Guangzhou office furniture exhibition "external heat inside and cold"

The 2013 China (Guangzhou) International Furniture Fair (Office Environment Exhibition) and China Guangzhou International Woodworking Machinery and Furniture Ingredients Exhibition hosted by China Foreign Trade Center (Group) and Cologne International Exhibition Co., Ltd. were held at Guangzhou Pazhou Convention and Exhibition Center. Regardless of the booth area or the scale of the exhibition, this exhibition has shown a hot trend. However, under the surface of “hot”, the office furniture industry has also presented a “cold” worry.

Eight overseas pavilions unveiled

The scale of the current office environment exhibition is about 210,000 square meters, including three professional exhibition areas of office environment, hotel supporting and public furniture, attracting more than 900 well-known enterprises at home and abroad to participate in the exhibition; the scale of woodworking machinery and furniture ingredients exhibition is about 130,000 square meters. More than 1,000 exhibitors.

Especially worthy of attention is the woodworking machinery and furniture ingredients that entered the tenth year of the exhibition this year. The number and quality of exhibitors have been greatly improved. The German pavilion, the American Canadian Pavilion, the American Hardwood Export Committee Pavilion, the Italian Pavilion, the Spanish Pavilion, the Taiwan Pavilion, the Turkish Pavilion, and the Chilean Pavilion’s eight overseas pavilions participated in the exhibition. Less new products and technologies. According to data from Cologne International Exhibition Co., Ltd., one of the organizers of the exhibition, Chinese furniture accounts for about 37% of the world's market share. Therefore, the company is very optimistic about the Chinese market, and even in this year's office exhibitors specially invited to let domestic enterprises participate in this year. International furniture production, woodworking and interior decoration exhibition in Cologne, Germany.

There are hidden concerns under the prosperity

The exhibition is booming, but there are also hidden concerns. Xu Guang, a well-known professional designer of office furniture and office environment in Taiwan with more than 30 years of experience, said that the office furniture industry is in a depressed market environment. The economic environment in foreign countries is still not ideal, the domestic real estate market is subject to regulation and control, and there is a serious overcapacity. These factors not only affect civilian furniture, but also affect office furniture.

The market outlook for office furniture this year has an unfavorable and important factor. The government began to pay attention to the regulation of administrative equipment costs other than the "three public". Taking Guangzhou as an example, the website of the Finance Bureau publicized the newly revised "Standards for the Common Facilities of Public Facilities in Guangzhou Municipalities", and the purchase price of office furniture also A very detailed specification. With the price ceiling, the ultra-luxury office furniture in the past will not appear in the relevant government department office, which has a significant impact on the large number of government procurement projects of office enterprises. The new leadership of the party and state leaders has promoted the diligence of the wind, which will have a far-reaching impact on the office procurement project of office furniture for a long time to come.