Last year was still a good one for office furniture in Romania despite delays in delivering scheduled construction projects, local daily Ziarul Financiar reported.
The total market for office furniture in Romania exceeded 80 million euro last year. According to Ziarul Financiar, an increase of 15 per cent was expected this year but the market had the potential to reach 100 million euro by 2011.
One of the factors driving the increase was that companies would renew their office furniture more frequently. "We have noticed that multinationals, as well as Romanian companies, now tend to renew their office furniture at shorter intervals: seven to eight years at present, compared with eight to 10 years in 2004-5," Bogdan Staicu, head of the Mobexpert Office division of Mobexpert, the largest player in the Romanian furniture industry, was quoted by Ziarul Financiar as saying.
