Office Furniture Supply and Workplace Trends: The Dealers Point of View

Office Furniture Supply and Workplace Trends: The Dealers Point of View

How are office spaces evolving in Europe? The European Office Furniture sector is facing several challenges, assuming increasingly blurred boundaries. Shared spaces are ever more important, as well as the assonance with the domestic environment and the growing collaboration between companies within the sector and others, like outdoor furniture firms. Additionally, the market for refurbished Office Furniture is expanding, with dealers started dealing with these products under the strong initiatives of leading Office Furniture brands.

In such a context, the CSIL Research Report ‘Office Furniture Supply and Workplace Trends: The Dealers Point of View’ is aiming at exploring Office Furniture sector changes according to the dealers’ point of view, even offering up-to-date information on the European Office Furniture market, according to CSIL’s knowledge and in-depth research.

THE OFFICE FURNITURE MARKET IN EUROPE: A SECTOR OVERVIEW

The study is introduced with an overview of the Office Furniture Market providing:

Office Furniture production, consumption, and international trade dynamics over 2019-2024
Office Furniture current market size by European country
How distribution channels for Office Furniture (Direct Sales, Specialist Dealers, Non-Specialists, E-commerce, Others) have evolved
Office Furniture exports, imports, top exporting and importing countries and Exports by destinations/imports by origin
Key factors driving demand for Office Furniture


OFFICE FURNITURE SUPPLY AND WORKPLACE TRENDS. RESULTS FROM CSIL’s SURVEY

For this research report, CSIL also involved around 100 Office Furniture distributors (dealers, distributors, interior designers/specifiers, e-tailers) located in Europe and surveyed in October 2024, to go in-depth into the workplace transformation and describe its impact on product features.

In particular, the CSIL survey focused on:

Dealers’ future expectations
The customer budget by office area, new kinds of furniture, and furnishing in the workspace
Client priorities in the future and contract segments expected to increase
Height Adjustable desks (HAT) and kind of mechanisms
The emerging offer for refurbished items, product categories, price differences, and supply organization
Sales through E-commerce

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE

The considered countries were divided into six areas according to their geographical proximity and similar market characteristics:

Scandinavia: Denmark (DK), Finland (FI), Norway (NO) and Sweden (SE);
DACH: Germany (DE), Austria (AT) and Switzerland (CH);
France + Benelux: Belgium (BE), France (FR), the Netherlands (NL);
United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland (IE).
Southern Europe: Greece (GR), Italy (IT), Portugal (PT) and Spain (ES);
Eastern Europe: Poland (PL), Czech Republic (CZ), Romania (RO), Hungary (HU) and others.