HIGH POINT, n.C. — This year may be a turning point for the furniture industry, which has taken an especially hard hit during the recession as credit was limited and people put big-ticket purchases on hold to pay monthly bills.
That's the growing sentiment for about 75,000 industry insiders who this week crowded into High Point for the world's largest furniture trade show in a city built by furnishings. The past couple of months have seen a collection of government and private data pointing to what seems to be a brightening U.S. economy. Inflation is low. Homebuilder confidence is at its highest level in six years, and retail shoppers are spending more.
Most important for furniture sales, more Americans are buying and moving into homes that they'll look to furnish, pushing up sales and prices after a six-year slide.
Buyers stocking furniture stores for the coming months seemed more willing to place orders at the High Point Furniture Market, which ended Thursday, even if it's too soon to celebrate the recovery of the two-thirds of economic activity that depends on consumers.
Nearly 90 percent of those attending the market were U.S.-based.
"The last four or five years, it was pretty doom and gloom. I'm seeing more optimistic people this time around," said Braden Richter, formerly a furniture-manufacturing executive and now chief executive of e-commerce retailer LuxeYard Inc. "I'm seeing a lot of fresh product. When times get tough, people keep reshowing the same thing because it costs money to do R&D. It looks like the factories have definitely spent money on R&D, so they must feel good about it too."
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