The China Youth Career Development Association (CYCDA) selected for the 2009 Models of Taiwan and Overseas Entrepreneurs 16 winning enterprisers to be honored this year. Established by the CYCDA in 1978 to award entrepreneurs who lead an enterprise to success, Models of Taiwan and Overseas Entrepreneurs are picked as excellent examples who contribute to the nation and society, helping to cre...

The immense success of the Index India Furniture Fair has been partly driven by its groundbreaking design initiative Index Design Boulevard at Index Fairs, Mumbai, which has helped the organizer to raise the trade fair to a new level. Inaugurated in 2008, the Index Design Boulevard was specially important as the first product exhibition in India to make room to showcase the works of well know...

As in many other export segments, the emerging market rivals from China and Vietnam have been over the past 20 years encroaching the market shares commanded by Taiwan-based suppliers of furniture. Besides moving offshore to reduce cost, integrating resources in Taiwan to achieve synergy, and sharpening designs to target upmarket clients for higher margins, Taiwan furniture makers have reportedly ...

As Taiwan's furniture makers moved offshore in search of lower costs over the last 20 years, the local furniture industry has not only shrunk but also been left wanting for makers of traditional items as Shoji or folding screens, those convenient room dividers that are free-standing and often decorated with various motifs. Nevertheless, a few veteran furniture makers still turn out such screens, ...

As birth rates fall around the world, one would expect the children's furniture market to be in terminal decline. In fact it is thriving. Parents may be having fewer kids, but they seem to be spending just as much on the little darlings, driving the children furniture industry up, up and away. Ergonomics, practicality, safety, sanitation, and fun are the key factors in making good children's f...

While the global downturn continues its impact worldwide, former US Fed Reserve chief Greenspan recently implied that stock markets may have reached bottom and that the global economy can't forever be in an abyss. Meanwhile rush orders from the IT sector in China have helped to buoy supplier sentiment in Taiwan, as the mainland China's subsidization of home appliance buys in rural areas is drivin...

A positive side effect of the global recession is that Taiwan's woodworking-equipment makers have been motivated to brainstorm to upgrade as well as accept orders usually shunned by others: they are developing machines with features that help users cut cost, tapping core woodworking technologies to build non-woodworking machines, and eagerly vying small orders for made-to-order machines. "Tou...

Gathering the best interior designers and furniture suppliers globally at the annual Imm Cologne, staged at the Koelnmesse in Cologne Jan. 19-25, is virtually a rite of passage for buyers worldwide who are looking for the newest and most popular trends in furniture. Regarded irrefutably just as influential as Saloni Milano of Italy, Imm Cologne equals the Italian counterpart in Europe for size, ...

Being the 23rd staging this year, the China International Furniture Fair Guangzhou (CIFFG) 2009, held March 18-30, 2009, has definitely earned its honor as the "Asian trading center for office furniture," during which hundreds of exhibitors displayed wide-ranging office, business, and household furniture in one of the biggest exhibitions venues globally. The CIFFG 2009, a 12-day event that is...

Japan's Furniture Imports and Exports in the First Half of 2008 Japan's furniture imports in the first half of 2008 totaled approximately ￥244.17 billion, down 7% compared with results for the same period last year. For the first time in many years Japan's furniture imports demonstrated year-on-year negative growth, though a half-year term. Based on the first-half results, total imports for...