…say firm providing customers with a total bouquet of premium solutions
The furniture subsidiary of Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, the Abuja Furniture Production (AFP), has received commendations for its superbly evolving designs, development and productive competence and reliability.
The commendations were given at the just concluded 2023 Lagos Design Week in Lekki at the weekend.
The Chairman, Board of Directors of Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, Mr. Mutiu Sunmonu, said the company’s ever expanding clientele and happy customers are continuing to experience its deliveries as a total and one-stop shop for top-end quality with regard to durable products and reliable after-sales services.
“I must say that AFP has been growing qualitatively stronger and progressively more innovative over the past decade. The clear difference between AFP products and service offerings in the market relative to others is, to be modest, like day and night with AFP as the undisputed leader of the furniture sector frontlines. I am very pleased, indeed, with AFP’s design and manufacturing quality which is driven by our group’s strong ideology of sustainability across board,” Sunmonu said.
“Today, I have come come to see for myself. The furniture are unique. The material selection are timeless. I am impressed by them all including the wood and stone products.
“With AFP’s increasingly innovative and qualitative product and service offerings, customers in the furnishing and interior decor sector have continued to experience the Julius Berger brand as a total and most reliable bouquet of premium solutions,” he said.
At the exhibition, AFP had a wide range of furniture products on display that included inviting and soothing sitting rooms and bedroom spaces, an iconic and excellently wooded office space design, a bespoke and fitted kitchen with an exquisite island, electronically adjustable office and private study desks and health-centric ergonomic chairs, etc.
JULIUS BERGER AFP DESIGN WEEK LAGOS EXHIBITION PICTURES IN PDF
A major stakeholder in the furniture production sector in Lagos, Akinbo Akin-Olugbade, said AFP has grown progressively into a poster subsidiary of the Julius Berger Group’s signature of corporate and operational excellence with its unique and reliable supply of quality furniture products.
“Last year, the subsidiary was already the best. It stood out in products design. This year, it has come out far better,” said Akin-Olugbade, who is also a regular visitor to AFP stands at various exhibitions.
He said the furniture range on display at the AFP stand at the Design Week Lagos Exhibition 2023 is “simply amazing and extraordinary“.
“To me, the verdict here is very simple…when it comes to construction and building, Julius Berger is still the standard; and when it comes to interiors, the Julius Berger-AFP is the standard,” he said.
The Chief Executive of TARD Engineering Limited, Adeniyi Oduola, another visitor to the AFP stand, described the furniture pieces on display as topnotch.
JULIUS BERGER AFP DESIGN WEEK LAGOS EXHIBITION PICTURES IN PDF
“I am totally amazed by the finishing. Yes, because you cannot have it all in one exhibition, what I have seen here has made me decide to visit AFP’s Abuja showroom to see more options and then book for supplies,” Oduola said.
“For many decades previously, we only knew Julius Berger for its excellent and durable construction of roads, bridges, airports, railways, dams and other engineering infrastructure. It is very exciting to now know and indeed see that the ever qualitative Julius Berger is also into this business of good furniture production and ancillary services,” he said.
Other visitors to the stand, including Dr (Mrs) Elizabeth Ajibola of Ijare Isin Kingdom of Kwara State, a wood technologist, Engr Benson Okoh, among others each had a good word to say about AFP.
The General Manager of AFP, Oliver Cohnen, speaking in a brief interview, said the company has continued to ensure that sustainability is key to its furniture design, production and finishing, adding that the deliberate policy makes the difference between its products and the competition.
“AFP designs and produces quality furniture that balances function with aesthetics to create spaces that connect, invite and delight,” Cohnen said.
“We assess designs to understand what procurement sources, materials and methods of production are best to create a viable balance between environmental sustainability and customer satisfaction. For every furniture piece we produce and offer to the market, sustainability is a mandatory aspect of the design and production phase at AFP,” he said.
