NAICS 33712Industry · 5-digitregional market

Household and institutional furniture manufacturing

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing furniture designed for use in households, and institutions such as schools, churches, restaurants and other public buildings. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA: 1,283
Under 10 employeesA: 68%
Establishments · USA: 4,069
Employment · USA: 127,698
Payroll · USA: $5.7B

Size and shape

How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.

Canadian establishments by number of employeesA

1–459046%

5–928722%

10–1918715%

20–4912410%

50–99574%

100–199252%

200–499111%

500+20%

Of 1,283 Canadian establishments with employees, 68% have fewer than ten — mostly small operators.

Where they areA

Quebec60247%

Ontario42733%

British Columbia13511%

Alberta595%

Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.

How many new establishments are still tradingA

Manufacturing, US · opened 2020

86.2%

1 year

70.8%

3 years

58.4%

5 years

45.3%

10 years

opened 2015

Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 337, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.

regional competitionmedium capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 337 Furniture and related product manufacturing

Custom cabinetry and millwork stay local because the product is built to a room. Commodity furniture lost to imports long ago.

Who sets the price: Imports on commodity furniture; the client on custom work.
The software it runs on: Cabinet design-to-manufacture, nesting and job costing.

Market screens and studies

Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.

Screened one level up. Nothing is filed at this exact code; the screen for 3371 Household and institutional furniture and kitchen cabinet manufacturing covers it.

Operating businessScreenedfiled at 3371

Stock Cabinet & Household Furniture PlantExecution decides

binding constraint: defensibility

The pre-screen called this group a candidate, and at the small end it is: 2,205 of 3,236 Canadian establishments have fewer than ten people. That end — the shop that builds to a room and lives on builder relationships — is already screened as Custom Cabinet & Millwork Shop (337), cut on distribution, and this record does not repeat it. What this record tests is the step up that a successful shop is tempted to take: a plant making stock or semi-custom cabinets, or household furniture, in volume for dealers, home centres and online retailers. The two halves fail differently, and both anchors are from filings. In cabinets, the volume tier is consolidating around scale. MasterBrand, the largest manufacturer of residential cabinets in North America, reported 2025 net sales of $2.7B, up 1.3% only because of an acquisition and pricing against a mid-single-digit market decline; net income fell to $26.7M from $125.9M and adjusted EBITDA margin to 10.9% from 13.5% — and its answer was a pending merger with American Woodmark, another of the largest [A]. In furniture, the volume tier is imported. Dorel Home, the Montreal-based ready-to-assemble furniture business, saw revenue fall 40.1% to US$309.4M in 2025 with an operating loss of US$93.9M, and exited its manufacturing and warehousing sites in Cornwall, Ontario and Montréal [A]. Nothing protects a mid-sized volume plant: it gives up the custom shop's one defence — the product is built to a site and cannot be imported — without reaching the purchasing scale and dealer coverage of a consolidator. Institutional furniture (337127), sold on specification to schools and healthcare, may behave differently and was not examined; nor was upholstery, where several Canadian makers persist.

NAICS 33715 vendors named11 sourced figuresOpen →

Filed above — wider than this industry

Operating businessScreenedfiled at 337 Furniture and related product manufacturing

Custom Cabinet & Millwork ShopExecution decides

binding constraint: distribution

The work arrives through builders and designers who already have a shop they trust, and winning that relationship means beating an incumbent on a bid where the customer cannot judge quality in advance. Meanwhile imported flat-pack and semi-custom lines have taken the volume tier that would have kept a shop's CNC busy between jobs. Skilled installers are the binding constraint, not capacity.

NAICS 3375 vendors named10 sourced figuresOpen →

Software serving this industry

The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.

No vertical software market has been recorded along this branch. What the subsector typically runs on: Cabinet design-to-manufacture, nesting and job costing.

Catalogued categories — named, not analysed

Discrete manufacturing ERP SaaS 31-33

And what every business buys · 25 generic categories

Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.

Who works here

The occupations employed in Manufacturing, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.

Concentrated in this sectorA

Aircraft assemblers and aircraft assembly inspectors One industry 91.3%

Supervisors, assembly and fabrication One industry 88.3%

Machine operators and related workers in pulp and paper production and wood processing and manufacturing One industry 86.1%

Managers in manufacturing and utilities One industry 84.4%

Machine operators and related workers in chemical, plastic and rubber processing One industry 82.7%

Mechanical, electrical and electronics assemblers and inspectors One industry 82.3%

Machine operators and related workers in food, beverage and associated products processing One industry 79.1%

Machine operators and related workers in mineral and metal products processing and manufacturing One industry 77.7%

Furniture, wood, plastic and other products assemblers, finishers and inspectors One industry 73.9%

Machine operators and related workers in textile, fabric, fur and leather products processing and manufacturing One industry 70.8%

These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.

And the jobs every business has

Other technical trades Across the economy 20%

Technical occupations in electronics and electrical engineering Across the economy 16.3%

Shoe repairers, shoemakers and upholsterers Across the economy 15.2%

Administrative and financial supervisors Across the economy 11.6%

Technical inspectors and regulatory officers Across the economy 10.7%

Administrative services managers Across the economy 9.6%

Legislative and senior managers Across the economy 9.2%

Building maintenance installers, servicers and repairers Across the economy 8.3%

Financial, insurance and related administrative support workers Across the economy 7.7%

Technical occupations in computer and information systems Across the economy 4.8%

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. In a small establishment several of these are usually one person, or an outside provider.

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Inside this industry

4 rows sit directly beneath 33712. Each has a base report of its own.

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
337121	Upholstered household furniture manufacturing	141	screened at 3371
337123	Other wood household furniture manufacturing	838	screened at 3371
337126	Household furniture (except wood and upholstered) manufacturing	138	screened at 3371
337127	Institutional furniture manufacturing	166	screened at 3371

Alongside it, under 3371 Household and institutional furniture and kitchen cabinet manufacturing

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
33711	Wood kitchen cabinet and counter top manufacturing	1,953	screened at 3371