Stanley Furniture Company Inc. announced that it expects to report flat first quarter of 2015 sales from continuing operations and an operating loss driven by the west coast port strike and weather. The company's sales remained flat with the prior year quarter as backlog from successful fall product introductions shipped. Order rates fell sharply as the quarter progressed due to bad weather mostly in the northeast and mid-Atlantic.

The company made adjustments to cost structure late in the quarter to minimize year-to-date losses by the end of second quarter and to generate net profits beginning in the third quarter of 2015 at the current level of sales.