It’s always a shock when even the CBC publishes a piece where no attempt is made to sugarcoat bad news about the effects of the lockdowns and supply chain snarls. More people are waking up to the reality that the economy is not a VCR which can be seamlessly paused and restarted at will.
Over the years, the business occasionally struggled with slim profit margins, but it started seeing success when it started serving the hospitality industry a decade ago.
That work evaporated once the pandemic hit. While business started to rebound, DeFehr Furniture was hit by supply chain disruptions. There were shortages of the raw materials the company required, and the competition for those products was fierce.
In the last month, DeFehr shut down its plant for four days because it did not have handles.
“DeFehr Furniture was once a division of Palliser Furniture, until it was split off 18 years ago into a separate entity focused on casegoods.”
lets see how Palliser Furniture is doing….
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/palliser-furniture-expanding-operations-1.6407901
maybe the 200 people that DeFehr is laying off can apply for one of the 300 jobs at Palliser?
Phuck the cbc and yourself. I respect anyone that try’s to make a business,they were thriving I wish them good luck.As I said before mostly left wingers on here they just don’t know it
You mean CBC, the greatest champions of every bit of lunacy the lockdown involved is kind of admitting maybe that wasn’t such a good idea? [Spit] Get back to me when they start saying maybe the vaccine mandates were a bad idea. Turdo’s Propaganda Corp are complicit in all the bad things that happened because of the lockdowns including those employees at De Fehrs and they are also complicit for all the vaccines injuries Canadians have suffered..
Two years of lockdown for absolutely no reason at all. The assholes who decided to go with china’s idiotic scheme should be strung up. They had pandemic plans similar to the great Barrington declaration but somehow decided to go with china’s insane policy. Why exactly was that? Unbelievably there’s still retards that think it worked! They’ll be wearing masks btw.
Sounds like the DeFehr siblings got a divorce. Palliser Furniture used to have 142,000 square feet plant in Airdrie, Alberta producing upholstered furniture. It migrated to Mexico in 2007. They have four plants in Mexico. The Winnipeg plant was huge compared to the Alberta plant. Palliser used to be around 500 on the Canadian Fortune 500. It was a pretty big deal for Winnipeg. I’m sure the Mexican plants rely on Mexican Mennonite management and labour. A whack of loggers and truckers in Northern Alberta are Mexican Mennonites.
Always get the feeling the feedback on here is a set up.Could be wrong
Government induced chaos.