Office Furniture Consumption in Canada and Forecast to 2015

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Title: Office Furniture Consumption in Canada and Forecast to 2015
Published Date: May 2006
Pages: 58
Illustrations: 23
Price: US$ 785.00

Abstract:

This book analyzes the economic and demographic forces impacting the Canadian demand for office furniture. The study is finely segregated by product categories, end-user categories and geographical regions. Forecasts are provided to 2015. The author of the book comes to some interesting and unexpected conclusions which need to be taken into account to gain a thorough appreciation of the present and future course of the Canadian office furniture demand.

Forecast of Canadian Office Furniture Market 2005 to 2015
Millions of current 2005-dollars, at retail prices.

Description:

The Canadian market for office furniture (at retail prices) in 2005 totaled $6,370 million, up 10.5% over 2004. This was the 14th year in a row with positive growth. On an historic perspective, the office furniture market is ahead by 130% between 1995 and 2005. Even if expressed in constant dollar terms the advance of 90% is still quite respectable.

The key contributors to office employment are finance, professional and technical services, management services, and government. We expect that office furniture intensive employment will continue to grow faster than non-office intensive employment. In fact, we foresee overall gain in office employment of 14% or approximately 486,000 persons between 2005 and 2015. In particular, professional and technical services as well as management services will grow at an above-average pace.

Due to the above mentioned employment trends, we believe that growth of the office furniture market this year ¨C as well as in all years within our prediction period (2005 ¨C 2015) ¨C will remain positive ¨C both in value and unit terms, hovering around the 2 to 8% range. For this year, we anticipate a market value of C$ 6,883 million (expressed at retail prices), up from C$ 6,370 million last year. If our predictions are correct, the market value would reach C$ 10,461 million mark in 2015.

The office furniture market is about evenly divided among seats (both of the metal and non-metal variety), all other metal office furniture, and all other non-metal office furniture. The impact new technologies in the office environment caused some shifts in the market composition of office furniture during the past ten years along the following lines:

seats increased their share from 31% to 35%. The advance applies to both metal and non-metal seats, as well as to swivel and other seats.

non-metal office furniture gained market share at the expense of metal office furniture.
there is a shift away from desks towards other forms of office employee accommodation, especially toward systems combining work-tops and storage

Table of Contents

1     The Size of the Market by Product Category and Region 1

2     Client Categories 7
2.1  Client Groups by Industry 8
2.2  Client Groups by Size and Kind of Establishment 15
2.3  Client Groups by Occupation of the End User 20
2.4  Client Groups by Age and Sex of the End User 26
2.5  Client Groups by Quantity per Purchasing Incidence 29
2.6  Governments 30

3     Market Forces 33
3.1  The Pace and Health of the Economy 34
3.2  The Growth of Office Employment 36
3.3  Commercial Construction Activity 38
3.4  The Changing Office Environment 40

4     Forecast and Anticipated Trends 50
4.1  Growth of the Economy 51
4.2  Growth of Office Employment 52
4.3  Growth of the Office Furniture Market 54

Table of Illustrations

Figure 1   Canadian Office Furniture Market 2
Figure 2   Office Furniture Market by Province 5
Figure 3   Office Furniture Market by CMA 6
Figure 4   Employment by Industry 12
Figure 5   Office Employment by Industry by Province 14
Figure 6   Employment by Size of Establishment 16
Figure 7   Employment by Occupation 21
Figure 8   The Office Furniture Market and GDP, 1995 to 2005 35
Figure 9   Office Job Creation and the Office Furniture market 37
Figure 10 Office Vacancy Rates by Major CMA 39
Figure 11 Office Employment by Industry, 2005 to 2015 53

Table 1   Canadian Office Furniture Market by Segment 4
Table 2   Employment by Industry 11
Table 3   Employment by Size of Establishment by Industry 17
Table 4   Canada's 50 Largest Employers 18
Table 5   Canada's Largest Office Employers 19
Table 6   Employment by Occupation 22
Table 7   Office Employment by Occupation by Province 23
Table 8   Office Employment by Occupation by CMA 25
Table 9   Female Share of Employment by Occupation 27
Table 10 Employment by Major Age Group and Gender 28
Table 11 Government Employment by CMA 32
Table 12 Office Furniture Demand, 2005 to 2015 54