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Please stop blaming India if you don't have enough trees, go outside take a shovel and plant some trees.
Pakistan can earn huge foreign exchange from furniture export’
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Please stop blaming India if you don't have enough trees, go outside take a shovel and plant some trees.
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Instead of blame game start planting and see the results for yourself. India has increased the forest cover by 5000 sq kms over past decade.
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We must do it in parallel, but for plywood only scrap wood is required.
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Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) Regional Chairman and Vice-President Mian Rehman Aziz Chan on Friday said that the local furniture sector attached great importance to the national economy and could make a substantial contribution of billions of dollars export annually if the government properly patronized it on priority for boosting export of Pak-handmade furniture.
Talking to a delegation of Pakistan Furniture Council (PFC) headed by its Chief Executive Mian Kashif Ashfaq here, Mian Rehman Aziz Chan appreciated the PFC for holding successful series of Interiors Pakistan exhibitions in Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore.
He urged the government to establish greater liaison with this sector to fully understand the market conditions and requirements of the industry needs to protect, develop and promote. He said the government should also provide more visible support to furniture business in terms of simple and easily obtainable grants for exhibiting and travelling to trade shows and promoting Pak export as a success globally.
He suggested that a programme for developing and promoting the furniture sector both in rural and urban areas could be feasible, and also stressed upon urgent need for implementing modern techniques which not only enhance productivity, develop skills of labourers and meet requirements of local and global markets.
PFC Chief Executive Mian Kashif Ashfaq, on this occasion, apprising him of successful exhibitions of Interiors Pakistan said more than 100 leading companies and interior designers displayed their products in 6th mega exhibition held at Expo Centre here recently while as many as 250,000 people visited the exhibition.
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BEAT IKEA? THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING I WOULD LIKE TO SEE.
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Mr.Troll, please stop showing your level of intelligence.
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Pakistan will beat Ikea? ur so deluded even Prophet M cant help u. BTW Ikea is Swedish where u buy ur early warnings from.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA
KEA (/aɪˈkiːə/; Swedish: [ɪ²keːa][7]) is a Swedish multinational group of companies that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture (such as beds, chairs and desks), appliances and home accessories. As of January 2008, it is the world's largest furniture retailer.[8]Founded in Sweden in 1943 by then-17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad, who was listed as one of the world's richest people in 2013,[9] the company's name is an acronym that consists of the initials of Ingvar Kamprad, Elmtaryd (the farm where he grew up), and Agunnaryd (his hometown in Småland, southern Sweden).[10] The company is known for its modern architectural designs for various types of appliances and furniture, and its interior design work is often associated with an eco-friendly simplicity.[11] In addition, the firm is known for its attention to cost control, operational details, and continuous product development, corporate attributes that allowed IKEA to lower its prices by an average of two to three percent over the decade to 2010 during a period of global expansion. The IKEA group has a complex corporate structure, the purpose or one of the purposes of which may be to avoid tax,[12] and is controlled by several foundations based in the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein.[13]
As of December 2016, IKEA owns and operates 392 stores in 48 countries.[14] In fiscal year 2016, €36.4 billion worth of goods were sold, a total that represented a 7.6 percent increase over 2015.[15] The IKEA website contains about 12,000 products and is the closest representation of the entire IKEA range. There were over 2.1 billion visitors to IKEA's websites in the year from September 2015 to August 2016.[16] The company is responsible for approximately 1% of world commercial-product wood consumption, making it one of the largest users of wood in the retail sector.[17]
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Pakistan can earn billions of dollars from furniture export
LAHORE: Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) Regional Chairman and Vice-President Mazoorul Haq Malik on Tuesday said that Pakistan could earn billions of dollars annually from furniture export.
Talking to a delegation of Pakistan Furniture Council (PFC) headed by its Chief Executive Mian Kashif Ashfaq here, Malik said that local furniture sector attached great importance to the national economy and could make a substantial contribution of billions of dollars export annually, if the government properly patronized it on priority for boosting export of Pak-handmade furniture.
