The wood, paper and furniture industry is one of the key sectors of the Polish economy, its combined gross value added stood at PLN 37.57bn in 2016, which represented 2% of the GDP. The gross output of the three sub-sectors stood for around 6.5% of the country’s GDP in 2016. In the same year, it also accounted for 12.5% of employment in manufacturing and 2.5% of total employment in the Polish economy. The industry, supplied with wood by the forestry and logging sector, itself has three subsectors, which we shall refer to as “wood & wood products” (see p.9 for a more detailed definition), “paper & paper products”, and “furniture production”. Their joint share in Poland's total exports in 2017 was 10.8% in 2017. The most important subsector in terms of exports is furniture: Poland had a 5% share in global furniture exports in 2016 (and is the world's sixth-biggest furniture maker). Poland is also the EU’s seventh-biggest paper producer.

01 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 

02 SECTOR FORECAST 

03 SECTOR IN FOCUS 

04 COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE 

05 COMPANIES IN FOCUS

06 REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT

07 WOOD & WOOD PRODUCTS 

08 PAPER & PAPER PRODUCTS 

09 FURNITURE 

10 RETAIL CHANNELS