Datamonitor's Logistics: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the logistics 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 and segmentation
* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies
* Covers Global, European, Asia-Pacific & 11 individual country markets
* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry
Highlights
Despite upheavals during 2005, the global logistics market has performed well in recent years.
The global logistics market's value is almost equally divided between the three global regions of the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
2005 was a turbulent year for the global logistics market, with extensive consolidation and M&A activity causing many smaller players to be eliminated, either by being forced to close or because they were subsumed by larger companies.
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Definition
The logistics market is composed of all expenditure from the transportation, distribution and management of the retail, consumer electronics, automotive, hi-tech and pharmaceutical sectors.
This total expenditure includes costs incurred in-house as well as those, which are outsourced to an external party. Any currency conversions used in this report have been calculated using constant 2005 annual average exchange rates.
For the purpose of this report Europe consists of the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway. Asia-Pacific consists of Japan, China, Australia, India, South Korea, and Taiwan. Americas consists of Canada and the US. The global market is comprised of Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Americas.