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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Executive Summary

Market Definition

INTRODUCTION

MARKET SECTORS

MARKET TRENDS

Market Size

THE TOTAL MARKET

MARKET SECTORS

Table 1: Total Apparent UK Market for Timber and Wooden Products (£m at msp), 1992-1996

Table 2: Apparent UK Market for Wooden Furniture (£m at msp), 1992-1996

Table 3: Apparent UK Market for Sawmilling and Planing of Wood (£m at msp), 1992-1996

Table 4: Apparent UK Market for Builders' Carpentry and Joinery (£m at msp), 1992-1996

Table 5: Apparent UK Market for Semi-Finished Timber Products (£m at msp), 1992-1996

Table 6: Apparent UK Market for Wooden Containers (£m at msp), 1992-1996

Table 7: Apparent UK Market for Miscellaneous Wooden Products (£m at msp), 1992-1996

Table 8: Apparent UK Market for Wooden Manufactured Products (£m at msp), 1992-1996

Table 9: Apparent UK Market for Timber and Semi-Finished Timber Products (£m at msp), 1992-1996

Industry Background

INTRODUCTION

DOMESTIC PRODUCTION

NUMBER OF ENTERPRISES

EMPLOYMENT

TRADE ASSOCIATIONS

Table 10: Estates Managed by Forest Enterprise, 1993-1996

Table 11: Forest Land Owned by Forest Enterprise in Great Britain (hectares), 1996

Table 12: New Planting and Restocking by Forestry Commission (hectares), 1992-1996

Table 13: New Planting and Restocking - Area of Planting by Private Woodland Owners for Which Grants Were Paid in Great Britain (hectares), 1992-1996

Table 14: Wood and Wood Products - Number of VAT-Registered Enterprises in Production Industries by Size of Turnover, 1996

Table 15: Wood and Wood Products - Number of Local Units in Manufacturing Industries by Size of Employment, 1996

Table 16: Employment in Timber and Wooden Furniture Industries by Sector, 1992-1996

Competitor Analysis

THE MARKETPLACE

MARKET LEADERS

Table 17: Leading UK Timber and Joinery Companies by Turnover (£m), 1995/1997

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT)

STRENGTHS

WEAKNESSES

OPPORTUNITIES

THREATS

Buying Behaviour

INTRODUCTION

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

THE FURNITURE INDUSTRY

THE DO-IT-YOURSELF SECTOR

PACKAGING

Table 18: Value of Output of New Work of the Construction Industry at Current Prices (£m), 1992-1996

Table 19: Value of Output of Repairs and Maintenance of the Construction Industry at Current Prices (£m), 1992-1996

Outside Suppliers to the Industry

DOMESTIC SUPPLIERS

OVERSEAS SUPPLIERS

WOODWORKING MACHINERY

Table 20: Forest Area in the UK and Timber Removed (000 hectares and cubic metres), 1992-1996

Table 21: Overseas Trade in Timber and Timber Products (£m), 1994-1996

Table 22: Overseas Trade in Semi-Finished Wood Products (£m), 1994-1996

Table 23: Overseas Trade in Builders' Carpentry and Joinery (£m), 1994-1996

Table 24: Overseas Trade in Other Wooden Articles (£m), 1994-1996

Table 25: Overseas Trade in Wooden Containers (£m), 1994-1996

Table 26: Overseas Trade in Wooden Furniture (£m), 1994-1996

Table 27: Summary of Total Imports and Exports (£m), 1994-1996

Current Issues

BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION

WASTE RECLAMATION AND RECYCLING

PREPACKED TIMBER

TIMBER PRESERVATIVES

COMPANY DEVELOPMENTS

Forecasts

ECONOMIC BACKGROUND

FORECASTS 1997 TO 2001

Table 28: Total Apparent UK Market for Timber and Wooden Products (£m at 1997 prices), 1997-2001

Company Profiles

INTRODUCTION

DEFINITIONS

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Sources

ASSOCIATIONS

PERIODICALS

DIRECTORIES

GENERAL SOURCES

HBI UK INFORMATION SOURCES

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS

OTHER SOURCES

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The total value of the apparent UK market in 1996 for timber and joinery products is estimated by Key Note at £10.78bn, which represents a total increase of 17 percent over the period between 1992 and 1996.

In 1996, furniture sales to domestic and commercial outlets accounted for 38.7 percent of the industry's turnover, sawmilling 25.1 percent, joinery 16.1 percent, semi-finished products 10.7 percent, wooden containers 4.8 percent and miscellaneous wooden items, such as packaging, 4.6 percent. The importance of furniture to the industry is that it consumes large quantities of timber in its construction and contributes much of its value. There are substitute structural materials such as plastic, stainless steel and aluminium, but these are not as prestigious and as fashionable as wood.

The construction industry is the second largest user of semi-finished and finished wood products in the UK, but paradoxically probably contributes most to the demand for wooden furniture. New construction of houses and commercial buildings such as offices and hotels, public service institutions, such as hospitals and educational buildings, and refurbishments of older buildings, usually results in demand for new furniture and furnishings. As the construction industry is now recovering strongly from a long period of weak demand, it is effectively helping to encourage higher expenditure on joinery products.

Much of the raw and semi-processed timber used for the manufacture of semi-finished and finished products has to be imported, so there is a large trade deficit which is only partly off-set by a limited range of exports of these products.

Trading prospects for the building and construction industry have significantly improved since the announcement in 1997 of major projects for commercial building, housing and institutions within the private and public sector, which should secure the longer term future for the industry.

Key Note forecasts that between 1997 and 2001, unemployment will continue to fall, real incomes will rise and the implementation of most of the projects now under consideration should ensure that the total value of demand will reach at least £11.9bn, at constant prices, by 2001. Furniture sales will continue to be the single biggest outlet by value, but their contribution to total sales will fall relative to the growth in sales of sawmilling and joinery timber to the building and construction industry.

Text © 1997 Key Note

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