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Article: Vietnam is increasing its outdoor furniture capacity.
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- Casual Living
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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Stories by Cinde W. Ingram
Looks to U.S. market and indoor lines for growth
Scansia Pacific Co. Ltd., was among the first outdoor furniture manufacturers in Vietnam to figure out how to sell successfully to the American market.
Casual specialty retailers may be familiar with its wood furniture designs even if they don't know who actually made it. That's true of a few other Vietnamese manufacturers, too, because U.S. distributors guard the names of their suppliers.
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