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Prestigious annual furniture exhibition, Salone del Mobile in Milan city will continue to be the entrance for the manufacturer and exporter of Indonesian furniture. From here, open an opportunity to increase the search intensity of development opportunities overseas business network. Milan as the capital of fashion and design world is the proper location for the furniture industry of Indonesia to orbit product excellence, creativity and competencies.

RI Ambassador to Italy Mohamad Oemar convey this exhibition during the Salone del Mobile in Milan (14-19/4).

The optimism reflected in the opportunities in the future success of the two Indonesian companies, which cumulatively have trial order worth € 220 thousand, or approximately USD 2.7 billion, only in the first two days of the exhibition is. [More...]

“In terms of quality, Indonesian furniture is not less competitive with other Asian countries in entering European markets,” said Adi Pranoto one of five owners of the furniture company exhibitors.

He added that the Indonesian craftsmen carving that characterizes the design of furniture products of interest by foreign buyers of fine and should be considered more superior than the carving craftsmen in other countries.

After a period of economic crisis in 2009, there was optimism among analysts and market players that prospects of world furniture trade will increase further in the next two years. Institution Center for Industrial Studies (CSIL) Milan furniture world trade growth estimates this year amounted to 2% (USD 94 billion) and 5% (USD 98 billion) in 2011.

Therefore, in the exhibition later in 2011, Indonesia will enlarge the exhibition pavilions. During the last five years, furniture companies in Central Java to get the guidance and facilitation of Trade and Industry Department Government of Central Java, and supported by the Embassy to Rome and Milan ITPC continues to actively participate in the exhibition Salone del Mobile.

It is time for Indonesia’s furniture industry utilize the momentum of improvement of the world furniture industry trade. Choosing where promotion and the right partners is essential. Special Europe, opportunities and potential marketing of furniture needs to also focus on aspects related to the construction industry and housing renovation.

“One of the benefits of Indonesian products are high quality with competitive price,” he conveyed Trade Attaché Embassy Rome Frank JW Kandou.

CSIL market data also shows that the estimated 58% of total world furniture production is controlled by the developed countries. While China, Vietnam and Indonesia are three of the developing countries 42% of total supplier of the world furniture production.

Production and growth of market access to Indonesia, according to Frank Kandou, will rise along with new investment, particularly related to design and export development.

“The opportunity is still open for business Asmindo and furniture from Indonesia to inform potential and opportunities Indonesian furniture industry at exhibitions in Milan that will come,” said Ambassador Oemar.

Exhibition Salone del Mobile is one of the largest international furniture exhibition in the world since the year 1961 with the number of participants per year on average in 1300 entrepreneurs from across the globe, and visited at least 270 000 buyers from various countries and no less than 30,000 general public.

(Source: Embassy of Rome)