Datamonitor's Medium & Heavy Trucks: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the medium & heavy trucks industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies

* Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis and scorecards

* Covers the Global, European and Asia-Pacific markets as well as individual chapters on 5 major markets (France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US).

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The global medium and heavy trucks market grew by 4% in 2007 to reach a value of $312.7 billion.

In 2012, the global medium and heavy trucks market is forecast to have a value of $530.4 billion, an increase of 69.6% since 2007.

The global medium and heavy trucks market grew by 4.1% in 2007 to reach a volume of 8.1 million units.

In 2012, the global medium and heavy trucks market is forecast to have a volume of 13.1 million units, an increase of 60.6% since 2007.

Commercial vehicle sales proved the most lucrative for the global medium and heavy trucks market in 2007, generating 56.4% of the market's revenue.

The Asia-Pacific market account for 47.5% of the global market's value.

In terms of volume, the leading player in the global medium and heavy trucks market is DaimlerChrysler accounting for 6.9% of the market.

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Market Definition

The market for medium and heavy trucks includes commercial vehicles (CVs), buses and coaches (BCs), heavy commercial vehicles (HCVs) and heavy buses and coaches (HBCs). CVs and BCs weigh 3.51 to 16 tonnes and include pick-ups, vans where they fall into this weight range. Sports utility vehicles and similar vehicles are not included. HCVs and HBCs weigh over 16 tonnes. The market value is calculated in terms of manufacturer selling price (MSP), and excludes all taxes and levies. Any currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2006 annual average exchange rates.

For the purpose of this report the Americas comprises Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the US.

Europe comprises Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

Asia-Pacific comprises Australia, China, Japan, India, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.

The global figure comprises the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe.