Furniture Plant Closing In High Point NC

Posted by MCC on June 23rd, 2008 at 09:09pm

Furniture Brands International Inc. has announced that it will be closing down its Drexel Heritage Furniture Industries Inc facility in High Point, North Carolina by the end off 2008. The closing will put 300 workers out of a job in one of the biggest layoffs the city has seen.

Drexel Heritage Furniture Industries Inc.has been in operation since August of 1977.

Although officials from Furniture Brands International Inc. did not indicate directly that the jobs would be shifted to offshore production they did apply with the U.S. Department of Labors Trade Adjustment Assistance Act for benefits for the workers who will be laid off.

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