This report assessed the position of the Swedish furniture industry in the EU context and benchmarked its performance with the ones of other leading manufacturing countries. This research was based on the analysis of CSIL in-house furniture sector information, official statistical databases as Eurostat, National statistical institutes, United Nations, World Bank, and IMF, and CSIL database of companies’ information. The position of the Swedish furniture industry was benchmarked with respect to a set of variables of interest including competitiveness indicators such as value-added creation, the role of intangible investments (design), market performances, product innovation, etc.