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Furniture manufacturing clusters: a worldwide survey
CSIL, July 2003, I Ed., Pages: 120
Price: EUR 600.00 / US$ 813.42
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Throughout the world the furniture industry has given rise to local economic systems or industrial districts with similar characteristics, both in terms of efficiency in manufacturing processes and at the level of competitive capacity, especially on foreign markets. Born from a fusion between economic and manufacturing relationships and economic and social relationships in limited territorial areas, the furniture districts have launched processes of economic development, characterised by a close correspondence between company and manufacturing system.
This report offers an overview of 44 among structured manufacturing clusters and less institutionalised manufacturing areas for the furniture sector worldwide, providing information about furniture firms and territory, institutional bodies and cluster promoting organisations, local financial systems and furniture fairs.
An overview of the world furniture industry is also provided, with data on furniture production and consumption, furniture imports and exports.
Furniture clusters show a wide variety of development models: they can be highly geographically concentrated local systems, with a prevalence of highly integrated small and medium sized companies (the furniture districts in Italy, Austria, Denmark and the Philippines), or they can be a simple concentration of furniture companies in a territory, which can be particularly large (like in North Carolina and Guangdong) and with a low level of integration between firms.
The report analyses the different structures which furniture manufacturing areas have put into practise, with success factors and threats to development of the local economic systems. The furniture manufacturing areas are classified according to geographical concentration, size of companies and level of integration between them.
The considered furniture districts are presented by macro-geographical area, to reflect the different development models of the local furniture systems.
For each furniture manufacturing district basic data are provided (furniture production, furniture manufacturers and employees, furniture exports) as well as information on type of furniture produced, cluster history, development bodies and policies, swot analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats).
Addresses of 115 among furniture manufacturers and distributors, furniture industry associations, educational institutes and export consortia mentioned in the report are also included.
Countries covered: Australia, Austria, Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom, United States.
(Copyright: CSIL Milano)
Contents: short index
- FOR EACH OF THE 44 FURNITURE MANUFACTURING CLUSTERS:
- Basic economic and industrial overview of the area
- History of the considered furniture district
- Furniture supply structure: number of furniture manufacturers, employees
- Furniture exports and main development trends
- Development bodies and policies
- Consortia, cluster promoting organisations, fairs, educational institutes, government incentives for the furniture industry
- Swot analysis
- Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the local economy development
- Other information
- Financial system, fairs
- THE 44 FURNITURE MANUFACTURING CLUSTERS:
- Furniture clusters in Europe
- Italy: Bari and Matera, Brianza, Forli', Manzano, Padova and Verona, Pesaro, Tuscany, Treviso and Pordenone
- Austria: Oberosterreich
- Denmark: Salling
- France: Lorraine, Pays de la Loire
- Germany: North Rhine Westphalia
- Spain: Basque countries, Catalonia, Murcia, Valencian Community
- Other European furniture clusters in France:
- - Ile-de-France, Alsace, Aquitania
- Other European furniture clusters in the United Kingdom:
- - Eastern England, East Midlands, North East, North West, West Midlands, Yorkshire and Humberside
- Furniture clusters worldwide
- Australia: Melbourne
- Brazil: Bento Goncalves, Sao Bento do Sul
- China: Dongguan, Shunde, Zhongshan, Shenzhen, Guangzhou
- Indonesia: Jepara
- Japan: Shizuoka and Aichi, Okawa, Kanto and Tokyo, Hokkaido
- Malaysia: Muar
- New Zealand: Hawke's Bay
- Philippines: Cebu
- South Africa: Western Cape
- Other furniture manufacturing areas
- Brazil: Sao Paulo
- Mexico: Jalisco
- United States: North Carolina, West Michigan
- Appendix:
- Addresses of about 115 furniture companies, furniture industry associations, educational institutes and export consortia mentioned in the report
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Furniture manufacturing clusters: a worldwide survey (S.21)
- Publisher: CSIL
- Price: Euro 600.00 / US$ 813.42
- Language: English
- Pages: 120
- Publication date: July 2003
- Copyright: CSIL Milano
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