Officials urged the country to export furniture makers to look beyond the High Point and increase business abroad.
"We see the world changing the furniture," Charlie Greene, chairman of the NC Furnishings Export Council, told the furniture makers at a breakfast Tuesday. "Our opportunity in exports."
Established by Governor Jim Hunt in 1995, the council works to improve the export furniture exports to international markets from North Carolina.
Show special meeting of the Pacific Rim opportunities, such as Japan, the world's second largest economy - in addition to the United States - with about $ 4.6 trillion in 2004.
In 2005, the United States exported approximately $ 378 million in furniture to Japan, according to figures presented by Sumio Shibata, a deputy with the State of North Carolina Office in Japan. In the same year, North Carolina exported nearly $ 19 million to Japan, he said.
With economic growth in the densely populated country, the opportunity for increased sales of furniture. But unlike the houses in the United States, Japan houses smaller and more compact requires the furniture.
Japan also has a furniture show similar to High Point International Home Furnishings Market, which opens Thursday. The International Furniture Fair in Tokyo attract about 26,000 visitors and approximately 550 exhibitors.
But he said state leaders to work in front of the house is also a priority. With a shift in some U.S. furniture manufacturing to overseas factories, North Carolina needs to focus back on how it will remain a center of furniture.
"This industry is one in transition," Trade Minister Jim said state coercion. "What we have here in North Carolina is the knowledge of how to design and home furnishings market in the world."
Coercion and other leaders said the future of the country's furniture may be in the distribution and transportation of household furniture.
"North Carolina is within 600 miles of 75 percent of furniture sold in the United States," said Tom Crump, director of the export council. "The future for major distribution."
"We see the world changing the furniture," Charlie Greene, chairman of the NC Furnishings Export Council, told the furniture makers at a breakfast Tuesday. "Our opportunity in exports."
Established by Governor Jim Hunt in 1995, the council works to improve the export furniture exports to international markets from North Carolina.
Show special meeting of the Pacific Rim opportunities, such as Japan, the world's second largest economy - in addition to the United States - with about $ 4.6 trillion in 2004.
In 2005, the United States exported approximately $ 378 million in furniture to Japan, according to figures presented by Sumio Shibata, a deputy with the State of North Carolina Office in Japan. In the same year, North Carolina exported nearly $ 19 million to Japan, he said.
With economic growth in the densely populated country, the opportunity for increased sales of furniture. But unlike the houses in the United States, Japan houses smaller and more compact requires the furniture.
Japan also has a furniture show similar to High Point International Home Furnishings Market, which opens Thursday. The International Furniture Fair in Tokyo attract about 26,000 visitors and approximately 550 exhibitors.
But he said state leaders to work in front of the house is also a priority. With a shift in some U.S. furniture manufacturing to overseas factories, North Carolina needs to focus back on how it will remain a center of furniture.
"This industry is one in transition," Trade Minister Jim said state coercion. "What we have here in North Carolina is the knowledge of how to design and home furnishings market in the world."
Coercion and other leaders said the future of the country's furniture may be in the distribution and transportation of household furniture.
"North Carolina is within 600 miles of 75 percent of furniture sold in the United States," said Tom Crump, director of the export council. "The future for major distribution."
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