NAICS 337215Canadian industry · 6-digitregional market

Showcase, partition, shelving and locker manufacturing

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing fixtures for office, store and similar applications. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA: 222
Under 10 employeesA: 36%
Establishments · USA: 823
Employment · USA: 30,054
Payroll · USA: $1.7B

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

1–43918%

5–94018%

10–194520%

20–494721%

50–992913%

100–199188%

200–49931%

500+10%

Of 222 Canadian establishments with employees, 36% have fewer than ten — weighted toward mid-sized establishments.

Where they areA

Ontario12255%

Quebec6730%

British Columbia167%

Alberta73%

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 3372 Office furniture (including fixtures) manufacturing covers it.

Operating businessScreenedfiled at 3372

Contract Office Furniture & Store Fixture PlantOne thing must be true

binding constraint: distribution

This is one of the few corners of furniture that did not go offshore. Canadian office furniture and fixture plants booked $6.33B of revenue in 2024, up from $3.95B in 2013 [A], and the group is not a cottage trade: 65 of its 607 establishments employ a hundred or more, and the average US plant carries 29. Desks, seating systems and store fixtures are bulky, specified to a floor plan and delivered to a deadline, which keeps production on the continent. The cut is who controls the specification. Contract furniture is not sold to the person who sits in it; it is written into a project by a designer and fulfilled by a dealer aligned to a manufacturer's line, and store fixtures are bought by a chain's construction department on a roll-out programme. An entrant plant has neither the dealer nor the programme. The incumbents, meanwhile, are consolidating to defend exactly that channel: HNI closed its purchase of Steelcase in December 2025, about $2.2B, priced at roughly 5.8x trailing EBITDA once $120M of run-rate synergies are counted [A], forming a $5.8B seller on about $745M of pro forma EBITDA. The price is the argument: 5.8x is not what a buyer pays for factories it wants, and it is that low only because the synergies are counted before they are earned. What the money bought was two overlapping dealer networks that can be run as one — the channel, not the plants. An entrant buys plant. The nearby Custom Cabinet & Millwork Shop record cuts on builder relationships; this one cuts on the aligned dealer, which is harder to borrow.

NAICS 33726 vendors named12 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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Alongside this industry

This is the most specific level NAICS defines. The other industries under 33721 are its nearest neighbours.

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
337213	Wood office furniture, including custom architectural woodwork, manufacturing	289	screened at 3372
337214	Office furniture (except wood) manufacturing	96	screened at 3372