Made in Miami

Furniture importer likes flexibility of ‘Made in Miami’  - MiamiHerald.com: "Not only was he facing quality issues with the aluminum furniture, but he had to buy too much of it to make the shipping costs work out. The result: a warehouse filled with inventory, eating into his profits. And by making the furniture themselves, Source Outdoor could customize orders and turn them around quickly, without the delays involved in tweaking a product made on the other end of the earth. “You can’t find that in China,’’ Jim Levine, Source Outdoor’s chief operating officer, said during a recent tour of the narrow manufacturing floor, wedged in between the end of the 80,000-square-foot warehouse and the last stack of Chinese wicker furniture ready for sale. He was pointing to a gently bowed leg of a silver barstool made of three-inch thick metal that Levine, a former furniture executive, thinks will sell well with hotel clients." (read more at link above)

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