Kingston Furniture eyes regional and international market
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Local furniture manufacturer Kingston Furniture has put plans in place to export both regionally and internationally in the near future.
Senator Aubyn Hill, minister of industry, investment and commerce, has expressed support for the furniture manufacturing company as Kingston Furniture seeks to distribute its products across regional and international markets.
“I’m excited to see where this can go, and I’m looking forward to supporting them as much as we can to build their business right here in Jamaica,” he said during a tour of the facility on Ashenhiem Road in Kingston on September 6.
The company has been in operation for two years and currently specialises in office, residential and hospitality furniture as well as several varieties of doors.
Hill said the Jamaica Special Economic Zone Authority (JSEZA) has been in dialogue with Kingston Furniture and “we will be making sure that those arrangements [for export] have been properly put in place”.
He emphasised that local manufacturing companies should target larger markets, including the diaspora.
“Jamaica is very well located. We’re right in the heart of Panama, North America and the Caribbean, but we also have the diaspora market,” Hill highlighted.
Meanwhile, Tony Breslin, chief executive officer of Kingston Furniture, said the company remains ‘unique’ because of its state-of-the-art machinery.
“The state-of-the-art machinery that we’ve brought in permits us to do very large volume of production,” he pointed out.
“But we also have machinery that allows us to do ‘old-road craftsmanship,’ wood spinning and that type of stuff. We have the ability to work in several different mediums with solid woods, New Particle Formation (NPF) particle boards, laminates and so on,” he added.
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