Mirroring the steaming growths in the luxury goods and new car segments in China, the nation’s furniture industry has recorded average year-on-year growth of 22.2% in the last 30 years, turning China into the world’s largest furniture manufacturing base with annual output accounting for about one-fourth of global volume, with reports of China’s furniture output to very likely reach 2.4 trillion ...

Woody Chic, the brand Yung Shing Furniture Co. first introduced 12 years ago, was a turning point of the five-decade old furniture company established in 1958, which has had to adapt to changes along with the growth of Taiwan’s furniture industry over the past half century. “Branding is a strategy that Yung Shing adopts to identify its market position,” said the president William Jiang. ...

The Dongguan Famous Furniture Association, organizer of the International Famous Furniture Fair (Dongguan), unveiled a massive project to further build its reputation as a trade group overseeing a world-class furniture supply hub in southern China. Occupying over 13 million square feet and dubbed “Famous Furnishings Expo Park,” the project was unveiled to an audience of 1,000 people on Dec. 20, ...

As part of the centennial celebration of Taiwan in 2011 sponsored by the Council for Cultural Affairs, the thematic exhibition focusing on a core piece of furnishing—chairs—displayed a wide range, from those brought by early migrants from China during the 17-18th centuries or earlier to modern versions created by furniture companies in Taiwan. The exhibition, held Oct. 15-Nov. 30, is organiz...

Custom-made furniture is a unique niche in Taiwan’s furniture industry, characterized by the demands of discriminating customers and the methods used to meet those demands. While Taiwanese furniture companies are well known for their efficient mass OEM (original equipment manufacturing) production for the international market, it is custom-made furniture that truly distinguishes the styling a...

As Taiwanese furniture makers seek to build a reputation in the market with their own brand names, their weapon of choice for adding value to their products is patents. A number of companies, after years of struggle, have launched products incorporating their own patented designs, and a number of them showed off their achievements in the “ROC Centennial Celebration: Taiwan Furniture Retrospection...

Despite the downsizing of Taiwan’s furniture industry resulting from the massive outflow of production capacity to China and Vietnam, a significant number of office furniture manufacturers have chosen to keep their production in Taiwan. The main reason for them to stay on the island is that they feel comfortable operating at home, where they have access to a highly efficient, comprehensive networ...

The rivalry between woodworking-equipment makers in Taiwan and China echoes a similar story, as that heard in many other sectors, that the rapid rise in the latter is gradually overtaking the former in global ranking and also forcing Taiwan’s counterparts to speed up developing high value-added machines. Also repeated in other sectors, China’s woodworking machinery industry has unseated Tai...

Responding to industry demand for a knowledge-based platform at the annual exhibition, The Pinnacle Group International (TPGI Pte Ltd), Singapore’s leading events organizer, together with the organisers of International Furniture Fair Singapore 2012/29th ASEAN Furniture Show (IFFS/AFS 2012), Deco Asia 2012 and Hospitality Asia 2012, a triple event spread across 70,000 square meters and expected t...

Before the Nationalist government moved from China to Taiwan in 1949, the island’s furniture industry was focused on traditional Chinese styles strongly influenced by the furniture in China’s coastal provinces of Fujian and Guangdong, where the ancestors of most Taiwanese came from. It also had a strong Japanese component, thanks to Japan’s colonial rule of the island from 1895 to 1945. The pe...