Global Upholstered Furniture Industry Report 2025–2026: Market Trends, Trade, and Leading Companies
The global upholstered furniture industry continues to evolve as consumer demand, trade flows, and production centers shift in response to economic, social, and geopolitical dynamics. The latest World Upholstered Furniture Industry Report 2025–2026 delivers a detailed snapshot of the sector, covering production, consumption, and international trade trends from 2015 to 2024, while providing forecasts for 2025 and 2026. In addition, the report highlights the strategies of leading manufacturers, outlines the top 20 national markets, and provides corporate profiles of the largest companies shaping the industry.
Introduction and Executive Summary
The report begins with an executive summary that captures the key insights shaping the global upholstered furniture market. It examines the balance of regional and country-level consumption, trade openness, and production strengths, while also exploring themes such as globalization, nearshoring, and ongoing trade tensions that influence industry dynamics.
Based on surveys and interviews conducted between March and June 2025 with major international upholstered furniture manufacturers, the study also evaluates how companies are navigating recent challenges. These include disruptions in supply chains, raw material availability, and shifting consumer demand for sustainable and design-forward products.
This opening section also reviews recent mergers and acquisitions (M&A), highlighting consolidation trends and partnerships designed to strengthen competitive advantage. In addition, it assesses the Q1 2025 financial performance of publicly listed companies, offering a real-time benchmark of how the industry is performing amid broader economic uncertainties.
World Market Outlook
The second part of the report presents an in-depth view of the world upholstered furniture market outlook. It identifies the largest markets, their growth rates, and their degree of openness to imports. The role of major exporting countries—such as China, Vietnam, and Poland—is analyzed, with attention to how these nations continue to dominate global supply chains.
A breakdown of production by covering material (leather, fabric, and others) highlights consumer preferences and industrial strengths in different regions. For instance, leather remains a strong segment in markets such as Italy and the United States, while fabric dominates in Asia and many parts of Europe.
Forecasts for 2025 and 2026 are grounded in macroeconomic indicators and industry-specific dynamics, projecting steady but uneven growth across markets. Consumption and production are analyzed across major regions:
- Europe (EU-27 + UK, Norway, Switzerland, and Iceland)
- Central & Eastern Europe (non-EU, including Russia)
- Asia-Pacific
- Middle East & Africa
- North America
- South America
This geographic segmentation provides a clear view of how the upholstered furniture industry is shifting in response to regional economic conditions and demographic trends.
Key Markets and Countries
A central feature of the report is its analysis of the Top 20 upholstered furniture markets worldwide, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Türkiye, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Vietnam.
For each of these countries, the report provides:
- Upholstered furniture production, consumption, exports, and imports from 2015–2024.
- Forecasts for yearly consumption growth in 2025 and 2026.
- Production quantities between 2019–2024 for key producers such as China, the U.S., Vietnam, Poland, and Italy.
- A breakdown of production value by covering material, when available.
The competitive landscape within each country is also outlined, with short company profiles of major manufacturers. In total, around 800 firms are reviewed, with details such as headquarters, product portfolio, turnover ranges, employee counts, export shares, and production facilities.
Additionally, export destinations and import sources are highlighted to map trade flows, while socio-economic indicators—such as population data and age structure forecasts through 2035—provide broader market context.
For 70 countries in total, summary tables present upholstered furniture production, consumption, imports, and exports from 2015–2024, along with forecasts for 2025–2026. These tables also track trade openness and rankings by imports, exports, and consumption growth.
Leading Global Manufacturers
The report devotes a special section to profiling the 30 leading upholstered furniture manufacturers worldwide. Each profile includes information on headquarters, subsidiaries, brands, financial performance, and production facilities. Turnover trends, employment levels, M&A activity, and export sales are documented, offering insights into how the most influential players are positioning themselves for the future.
This section not only reflects the dominance of long-established global brands but also underscores the growing influence of Asian manufacturers, particularly in Vietnam, China, and India, which have significantly expanded their global market share in recent years.
