{"id":81783,"date":"2022-02-02T07:30:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T07:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/covid-casts-long-shadow-european-furniture-sector\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:56:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:56:52","slug":"covid-casts-long-shadow-european-furniture-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/covid-casts-long-shadow-european-furniture-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID casts long shadow over the European furniture sector"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the European furniture sector, as in other industries, the COVID pandemic is casting a long shadow, with no certainty yet that the most dramatic swings in supply and demand are in the past. Several European countries, including France and Italy, were reporting record numbers of new daily COVID cases in the last week of January, the increase due to the emergence and rapid spread of the new Omicron variant, first detected in South Africa.<\/p>\n

As a result, several European countries are once again in the grip of tight government lockdowns. This is clear from Oxford University\u2019s \u201cStringency Index\u201d, a composite measure of the level of lockdown across nine metrics (such as school and workplace closures, restrictions on public gatherings, stay-at-home requirements, restrictions on travel etc). On a scale of 0 (no measures) to 100 (strictest response), at the end of January the score for Germany (84) was the highest in the world, while Italy (77) and France (69) were also very high by international standards.<\/p>\n

More positively, the Stringency Index for the UK, where the full effects of the Omicron variant first became apparent in Europe, was down at 48 as the government has moved to reduce restrictions as the current wave of the virus seems to have peaked.<\/p>\n

This has contributed to rising optimism that the Omicron variant, while highly infectious and still dangerous, does not lead to the same proportion of hospitalisations and deaths as previous variants, at least where a large proportion of the population is vaccinated or has been previously exposed to the virus.<\/p>\n

So, while there is still no certainty, there is more confidence that the market situation for furniture in Europe will begin to \u201cnormalise\u201d during 2022, at least to the extent that it will be less affected by sharp changes in demand and clogged up supply chains than in the previous two years.<\/p>\n

There is also greater clarity now on the immediate impact of the first few waves of the pandemic and a widening pool of data to work out what the longer-term effects of the pandemic might be.<\/p>\n

Data on global furniture consumption just published by CSIL, the Italy-based furniture industry research organisation, shows that, after the initial shock when the pandemic hit in the first half of 2020, the European and wider global market for wood furniture picked up rapidly.<\/p>\n

According to CSIL \u201cthe prolonged period at home has influenced consumers\u2019 priorities and how to buy products, with a strong growth in online purchases\u201d.<\/p>\n

CSIL also note that \u201cthe lockdown experience highlighted the importance of the home which acquired a new centrality both for living and working, becoming a new fulcrum of our daily activities\u201d.<\/p>\n

This in turn fed into changes in the types of furniture required by European consumers. According to CSIL, \u201cspending more time at home pointed out the usefulness of having functional spaces for the whole family, possibly modular furniture also suitable for working from home.<\/p>\n

Thus, great attention has been put to the home office environment, but also to the kitchen, the comfort segments (from mattresses to upholstery) and the outdoor furniture\u201d.<\/p>\n

This led to a greater proportion of spending being directed towards furniture as \u201cconsumers invested in improving their living spaces, often allocating to furniture substantial portions of income made available because of decreased expenditure for restaurants, vacations and other leisure activities\u201d.<\/p>\n

The overall effect was to limit the scale of the contraction in furniture consumption during the initial phase of the pandemic. CSIL estimates that the value of furniture purchased worldwide in 2020 was US$415 billion, around 6% less than the previous year (when considered in apparent consumption valued at production prices excluding retail mark-up).<\/p>\n

The contraction in 2020 was particularly large in the office furniture sector, following the decline in investment by both industry and the service sector, but demand in other sectors including kitchens and outdoor furniture remained more resilient.<\/p>\n

Such was the strength of the rebound last year, driven by the boom in consumer spending on furniture, CSIL reckon that worldwide furniture consumption was already back to the pre-pandemic level in 2021. The recovery is expected to strengthen and widen, in terms of geographic scope, during 2022.<\/p>\n

The CSIL forecast for furniture consumption growth in the EU, UK, and European Economic Area (EEA) countries - at 4.4% in 2022 - is particularly encouraging, being the largest for any global region. However, this partly reflects a weaker rebound compared to other regions \u2013 particularly the US \u2013 last year.<\/p>\n

CSIL reckon that the extra government stimulus from the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility \u2013 which is filtering through rather more slowly than national level stimulus measures around the world \u2013 will be a particularly important driver of consumption in the EU during 2022.<\/p>\n

CSIL reckon that furniture consumption worldwide will grow by around 3.9% this year, with growth in North America expected to be 4.0%.<\/p>\n

Growth in other areas of the world is expected to be somewhat slower including Asia and the Pacific forecast (3.8%), the Middle East and Africa (3.3%), Europe outside the EU inclusive of Russia and Turkey (3.0%) and Central and South America (3.0%).<\/p>\n

CSIL\u2019s optimistic assessment of near-term strong furniture market growth at a global level is reflected in other analysis. For example, Statista\u2019s Consumer Market Outlook estimates that revenue from the global furniture industry, which hit $1.3 trillion in 2020, will rise consistently to reach $1.6 trillion by 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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