He stressed the need for establishing greater liaison with this sector to fully understand the market conditions and requirements of
the industry needs to protect, develop and promote.
He said the government should also provide more visible support to furniture business in terms of simple and easily obtainable grants for exhibiting and travelling to trade shows and promoting Pak export as a success globally.
He suggested that a programme for developing and promoting the furniture sector both in rural and urban areas could be feasible,
and also stressed the urgent need for implementing modern techniques which not only enhance productivity, develop skills of labourers and meet requirements of local and global markets.
PFC Chief Executive Mian Kashif Ashfaq, on this occasion, apprised him of holding 7 consecutive successful mega exhibitions
of Interiors Pakistan across the country in which over 100 leading companies and interior designers displayed their products while
half million people visited the exhibitions.
He said that another 3-day mega exhibition is going to take place from July 7 at Expo Centre Karachi where 60 foreign and local exhibitors have so far confirmed their participation and hoped that it would attract good number of visitor and investors.
Malik appreciated the PFC for holding successful series of Interiors Pakistan exhibitions in Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore.
LAHORE: Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) Regional Chairman and Vice-President Mazoorul Haq Malik on Tuesday said that Pakistan could earn billions of dollars annually from furniture export.
Talking to a delegation of Pakistan Furniture Council (PFC) headed by its Chief Executive Mian Kashif Ashfaq here, Malik said that local furniture sector attached great importance to the national economy and could make a substantial contribution of billions of dollars export annually, if the government properly patronized it on priority for boosting export of Pak-handmade furniture.
He stressed the need for establishing greater liaison with this sector to fully understand the market conditions and requirements of
the industry needs to protect, develop and promote.
He said the government should also provide more visible support to furniture business in terms of simple and easily obtainable grants for exhibiting and travelling to trade shows and promoting Pak export as a success globally.
He suggested that a programme for developing and promoting the furniture sector both in rural and urban areas could be feasible,
and also stressed the urgent need for implementing modern techniques which not only enhance productivity, develop skills of labourers and meet requirements of local and global markets.
PFC Chief Executive Mian Kashif Ashfaq, on this occasion, apprised him of holding 7 consecutive successful mega exhibitions
of Interiors Pakistan across the country in which over 100 leading companies and interior designers displayed their products while
half million people visited the exhibitions.
He said that another 3-day mega exhibition is going to take place from July 7 at Expo Centre Karachi where 60 foreign and local exhibitors have so far confirmed their participation and hoped that it would attract good number of visitor and investors.
Malik appreciated the PFC for holding successful series of Interiors Pakistan exhibitions in Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore.
Excuse me:
Pakistan had more water per captia than India. There is nothing in the practice of Pakistani politics/ culture/religion that encourages the protection of the environment
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Here are my excerpts about the topic from a different thread I started here:https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/suggestions-to-stimulate-pakistans-export-based-industries.489333/
Please read the above link for more general details. However here are some immediately relevant excerpts.
"I believe it is extremely important to give the right skills to large number of workers so they understand the style of products appreciated in each of the various foreign countries. Gujrat city, for example, is famous for its unique furniture in our country. Tevta could hire experienced staff that could train already expert furniture artisans in understanding the types, styles and other aesthetic aspects of furniture appreciated in more developed countries of the world so they become innovative and experts in producing furniture that could be exported to particular target countries(these artisans do not need advanced degrees to master this art). Similar efforts could be made to train staff in various textile and other exports goods categories where we already have a strong industrial infrastructure. There are various colleges that train students in textile design but it would be more productive if they could hire staff that would be expert in textile design trends in various countries and could train their students in innovative textile design and related aesthetic aspects so that they design textile products that would be appreciated by the people of particular country. I believe similar effort could be made by other training schools and bodies related to other trades where we have a meaningful export activity."
