{"id":3697,"date":"2014-04-09T08:38:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T03:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2014\/04\/09\/furniture-factory-survey-finds-jan-orders-down-again-by-7-from-jan-%e2%80%9906\/"},"modified":"2014-04-09T08:38:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T03:08:47","slug":"furniture-factory-survey-finds-jan-orders-down-again-by-7-from-jan-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/furniture-factory-survey-finds-jan-orders-down-again-by-7-from-jan-06\/","title":{"rendered":"Furniture factory survey finds Jan. orders down again, by 7% from Jan. \u00e2\u20ac\u212206"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furniture Today,<br \/>\nHIGH POINT \u00e2\u20ac\u201d U.S. residential furniture factory orders in January were down 7% from the same month a year                         <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\nearlier, continuing a string of declines, according to accounting and consulting firm Smith Leonard here.<\/p>\n<p>Orders year-over-year were down 6% in December and 8% in November, according to the firm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s factory survey. Factory shipments also were down 7% in January year-over-year, Smith Leonard said.<\/p>\n<p> Ken Smith, the firm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s managing partner, said in his monthly Furniture Insights newsletter that the slow business in January was in line with expectations.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In our talks at the High Point Market, there appeared to be some bright spots occurring in March, but again no real traction yet,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Smith said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153As has been the case over the past couple of years, some companies continue to have some reasonable growth, but many others are continuing to struggle.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Furniture factory orders, shipments in January<\/p>\n<p>In billions of dollars<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Change from<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Dec.\u00e2\u20ac\u212206 Jan. \u00e2\u20ac\u212206<br \/>\nOrders\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 $2.023\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 8%\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 -7%<br \/>\nShipments\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a01.869\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0-9%\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0-7%<br \/>\nOrder<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0 backlog\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 1.683\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 7%\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 -7%<\/p>\n<p>Source: Smith Leonard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furniture Today, HIGH POINT \u00e2\u20ac\u201d U.S. residential furniture factory orders in January were down 7% from the same month a year<\/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-3697","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\/3697","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=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}