Furniture Makers to Shutter Shops

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Furniture Makers to Shutter Shops
Operations Tabled: Sandberg Furniture

Two furniture manufacturers in Los Angeles are shutting their factory doors, according to notices issued by the companies last month to a state agency.

Sandberg Furniture Manufacturing Co., a Vernon-based furniture maker that’s been in operation since 1918, is closing its factory doors and ceasing all domestic production, the company said in a WARN notice filed with the California Employment Development Department.

The closure of the factory on 5685 Alcoa Ave. will affect 105 employees beginning May 15, most of the company’s plant and office staff. Sandberg Furniture attributed the closure to “poor economic conditions” according to the filing.

It declined to comment to the Business Journal.

Stephen Sandberg, the e-commerce marketing manager, told trade publication Furniture Today that the company was being renamed Martin Svensson Home and would focus on its imported Martin Svensson Home line, The line consists of bedroom and entertainment furniture made outside the United States, though the company did not state its exact location in the report.

Another furniture maker in Gardena is permanently closing its manufacturing and assembly factory, but moving some operations to other facilities in L.A. Jonathan Louis International, makers of home and office furniture also filed a WARN notice last month indicating the site closure would terminate 100 employees beginning May 18. The site is located on 150 E. 157 St.

Ivan Uribe, spokesman for the company said the core reason for the closure was the lease.

“The lease actually expires at the end of the year but we’re making this move to give ourselves time to re-locate all the machinery into our other plants,” he said.

The company has two other locations in Gardena that have manufacturing and office operations. It currently counts 1,050 employees on its payroll, Uribe added.

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