Thinking a bit more, I realized that a proper and systematic design of products conforming to foreign/local taste and style and what is in vogue there and related export promotion effort would usually/ideally require a clearer division of roles and associated skills. Our vocational schools like Tevta could, for example, train expert artisans of enterprising cities in manufacturing of foreign style furniture giving them right technical skills required to prepare the appropriate foreign style furniture while there would be other artists and experts who would actually design and compose the themes and other elaborate furniture details conforming to foreign/local styles in various countries. I believe There is great opportunity for art and related design colleges to hire expert professors familiar ..with foreign arts and culture and aware of changing foreign trends in their area of interest who would later train bright students with artistic aptitude and give them right skills to be able to prepare great artistic products in furniture, textiles and so many other product categories. This is the category of students/professionals who would need to actually do all the design work themselves. Then there could be a third category of students/professionals who would have appropriate analytical skills in various arts and related product design and they would analyze the developments and trends in foreign countries for certain products using various print and internet media, trade fairs and other exchange of ideas with peers and they would help prepare the company strategy for new products, and product changes required for marketing in certain countries while helping the business strategy evolve with evolving fashion trends in the existing product markets. These analytical aptitude professionals would work with both company business strategy development experts and artists and would guide the artists about how to change the theme and design details of the products and would do all the research that could simply be explained to artists in developing new innovative designs suitable for evolving trends in foreign/local markets. At least, they would do most of the initial ground work that would make it easier for the artists to understand the trends, do more involved research creatively projecting the ideas into future themes and later help the artists prepare new innovative and artistic products. Actual marketing in foreign countries could later be done by another group of experts who would have been trained with knowledge and skills about business promotion in foreign countries and who would introduce their businesses to prospective foreign customers and have acquired business promotion and relationship management skills. So running a successful export business would usually be a multidisciplinary effort that would involve skilled technicians and workers, brilliant artists, company strategists, foreign fashion and related trends analysts, and foreign marketing experts. I would also want to add some other industrial technology experts who would, from time to time, guide on most appropriate and cost-effective cutting edge industrial technologies(in line with the future company strategy) that might have to be acquired to update the industrial processes according to changing design and foreign customer needs and be able to easily compete with other businesses from different countries.
I do think that textile bodies like APTMA should work out all relevant details and make some plans to introduce such comprehensive export promotion and management skills to their member industries and businesses. Though exporters of Sialkot are very successful entrepreneurs, some systematic and analytical procedures along the lines of previous paragraph could also greatly help them after they have adjusted the ideas to make the ideas relevant to their particular line of business.
I think there are strong opportunities for highly educated, talented, and hardworking professionals in various export related trades to found successful consultancies that would help and advise other export oriented businesses so as to make them aware of changing trends in the international trade markets, help them in strategic decision making process and provide all related technical and other knowledge so that export businesses could easily make all changes required to succeed in foreign markets.
I think there is also great opportunity for local management consultancy firms to promote export business process management and related export business promotion if they can successfully master all the relevant details that are needed to make export businesses successful. In Pakistan, there is enormous opportunity in so many export product categories where management consultancy firms can guide after doing all the required basic groundwork. This is not an area where management consultancy firms have been traditionally active but I believe there is far more opportunity for enterprising management consultants in these new areas if they can actually master the relevant details and successfully help promote the exports as compared to consultancy activity they have traditionally been doing in our country. Of course, there is no free lunch and business consultants would have to work very hard to work out every detail in how to acquire and later transfer knowledge regarding export business process promotion and management for various countries and their fees/rewards should be tied to actual degree of turnaround in business revenue they have been able to generate due to their services and related advice.
Please read the above link for more general details. However here are some immediately relevant excerpts.
"I believe it is extremely important to give the right skills to large number of workers so they understand the style of products appreciated in each of the various foreign countries. Gujrat city, for example, is famous for its unique furniture in our country. Tevta could hire experienced staff that could train already expert furniture artisans in understanding the types, styles and other aesthetic aspects of furniture appreciated in more developed countries of the world so they become innovative and experts in producing furniture that could be exported to particular target countries(these artisans do not need advanced degrees to master this art). Similar efforts could be made to train staff in various textile and other exports goods categories where we already have a strong industrial infrastructure. There are various colleges that train students in textile design but it would be more productive if they could hire staff that would be expert in textile design trends in various countries and could train their students in innovative textile design and related aesthetic aspects so that they design textile products that would be appreciated by the people of particular country. I believe similar effort could be made by other training schools and bodies related to other trades where we have a meaningful export activity."
