Currently 75% of Egypt’s wood furniture exports are oriented towards the Middle East (the fastest growing market during the1990s), Europe (particularly UK, France, Italy and Spain) and USA. According to 2008 figures Egypt’s production of furniture reached 3 billion USD, with an export value of 320 million USD. The sector occupies one million in workforce.
2008 Data:
Total Registered companies at IMC 1315 with a total one million Employees
Total exports 1,696 LE mn EGP with 18% increase
Total Investments of Registered clients is 15 billion EGP
Sectoral Projects 2009:
Develop new exporters and open new markets
Increase the annual export growth by 15% to 20%
Position Egypt in the Design world through executing several Design workshops
Develop Technology Centres and Accreditation Labs
Create a professional designers pool to adapt the concept of “Designer for each Factory”
Structure the local market via promoting Furniture Malls
Host long and short term international experts in each factory
Develop a furniture export strategy, with the objective of making an assessment of the present performance of the Egyptian furniture exports, and benchmarking analysis to identify key strategic positioning of the industrial exports according to quantitative and qualitative terms
Upgrade productivity of the sector with respect to labour, machine productivity and cos effectiveness., this will be addressed through offering a wide range of services (production, quality, training, etc.)
Main Services to Furniture Companies 2009:
In company Expert for long and short time period.
Production Optimization and Reengineering
Value added activities such as branding, product design and development, and use of CAD/CAM Softwares
