Furniture-market registration down only 1% despite crunch
HIGH POINT – Registration for last month’s High Point Market held steady , even with the economic downturn and credit crunch.
The High Point Market Authority reported yesterday that total registration was 75,329 — down 1 percent from both the April 2016 and October 2018 markets.
The number does not mean that everyone who registered attended. The spring market is typically the better-attended of the two shows.
The authority reported that the number of registered buyers was down 1 percent to 43,895. There were 2,635 buyers registered for the first time.
By comparison, the rival Las Vegas market has said that it had “a 50,000 historical registration average,” although it said on Oct. 5 that registration was up 12 percent at its September event compared with the same event in July 2018.
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