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The garden furniture market made up 67% of the £549,000,000 industry of garden furniture, barbeque and accessories, according to a report from AMA Research. Worth around £366,000,000 (even in this country of diabolic weather), the garden furniture industry continues to boom and, if predictions are correct, it’s going to keep expanding for at least the next 5 years! Let’s hope the weather holds up…

With the market’s value expected to reach a around £700,000,000 by 2015, it is no wonder people are starting to question why exactly the world of patio furnishings continues to grow in a time of economic recession. One potential contributing factor for this increased interest becomes apparent when we consider the history of the market; the last boom in the garden furniture market was about a decade ago – just long ago enough to mean this target audience might be considering replacing their aging furnishings! Combined with the recent surge in the popularity of al fresco dining and the financial advantages to spending weekends at in the garden with a barbeque – it suddenly doesn’t seem so strange that the market is back on the rise!

The impact the boom will have on consumers is hard to tell; although one would assume prices would drop, there has been a definite increase in the demand for high-quality garden furniture over the cheaper kind. This is possibly because people consider it a more long-term investment now holidays are getting harder to afford. So we could see a decrease in the amount of cheap garden furniture available and a rise in high quality and bespoke furnishings…which sounds good to me!