Commercial Furniture Group Continues Layoffs

August 15, 2006  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Furniture Retailing on August 2006 The Commercial Furniture Group said via a release that they plan to lay off 35 workers by fall 2006. The workers will not receive any severance packages.

The Commercial Furniture Group laid off 300 workers in 2005.

Union representatives blame the most recent layoffs on slow sales and competition overseas.

The company, which makes furniture for hotels, once employed 700 people.