For the eighth consecutive year, Ashley Furniture Industries ... celebration of National Manufacturing Day. Throughout the month of October, Ashley welcomed over 770 K-12 students to tour its ...

His father then worked in a second factory, Thomasville Furniture ... s still that manufacturing base — just with higher salaries.” After Barack Obama narrowly won North Carolina in 2008 ...

From masthead additions at design publications to a flurry of C-suite appointments, read on for BOH’s monthly roundup of ...

“North Carolina lost over 300,000 manufacturing jobs, like taking candy from a baby, including 60% of its furniture manufacturing jobs.” Mr. Trump also took several jabs at Ms. Harris for ...

Advance Auto Parts will close about 500 stores by mid-2025 and cut some jobs under a restructuring effort, as demand for ...

And because of Bill Clinton, NAFTA and China, North Carolina went from the furniture capital of the world and a global textile manufacturing giant to casualties of globalism.” Mr. Clinton ...

Sampson Community College received the first Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) designation in North Carolina in 2020.

"North Carolina lost more than 300,000 manufacturing jobs, including 60% of their furniture manufacturing jobs." In total, North Carolina lost over 350,000 manufacturing jobs from 1993-2022 ...

production and distribution of its residential furniture has resumed at its original facilities, which span about 1 million square feet at multiple sites in northwestern North Carolina.

Back then, only about 10% of furniture sold in the United States was imported. And North Carolina was the nation’s largest producer, with manufacturing centered around High Point, a city that ...

The 2013 Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh, which killed over 1,000 workers, brought these issues to global attention, yet ...