Thinking a bit more, I realized that a proper and systematic design of products conforming to foreign/local taste and style and what is in vogue there and related export promotion effort would usually/ideally require a clearer division of roles and associated skills. Our vocational schools like Tevta could, for example, train expert artisans of enterprising cities in manufacturing of foreign style furniture giving them right technical skills required to prepare the appropriate foreign style furniture while there would be other artists and experts who would actually design and compose the themes and other elaborate furniture details conforming to foreign/local styles in various countries. I believe There is great opportunity for art and related design colleges to hire expert professors familiar ..with foreign arts and culture and aware of changing foreign trends in their area of interest who would later train bright students with artistic aptitude and give them right skills to be able to prepare great artistic products in furniture, textiles and so many other product categories. This is the category of students/professionals who would need to actually do all the design work themselves. Then there could be a third category of students/professionals who would have appropriate analytical skills in various arts and related product design and they would analyze the developments and trends in foreign countries for certain products using various print and internet media, trade fairs and other exchange of ideas with peers and they would help prepare the company strategy for new products, and product changes required for marketing in certain countries while helping the business strategy evolve with evolving fashion trends in the existing product markets. These analytical aptitude professionals would work with both company business strategy development experts and artists and would guide the artists about how to change the theme and design details of the products and would do all the research that could simply be explained to artists in developing new innovative designs suitable for evolving trends in foreign/local markets. At least, they would do most of the initial ground work that would make it easier for the artists to understand the trends, do more involved research creatively projecting the ideas into future themes and later help the artists prepare new innovative and artistic products. Actual marketing in foreign countries could later be done by another group of experts who would have been trained with knowledge and skills about business promotion in foreign countries and who would introduce their businesses to prospective foreign customers and have acquired business promotion and relationship management skills. So running a successful export business would usually be a multidisciplinary effort that would involve skilled technicians and workers, brilliant artists, company strategists, foreign fashion and related trends analysts, and foreign marketing experts. I would also want to add some other industrial technology experts who would, from time to time, guide on most appropriate and cost-effective cutting edge industrial technologies(in line with the future company strategy) that might have to be acquired to update the industrial processes according to changing design and foreign customer needs and be able to easily compete with other businesses from different countries.
I do think that textile bodies like APTMA should work out all relevant details and make some plans to introduce such comprehensive export promotion and management skills to their member industries and businesses. Though exporters of Sialkot are very successful entrepreneurs, some systematic and analytical procedures along the lines of previous paragraph could also greatly help them after they have adjusted the ideas to make the ideas relevant to their particular line of business.
I think there are strong opportunities for highly educated, talented, and hardworking professionals in various export related trades to found successful consultancies that would help and advise other export oriented businesses so as to make them aware of changing trends in the international trade markets, help them in strategic decision making process and provide all related technical and other knowledge so that export businesses could easily make all changes required to succeed in foreign markets.
I think there is also great opportunity for local management consultancy firms to promote export business process management and related export business promotion if they can successfully master all the relevant details that are needed to make export businesses successful. In Pakistan, there is enormous opportunity in so many export product categories where management consultancy firms can guide after doing all the required basic groundwork. This is not an area where management consultancy firms have been traditionally active but I believe there is far more opportunity for enterprising management consultants in these new areas if they can actually master the relevant details and successfully help promote the exports as compared to consultancy activity they have traditionally been doing in our country. Of course, there is no free lunch and business consultants would have to work very hard to work out every detail in how to acquire and later transfer knowledge regarding export business process promotion and management for various countries and their fees/rewards should be tied to actual degree of turnaround in business revenue they have been able to generate due to their services and related advice.
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Lahore is a major manufacture for furniture and wood items making of all types. It can be a major export business for Pakistan.
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