Global Industry Overview: Furniture, Household
This industry's participants manufacture all types of furniture for household use. Their products range from all-wood furniture and cabinetry to upholstered pieces and mattresses. For coverage of office furniture, see Furniture, Office.
Industry Snapshot
The production and sale of household furniture is a large, highly competitive business in which thousands of different companies worldwide participate. Once largely confined by national boundaries, household furniture has become a multibillion-dollar import and export business. Although dominated on all continents by a handful of growing corporations aiming at the mass market, the furniture market still has room for...