{"id":3937,"date":"2014-05-04T08:13:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T02:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2014\/05\/04\/april-sales-decreases-171-for-haverty-furniture\/"},"modified":"2014-05-04T08:13:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T02:43:50","slug":"april-sales-decreases-171-for-haverty-furniture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/april-sales-decreases-171-for-haverty-furniture\/","title":{"rendered":"April Sales Decreases 17.1% For Haverty Furniture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HAVERTY FURNITURE COMPANIES, INC. reported sales for the month ended April 30, 2014.<br \/>\n                        <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\nHavertys&#8217; April sales decreased 17.1% to $53.6 million, compared with $64.7 million in April 2013. On a comparable-store basis, April sales decreased 18.1%. Comparable-store sales do not include stores or locations opened, closed or otherwise non-comparable during the last 12 months. Sales for the first four months of 2014 decreased 10.6% to $244.7 million compared with $273.8 million in 2013. On a comparable-store basis, sales decreased 12.2% for the first four months.<\/p>\n<p>Clarence H. Smith, president and chief executive officer, said, &#8220;We are experiencing a very difficult sales environment in residential home furnishings. April is typically our weakest month of the year and that has been exacerbated by the continued sluggish housing market to produce a poor monthly performance. There was one less Saturday in April this year which had a modestly negative impact on our monthly results since it is our busiest day of the week. The April decline in our total written sales was approximately 14%, a smaller decrease from last year than the delivered sales, but still very disappointing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Havertys is a full-service home furnishings retailer with 121 showrooms in 17 states in the Southern and Midwestern regions providing its customers with a wide selection of quality merchandise in middle- to upper-middle price ranges. Additional information is available on the Comp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAVERTY FURNITURE COMPANIES, INC. reported sales for the month ended April 30, 2014.<\/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-3937","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\/3937","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=3937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}