N.C. Furniture Maker to Sit with First Lady Tonight

January 23, 2012  by in UnCategorized   

By Aggregated Content in Case Goods on January 24, 2012 from http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?z5799767319&z=1250249029

A North Carolina furniture maker who attended a recent White House economic gathering will be a guest of the first lady at tonight's State of the Union address.

The White House says Bruce Cochrane's story of opening Lincolnton Furniture and bringing manufacturing jobs back to a region devastated by outsourcing highlights the challenges that Americans can overcome.

Cochrane comes from a family that has been manufacturing furniture in North Carolina since the 1800s. The family company was sold in 1997 and the new owners moved manufacturing to China.

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