Thijs Meijerink

Polish Furniture Industry: Market Trends, Exports, and Profitability

Prepared for Big Furniture Group in partnership with Furnilytics, this analysis reviews Poland’s furniture industry, showing strong EU positioning, inflation-driven value growth, and rising margin pressure outside resilient OEM models.

Furniture Expenditure per Capita: Country-Level Trends in Major Retail Markets

This article examines furniture expenditure per capita based on retail turnover to shed light on consumer-facing demand across major markets. It compares within-country trends and broad cross-country patterns, highlighting pandemic effects, recovery dynamics, and recent normalisation.

Brazil Furniture Industry 2025: Market Size, Exports and Productivity

Brazil’s furniture industry enters 2025 as a large but highly domestic market. Nominal growth has been driven by inflation, while exports remain limited despite shifting from the U.S. toward Europe. International comparisons highlight strong scale but low productivity.

Furniture Manufacturing in Europe: Size, Specialisation, and Productivity in 2025

Furniture manufacturing varies widely across Europe in scale, specialisation, and productivity. Using official Eurostat data, this article compares countries in 2025 across output, employment, GDP share, and value added per employee to highlight structural differences within the sector.

JYSK Growth and Market Share in Europe’s High-Growth Furniture Markets

JYSK’s growth in Europe’s high-growth furniture markets is driven by expansion and rising turnover per store, with market share increasing relative to the overall furniture retail market, particularly in South East Europe.

Growing Imports Reshape the EU Furniture Trade Balance

EU furniture trade is shifting. Stable exports and rising imports have turned the EU into a net furniture importer, with import share rising from 15% to 21% since 2015. While still below the US level, reliance on China continues to grow.

Europe’s High-Growth Furniture Markets: Macroeconomic Trends and Outlook

Disposable incomes and housing investment are rising faster in Central, Baltic, and South-East Europe than in the EU average. Despite lower income levels, strong convergence and resilient housing trends point to growing importance of these high-growth regions in Europe’s furniture retail market.

Vietnam’s Export-Driven Furniture Sector: Trends and Risks

Vietnam’s furniture industry is rising fast, driven by exports and anchored by strong US demand. This analysis tracks production trends, market dependence, price dynamics, and how global shocks and tariffs continue to shape Vietnam’s role in the supply chain.

European Woodworking Machinery: Industry and Export Trends

The European woodworking-machinery industry shows steady production growth, shifting export markets, and rising value despite declining volumes. Germany and Italy lead the sector as global demand evolves across Asia and North America.

Patterns in US Furniture Imports: Supply Shifts and Emerging Trade Pressures

US furniture imports have become an increasingly prominent topic, driven