#3108955 - 01/04/13 10:09 AM
Obama's Midas touch
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Crappie Luck
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Lincolnton Furniture Company closed abruptly Thursday just one year after it was hailed by President Barack Obama as an example of the recovering U.S. economy.
Furniture-making operations stopped indefinitely and only a few people will remain employed moving forward, company financial officer Ben Causey said.
“I don’t know where it’s going to go exactly; we’re still evaluating our situation,” Causey said. “We just didn’t have any choice at this point.”
The company was not receiving the orders it needed to sustain its operations, Causey said.
“We needed more orders is really what it boiled down to,” he said. “We thought they would materialize.”
Owner Bruce Cochrane, a fifth generation furniture-manufacturer, formed the company in 2011 with a $5 million investment and the hope he could make a profit off people who wanted to buy furniture made in America.
It was a move that caught the attention of North Carolina officials and those in the White House. Last year, Cochrane sat with the first lady during Obama’s 2012 State of the Union Address. He also joined the president and other business leaders in a discussion about how to create more jobs at home.
Attempts late Thursday to reach Cochrane were unsuccessful. Causey said company officials were thankful for the support they received from the community over the past year-and-a-half.
Jerry Cochrane, Bruce Cochrane’s uncle and former Lincoln County Commissioner, learned about the company’s closing Thursday.
“I was surprised that they stopped the operation this quickly,” he said. “But starting a furniture business now is very difficult in this country.”
Last week, the Gaston Gazette recognized Bruce Cochrane as one of its “persons of the year” in 2012 for starting the furniture-manufacturing in his hometown.
“Everybody was rooting for us and wanted us to succeed,” Causey said.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/04/31...l#storylink=cpy
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#3109004 - 01/04/13 10:38 AM
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Pic IN the Casa
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He got his soundbyte a year ago and the media sure won't let us know about this. He could care less about them now.
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#3109266 - 01/04/13 02:13 PM
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More like the"outhouse touch".
Everything he touches turns to crap.
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#3109442 - 01/04/13 04:49 PM
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That's a recurring theme. Obama visits a business to much fanfare, said business goes bankrupt, and reports of this are only found on conservative news sites.
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#3109984 - 01/04/13 11:14 PM
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If he ever walks up the sidewalk to my office, I'm locking the door!
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