{"id":868,"date":"2013-06-09T09:47:33","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T04:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2013\/06\/09\/hooker-furniture-to-close-roanoke-plant\/"},"modified":"2013-06-09T09:47:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T04:17:33","slug":"hooker-furniture-to-close-roanoke-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/hooker-furniture-to-close-roanoke-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooker Furniture to close Roanoke plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MARTINSVILLE, Va. Hooker Furniture Corporation says it plans to close its Roanoke plant by August because of declining demand for its wood furniture made in the U-S.<br \/>\n       <!--adsense--><br \/>\nThe Roanoke plant employs 275 workers &#8212; about 20 percent of the company&#8217;s total work force.<br \/>\n  <!--more--><br \/>\nThe company said it will centralize domestic production at its largest plant and warehouse near the company&#8217;s Martinsville headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Hooker said it will offer severance packages to laid-off employees. No workers are expected to be transferred to other company operations.<\/p>\n<p>The company says that industrywide, furniture demand has been shifting toward cheaper imports. Orders and shipment rates for the company&#8217;s domestically produced wood furniture have been on the decline, while sales of its imported wood and metal furniture is on the rise.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARTINSVILLE, Va. Hooker Furniture Corporation says it plans to close its Roanoke plant by August because of declining demand for its wood furniture made in the U-S. The Roanoke plant employs 275 workers &#8212; about 20 percent of the company&#8217;s total work force.<\/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-868","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\/868","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=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}