility in Shannon.<\/p>\n<p>It is the fourth such announcement in six months for the $4 billion furniture industry in Mississippi, which employs some 21,000 workers.<\/p>\n<p>Privately held Alan White, which was founded in 1953 and is Shannon&#8217;s largest employer, also has operations in Stamps, Ark., and Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released Wednesday, the company cited &#8220;chronic and overwhelming industry pressures.&#8221; Specifically, the company pointed to intense price competition, increased material costs related to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and a shrinking customer base.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the Shannon plant began closing on Jan. 12 &#8220;and will liquidate assets in a controlled manner to meet as many obligations as possible.&#8221; It is expected to shutdown the plant at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>In a related development, Shannon-based Industrial Timber, a supplier for Alan White, is also closing, putting another 38 people out of work.<\/p>\n<p>Denise Bentele, a spokeswoman for Alan White, said the company will help workers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The company is going to do anything and everything it can to help the employees find jobs,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s even calling other employers to help them find jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHANNON \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Upholstered furniture maker Alan White<\/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-3141","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\/3141","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=3141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}