After seeing sales plummet in 2009, office and contract furniture manufacturers saw growth in 2010 and expect a double-digit gain in 2011.

The office and contract furniture segment of the industry may be the most closely measured. And one close observer of that segment is optimistic about 2011.“After a disastrous 2009, the industry began a modest recovery in late spring of 2010 but the improvements are led by gains in the health care and higher education markets,” Mike Dunlap of Michael A. Dunlap & Associates, LLC told CabinetMakerFDM recently.

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