Vietnam’s wood furniture exports are rising so fast that manufacturers are having a hard time finding enough wood to meet demand, a government official said Monday.
The country’s wood furniture exports have risen from 219 million dollars in 2000 to 1.9 billion dollars last year. This year, the government projects a further rise to 2.5 billion [...]

Leading Vietnamese outdoor furniture maker Scansia Pacific Co. Ltd. has clinched a US$200,000 deal to ship nine containers of woodwork to the US and the EU.
The Ho Chi Minh City-based company’s outdoor furniture is made of imported materials mainly from the US, Brazil, New Zealand and Canada.
According to the Vietnam Timber and Forest Product Association [...]

A delegation of Spanish investors completed a one-week visit to Vietnam aimed at identifying opportunities for investment in the furniture sector, according to the Spanish Economic and Commercial Office in Ho Chi Minh City.
The trade mission included representatives from the Spanish Association of Furniture, Manufacturers and Exporters, (Anieme), which has more than 200 member firms.
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Vietnamese furniture companies signed deals worth over US$10 million at an international furniture and handicraft fair held last week in Ho Chi Minh City. The city furniture industry association credited special designs and handcrafting of products for the slew of orders at the five-day Expo 2006 which ended on Sunday.
Nguyen Chien Thang, chairman of the [...]

New Zealand’s television station website at www.tvnz.co.nz has published an article about the success of a New Zealand investor in Vietnam. Following is the full article.
Vietnam’s GDP growth is now second only to China, and New Zealand is its fastest growing trading partner.
Over 40 Kiwi businesses are currently taking advantage of the changing economic [...]

Over 40 New Zealand businesses are currently taking advantage of the changing economic climate in Vietnam, including outdoor furniture manufacturer Steve Jenkins.
Tran Duc furniture employs around 3,000 people in three factories around Ho Chi Minh City and they are churning out container-loads of furniture ready for export.
“If you’d asked me when we built our [...]

The International Fair of Woodworks, Handicrafts and Fine Arts Articles opened in Ho Chi Minh City on Oct. 4 as an official event of the APEC 2006.
Businesses from Viet Nam and 10 countries and territories showcased their products at 650 booths at the fair.
Woodworks for internal and outdoor decoration; rattan, bamboo and ceramic products, materials [...]

Some 270 workers at a subsidiary of Truong Thanh Furniture Corporation Tuesday walked off the job asking for two months of back pay and clarification on a planned work stoppage.
Workers at the plant in Ho Chi Minh City’s Thu Duc district blocked raw materials and machines from access, essentially grinding production to a halt.
The job [...]

A longtime Eugene furniture maker plans to lay off 100 employees and move most of its production to Vietnam, where workers get $150 a month and the government pays for health care.
CEO Scott Whittier said the competition from Asian-made furniture left Whittier Wood Products with no choice.
Sales have fallen for three years, down from $50 [...]

The down side of globalization hit Eugene with a thud Wednesday as Whittier Wood Products announced that it would move most of its furniture making to Vietnam and lay off 100 of its Eugene employees.
CEO Scott Whittier said the company had no choice. The glut of inexpensive, Asian-made furniture on the U.S. market caused a [...]