Visitors have been thronging the National Furniture Fair-2010, with sales posting a more than satisfactory volume in the first three days, the organisers said on Wednesday.
The six-day fair organised by the Bangladesh Furniture Industries Owners’ Association began at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city on Monday.
Different companies participating in the fair are offering discounts at a wide spectrum of range on their products and special gifts to attract buyers. The companies have showcased products of both usual and experimental designs at their stalls.
The visitors, mostly women, have been browsing the stalls and collecting product brochures to choose furniture, the organisers and visitors said.
‘I have come to the fair to choose a quality cot. Right now I am just roaming around,’ said Banani Akhter, a housewife of the city’s Shantinagar area, standing in the stall of Akhter Furniture.
Meher Afroz, another housewife from Gulshan who was looking round the Otobi furniture, said the atmosphere of the fair and the quality of goods really amazed her. She said she had no idea that locally manufactured furniture could be so attractive.
‘We have put all our new products on display to familiarise buyers to them. People have been visiting our stall and making queries about them,’ said Brothers Furniture head of marketing and sales AKM Munir Hossain.
‘We are offering a 5 per cent discount on all our products and giving every buyer a lottery coupon for winning a Dhaka-Kathmandu-Dhaka air ticket,’ he said.
Athena’s sales and marketing executive Nayan Kumar Das said, ‘A few of the visitors are buying goods, mostly the home items.’ Athena’s is offering 10 to 30 per cent discount on its
products.
Seventy-eight furniture manufacturing houses have showcased their products in 170 stalls. The fair will remain open to public from 9:00am to 9:00pm every day until Saturday
