The rate of furniture production during February 2025 registered a monthly uptick, while the value in domestic goods was up on the previous month and also against last year.

According to the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, the rate of furniture production rose by 3.9% compared to January, while also up 2% on February last year.

Production output grew by 1.5% in February 2025, following a fall of 0.5% in January 2025 (revised up from a 0.9% fall in our previous publication), and grew by 0.7% in the three months to February 2025, with manufacturing output driving the monthly and three-month growths.

Meanwhile, the value of the manufacture of furniture for February resulted at £861.9m, up 15.9% from £743.2m in January. Against the same period last year, the value increased 0.3% from £859.2m.

As for the value of furniture manufacturer exports, this increased 13.9% to £37.5m for the month from £32.9m. Against last year, exports value fell 23.1% from £48.8m.

The value of domestic furniture manufacture increased 16% to £824.4m from £710.3m in the month, while up 1.7% from £810.4m last year.

Monthly real gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have grown by 0.5% in February 2025, with growths in all main sectors, following January 2025 which showed no growth.

Commenting on the GDP figures for February, ONS Director of Economic Statistics Liz McKeown said: “The economy grew strongly in February with widespread growth across both services and manufacturing industries.

“Within services, computer programming, telecoms and car dealerships all had strong months, while in manufacturing, electronics and pharmaceuticals led the way and car manufacturing also picked up after its recent poor performance.

“Across the last three months as a whole, the economy also grew strongly with broad-based growth across services industries.”