Furniture is expected to pick up the fourth quarter of this year or first quarter of next year

In May, the U.S. furniture factory orders and shipments fell 17 percent, which is since last September has been a smaller decline. The Director of Accounting KenSmith consulting firm, said: "Although the current situation is not optimistic, but the narrow decline has given us a ray of consolation."

According to statistics, first quarter of this year's orders and shipments declined by 21% year-on-year; and the first quarter of 2008 compared with year-on-year decline in the percentage of 26%, the drop down. Smith said that in March of this year compared with shipments in February rose by 10 percentage points.

Smith stressed that now many suppliers of furniture inventory is not sufficient, I believe that retailers buy products in the future when the opportunity to enjoy a corresponding reduction in the discount, at least it is very difficult to encounter, such as half of the amount or discount for each purchase of a discounted price so low. Smith added: "We also heard a lot of arguments that the economy will rebound in the beginning of the third quarter of this year, at least to begin to bottom out. But as far as I know, the furniture industry is a typical industry's sluggish economy, so the warmer the furniture industry may be in the fourth quarter of this year or first quarter of next year. "