Stanley Furniture.(WESTERN)
April, 2007
ROBBINSVILLE -- Stanleytown, Va.-based Stanley Furniture, which makes high-end home furniture, laid off about 200 of its 450 employees here. It blamed slow sales and foreign competition. Graham County's jobless rate recently was 6.9%, among the state's highest, and Stanley was its largest employer.
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