The much awaited survey from the Furniture Retail Association,has just been published. The results are gathered from a wide variety of retail shops,scattered across the UK. What is unusual is that the data does come from the smallest shops,that have opted into the scheme as well as the giants of the high street, that we all see every day,in our home towns.
This has certainly been a difficult year. There has been a world wide recession, family budgets have been cautious and the manufacturers have been trying hard to maintain their sales figures, and increase their presence in the market place. The companies that have been successful, have been the companies who have been one step in front, and payed special attention to new designs.
The world in the last year had to come to terms with the fact that it was broke. burnt out and in the gutter with credit cards cut in half, and banks borrowing from their own governments in a last attempt, to balance their books. This gave rise to the interest free factor. This factor was evident an increasing sales for three piece suites,and larger living room items, but was not so essential with bedroom furniture.
Beds were the largest individual selling items, of the last year, this was so for the whole bed market, form niche hand made pine bed market, to the budget divan base market. Bedroom furniture fared well too, this included niche markets like small wardrobes for small bedrooms, and the ever favorite pine wardrobes. These bedroom results were not unexpected as a good night sleep through a recession is essential.
Lounge and dining furniture held up well. Suites were down at 20% from 28%, lounge furniture was well down, which meant people would put up with the old TV stand for another year.The trend in Oak dining table, gained strength. It was though, difficult to have an accurate figure of farmhouse tables sold as these tend to be sold,direct from the few manufacturers left making them.
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