Capital do Móvel returns to Lisbon next week with 40 companies
About 40 furniture companies on display, on Wednesday, July 10, in Lisbon, as new Portuguese furniture and decoration at the 57th edition of Capital do Móvel, which will be held for the second time in the capital.
“The Capital of the first time in Lisbon and, despite the pandemic, was passed to visitors. That’s why we want, we will continue to take the event to the Portuguese capital and, in this way, we will publish the work of ours explained the executive director of the Association Entrepreneurial de Paços de Ferreira (AEPF), which organized the event, in statements to the Lusa agency.
After around 5,000 visitors received in the last edition, the hope this year is to surpass this number and arrive at the Carlos Lopes Pavilion, “for Filipa Belo advanced”.
According to the official, the bet this year involves a diversified program focused on market trends, such as sustainability: problematic”, he said.
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Thus, in addition to the furniture and decoration exhibition, guests will also have the opportunity to attend, at 6:00 pm on Thursday, a “talk” with the architect Teresa Pires Gonçalves (from the Decôme Lisbon studio) under the theme “Healthy Home – Sustainable Interiors”.
In an interview with Lusa, an executive director of the AEPF said that the furniture sector “surprised a lot, on the positive side”, by “not reflecting in such a crude way” the impact of the pandemic.
“Unlike a big pandemic”, he said that the data from the first quarter of 2021 were expected, and it ended up not reflecting such a brutal way, already for a 4% increase in exports compared to the same period of 2019, pre-pandemic, to close to 500 million euros.
Even so, the impact of the pandemic was felt in the sector, whose sales abroad recovered from 2,500 million euros in 2019 to 1,500 million euros in 2020 and 1,700 million euros in 2021.
Currently, Filipa Belo “the constraints at the level of the main factors and the “most important influencers” of the sector, since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.
“Some raw materials came from that area as a specific wooden board, which came from Russia, and they have their receipt coming, because they don’t know where they will receive the raw materials”, description.
On the other hand, he said, the strong and constant rise in the price made on the one hand from two cousins is conditioning the realization of budgets: “A budget today maybe already or months is not the same as in two months from now”, he noted. .
With around 90% of production destined for foreign markets, the Portuguese maintained a positive balance of trade, at 21.55% of this value, with a protection rate of euros destined for foreign markets, first of 180%.
France continues to be the biggest customer for furniture made in Portugal, absorbing around 35% of exports, followed by Spain and the United States of America (which together account for around 30%), the United Kingdom (19%) and Germany (10%).
The sector is made up of around 4,000 companies employing 34,000 workers and will be present in 160 international markets.