{"id":3414,"date":"2014-03-02T08:07:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T02:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2014\/03\/02\/klaussner-to-close-mississippi-plant\/"},"modified":"2014-03-02T08:07:26","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T02:37:26","slug":"klaussner-to-close-mississippi-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/klaussner-to-close-mississippi-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Klaussner to close Mississippi plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Furniture Today,<br \/>\nWill shift production to North Carolina<br \/>\nASHEBORO, N.C. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Klaussner Furniture Inds. said<br \/>\n                        <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\nTuesday it will close its Bruce, Miss. upholstery plant and consolidate operations to its North Carolina facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The closing, affecting 117 employees, is scheduled for completion by April 27.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The entire furniture industry continues to be negatively impacted by the weak retail market,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the company said in a news release. It said that Klaussner has made changes, including consolidating plants, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to remain competitive and to provide its employees with more consistent work.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nKlaussner began operations in Bruce in June 1998 in a leased facility, then built and moved into its present factory there in early 2000.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153While this is a difficult decision, it should in no way be seen as a reflection on the employees at the Mississippi facility,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said J.B. Davis, president and CEO. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The employees at Bruce have worked hard and have been an important part of the overall success of KFI.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The company said it will work with state and local agencies to help employees find new jobs or training opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Furniture Today, Will shift production to North Carolina ASHEBORO, N.C. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Klaussner Furniture Inds. said<\/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-3414","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\/3414","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=3414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}