{"id":4836,"date":"2014-09-07T07:41:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T02:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2014\/09\/07\/haverty-furnitures-sales-fall-to-707m\/"},"modified":"2014-09-07T07:41:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T02:11:12","slug":"haverty-furnitures-sales-fall-to-707m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/haverty-furnitures-sales-fall-to-707m\/","title":{"rendered":"Haverty Furniture&#039;s sales fall to $70.7M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haverty Furniture Cos.&#8217; sales dipped 8.3 percent in August, as the company continued to weather the housing slowdown.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlanta-based furniture retailer (NYSE: HVT &#8211; News) reported its August sales dropped to $70.7 million, compared with $77.1 million in August 2013. On a comparable-store basis, August sales fell 10.1 percent. Comparable-store sales do not include stores or locations opened, closed or otherwise non-comparable during the last 12 months.<br \/>\n                        <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\n&#8220;August comparable store sales were off by 10.1 percent versus strong results for the same month last year when comps had increased 10.3 percent,&#8221; said Clarence H. Smith, president and CEO. &#8220;Our total written business in August decreased 4.3 percent compared to last year. Early September sales are trending better with total written business for the Labor Day weekend off 3 percent compared to last year&#8217;s mid-teen percentage increase. In fact, written business this Labor Day set an all-time record for any single day at Havertys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sales through August decreased 9.4 percent to $516.7 million, compared with $570.6 million in the same period of 2013. On a comparable-store basis, sales decreased 11 percent through August.<\/p>\n<p>Published September 6, 2014 by the Atlanta Business Chronicle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haverty Furniture Cos.&#8217; sales dipped 8.3 percent in August, as the company continued to weather the housing slowdown. The Atlanta-based furniture retailer (NYSE: HVT &#8211; News) reported its August sales dropped to $70.7 million, compared with $77.1 million in August 2013. On a comparable-store basis, August sales fell 10.1 percent. Comparable-store sales do not include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-indonesia-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836","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=4836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}