The office furniture market

MPA’s analytical research on the office furniture market covers the sector’s size and growth, market segments, manufacturers, distribution and forecasts. Product classifications include seating, desking, storage, computer trolleys and screens.

The research reviews the local and global factors affecting capital expenditure in office furniture and their specific impact in the UK. The report describes the existing levels of competitiveness, and analyses the continuing presence of the relatively new office furniture players in the mass-market retail scene.

MPA’s research reveals the results of new technology developments – like the roll out of broadband Internet connections, the use of flat screens, laptops and digital telephony. All of these are seen to have influenced the style and design of office furniture. Moreover, research discloses new marketing directions from suppliers - innovations emerging in both value-added, design and planning.

Of the market segments in office furniture, the seating sector is analysed first in general, then with specific reporting on adjustable seating, reception seating, beam seating (in canteens or auditoriums) and specialist seating (including visitors, meetings chairs and breakout/café seating). Dominant in the office furniture market is desking, covering as it does an extremely broad range of applications.

The storage sector is dealt with – those ranges in office furniture that include market products such as cupboards, filing cabinets, wall and archive storage systems and shelving – and trends are highlighted as they respond to the advance of the long-heralded ‘paperless office’.

Completing our office furniture market analysis, MPA covers computer trolleys, and office screens.

This MPA research is vital to all those with a commercial interest in the office furniture market.

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