Manufacturers say China too pricey

by Ted Carter Published: April 1,2012
Tags: China, furniture manufacturing, labor, labor costs, labor unions, outsourcing
Simple arithmetic drove North Carolinian Bruce Cochrane to start making furniture in the Tar Heel State instead of China. The fifth-generation furniture maker’s calculations convinced him he could not afford to make furniture in China, where he had spent the last 10 years as a furniture manufacturing consultant and had witnessed rising costs and declining [...] [...]
