The company, which manufacturers about 1,000 pieces of furniture a day, makes one third of its stylish home and office furnishings in Mexico and two thirds in Asia. The pandemic-related shutdowns at its Vietnamese and Indonesian suppliers came a little more than a year after Martin’s maquiladora in Mexico had to close for two months due to COVID-19. The CEO has nearly a dozen people around the globe working on the challenge, which he called “a nightmare.” Right now, the biggest concern for Martin’s company, which ships much of its inventory fully assembled, is securing enough empty ocean-going containers. “Our factories near Ho Chi Minh City are finally starting to reopen – but they are reopening very slowly after being closed for the past eight weeks.” “The Covid Delta (variant) hit all of Asia really hard,” Gil Martin said.
Martin Furniture San Diego-based Martin manufacturers nearly two thirds of its inventory in Vietnam and Indonesia.
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