Association of Czech Furniture Manufacturers

The Association of the Czech Furniture Manufacturers was founded in 1995. It follows up the tradition of the joiner partnership that contributed to a professional growth and social acknowledgement of the craft, industry and design, especially in the period between the world wars. A mission and target of the association is to promote and represent interest of all who deals with development, production and sale of furniture. Broad activities include also monitoring European market with furniture and observing works referring the accession to the EU. The association has forty members that come from big and small size companies and professional schools. However the production of association members represents a 40% share of the total furniture production. The association offers to their member’s necessary information of statistical results of furniture production and submits analysis of individual articles. A steadily growth of the furniture production and improvement of profit represent a positive development. The foreign trade balance is also favourable. The furniture industry changed significantly after 1990. Big companies reduced efficiently number of their employees; the technical level of Czech companies was approximated and compared with the level of European furniture production. The highest shares of export on the production are achieved by following producers: TON a.s. Bystrice pod Hostynem; TUSCULUM a.s. Rousínov. Also small and medium sized companies convince nevertheless with their products and design about their part on the market. The association helps their members to find ways how to engage the Czech furniture industry to European furniture market.
The Czech furniture industry has at his disposal an industrial capacity exceeding the consumption of the Czech Republic and is able to offer free capacity not only European furniture market. For more information kindly contact the Association.