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Furniture-market registration down only 1% despite crunch
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Published: November 4, 2009
Updated: 11/04/2009 12:10 am
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 2009 and October 2008 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 2008.
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