{"id":588,"date":"2013-05-02T08:16:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T02:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/?p=588"},"modified":"2013-05-02T08:16:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T02:46:55","slug":"authority-pegs-high-point-attendance-at-95514-with-47628-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/authority-pegs-high-point-attendance-at-95514-with-47628-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Authority pegs High Point attendance at 95,514, with 47,628 buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Thomas &#8212; Furniture Today,<\/p>\n<p>Numbers surprise IHFMA board<br \/>\nHIGH POINT \u00e2\u20ac\u201d According to early registration figures from the International Home Furnishings Market Authority, April market attendance was 95,514 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d about 20,000 more than any previous estimate.<\/p>\n<p>       <!--adsense--><\/p>\n<p>The figure, which surprised IHFMA board members and market officials at their post-market meeting today, includes 47,628 buyers. The rest were exhibitors, sales representatives, maintenance and showroom staff and others associated with the event.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The numbers demonstrate that this market is very strong,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said new IHFRA President Brian Casey. He said officials \u00e2\u20ac\u0153really didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what to expect\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in total attendance, because this market was the first one with a central registration system in place.<\/p>\n<p>Casey said he believes total attendance could top 100,000, because reps and others in some outlying showrooms didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bother to register if they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t plan to come to the central downtown buildings.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that of 236 key buying organizations identified by market officials, 234 sent people to High Point.<\/p>\n<p>At recent High Point markets, officials had estimated attendance at 70,000 to 75,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Thomas &#8212; Furniture Today, Numbers surprise IHFMA board HIGH POINT \u00e2\u20ac\u201d According to early registration figures from the International Home Furnishings Market Authority, April market attendance was 95,514 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d about 20,000 more than any previous estimate. The figure, which surprised IHFMA board members and market officials at their post-market meeting today, includes 47,628 buyers. [&hellip;]<\/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-588","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\/588","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=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}