Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
BEIJING, June 12 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Himfr.com, one of China's leading
B2B search platforms with more than 30 B2B industry websites to its name,
predicts the future of China's furniture industry.
Himfr predicts that China's furniture industry in the next five or ten
years will inevitably experience a wide range, large-scale industry
consolidation; a large number of small and medium enterprises will be
eliminated; and a small number of excellent companies will rely on brand,
quality, service and size to stand out in the industry. In the future, the
Chinese furniture industry will move toward refinement, scale and brand for
development.
As living standards improve, people pay more attention to furniture.
Throughout the past 10 years, the Chinese furniture industry has experienced
rapid development. During this period, the furniture industry development was
mainly dominated by volume expansion with the international standards, and now
furniture products have reached point of successfully satisfying people's
needs and international markets.
In the next 5 to 10 years, the Chinese furniture industry will enter a
second period of rapid development. Modern technological advances promote the
growing scale of furniture production, costs and prices, dramatically and
negatively affecting the existing competition; automated production lines will
increase the fixed assets, which is bound to reduce labor costs and increase
productivity, and large-scale production and standardization of production
will become possible. In the new stage of industrial development, competitors
in the furniture industry will need to upgrade.
China's furniture industry is still based on small and medium enterprises
as the mainstay producers. The industry concentration is very low, there is
not yet an industry player that holds more than 1% of the market share. While
there are still few large-scale furniture enterprises in China, those with
poor management will be phased out of the market.
As economic development and quality of life improve, consumers will make
furniture decisions based on health, environmental protection, and brand.