Domestic Kitchen and Bathroom Worktops Market Report – UK 2020-2024

The 6th edition of the Domestic Kitchen and Bathroom Worktops Market Report – UK 2020-2024 incorporates original research and provides a comprehensive review of this changing market, including market sizes across the major product areas featured, product mix, supplier performance and share, supply chain structures and other factors influencing the development of the market. It also includes an assessment of the effects that Covid-19 and our exit from the EU will have on this market in the short to medium term.

Key issues covered in the report:

• Laminates; high pressure laminates, compact laminates.
• Solid surfacing, composites.
• Natural and engineered stone; granite, quartz.
• Solid wood.
• Others, e.g. glass, stainless steel, porcelain, concrete etc

Areas of particular interest:

• Market size from 2015-2019, short term prospects 2020-22 and medium-term forecasts to 2024.
• Key market drivers, including housebuilding, consumer characteristics, professional installation, changing role of the kitchen and bathroom, design trends, price competition.
• Mix of different types of worktop materials – product sector review, development of the material sectors and trends; drivers such as design trends, consumer awareness and knowledge etc.
• Review of supply and distribution structure for worktops – market mix by distributor types – builders’ and plumbers’ merchants, Home Improvement Multiples, specialist retail outlets, direct sales etc. Identification of fabricators and distributors.

Companies included are:

Howdens, Symphony, Wren Kitchens, Harvey Jones, Smallbone, Mark Wilkinson, Tom Howley, Ashley Ann, soak.com, B&Q, Magnet, IKEA, Wickes, Formica, Polyrey, Egger, Kronospan, Wilsonart, James Latham Group, Whitehall Fabrications, Summercove, Stone of London Ltd, DuPont, Luna Stone, Sheridan Fabrications, Homebase and more.

Key areas of insight include:

Market for Kitchen and Bathroom Worktops

• Overall Kitchen and Bathroom Worktops markets, market development, analysis of market size by value 2015-2019.
• Market size for kitchen worktops 2015-2019 and bathroom worktops 2015-2019. Factors influencing market development – growing influence of design/style changes, demographics, housebuilding, consumer confidence etc.
• Forecasts of market sizes for kitchen worktops, and bathroom worktops through to 2024. Key factors influencing future development, performance of the economy, housing market, consumer confidence. Effects of current crisis on future demand.
• Overall kitchen furniture, worktops and sinks market and overall bathroom furniture and worktops market for perspective.
• Housing Market – analysis of developments in new house building and house moving activity.
• Economic Influence – unstable global political and economic environment and the effect on consumer confidence and market growth.

Product and Material Trends

• Trends in Design/Materials in Worktops – key materials covered include laminates, solid surface, engineered and natural stone, solid wood, others such as glass, stainless steel etc.
• Share mix by material for kitchen worktops.
• Share mix by material for bathroom worktops.
• Key trends – colour/pattern trends in worktops, growth of non-laminate materials, such as solid surfaces, wood, granite, quartz, stainless steel, advantages/disadvantages, new product developments.
• Main features and benefits of the different worktop types

Supply and Distribution

• Analysis of Supply Chain Structure.
• Profiles of Leading Worktop Suppliers – market position, analysis of activities, financial information and products.
• Distribution Channel Shares – analysis of shares by value, trends/developments in shares, growth/declining sectors.
• Route to market assessment for kitchen worktops and for bathroom worktops.
• Key sectors assessed include – Furniture Multiples, Home Improvement Multiples, Builders and Plumbers’ Merchants, Direct Contract, Retail Specialists, Department Stores, Worktop specialists, Direct sales, Internet retailers.

Tables and Charts

This report contains 25 tables and charts.

There has been steady growth in the market in recent years, particularly in the 2015-16 period, reflecting the growing level of consumer confidence generally and higher levels of house building. The worktop market has probably grown fractionally faster than the overall kitchen and bathroom furniture markets, reflecting a shift to higher value worktops and the trend for larger worktop areas, incorporating, for example, island and peninsular units.
As far as kitchen worktops are concerned, the market generally follows a pattern similar to that for kitchen furniture.

The bathroom worktops market has followed a growth pattern similar to the one for bathroom furniture, mainly due to a lower level of separate worktop replacement in this sector, when compared with the kitchen sector.The value of the bathroom worktops market has grown, mainly because of the increasing popularity of bathroom furniture, but has also benefited to some extent from the use of more expensive materials, such as solid surface products with integrated basins, along with quartz and granite surfaces.

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