Thomasville Eliminates 150 More Jobs

Posted by MCC on May 24th, 2009 at 07:25am

Just weeks after opening a new store in Maryland, Thomasville furniture has cut 150 jobs from their Lenoir, North Carolina plant. Like many other retailers that have had to eliminate countless jobs, Thomasville cites a soft retail as the reason.

Furniture Brands International, the parent company has also announced that around 100 jobs would be cut at their Drexel Heritage plants in Mount Airy and Morgantown. Some of those 100 jobs will be eliminated from the Lane division located in Mississippi as well.

The loss of these jobs will add heavily to an already high unemployment rate of over 15 percent in Caldwell County. In a one year period from March of 2008 and March of this year, 7,000 manufacturing jobs were eliminated in the Greater Hickory Metro area.

Being a major furniture manufacturing state North Carolina has been on of the worst effected by the recession. Since the economy started declining, the state has lot 76,000 jobs according to the Employment Security Commission.

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