Datamonitor's Construction & Farm Machinery: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the construction & farm machinery 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 & 5 individual country markets

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

An interesting trend emerging in the construction and farm machinery and heavy trucks sector, is the increasing popularity of remanufacturing.

The rising price of crude oil, which peaked in 2004, has presented a major cost issue to companies operating within the US construction & farm machinery market, increasing costs in terms of raw materials.

Another key issue, which will have long-term implications within the construction and farm machinery market, is the push for tighter emission controls specifically for diesel engines.

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Definition

The global construction and farm machinery market is deemed to be the revenue accrued by manufacturers of rolling machinery, earth-moving and construction equipment and heavy farm machinery. Any currency conversions used in this report have been calculated using constant 2004 annual average exchange rates.

For the purposes of this report Europe consists of Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

Asia-Pacific consists of Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

The global value is composed of Europe, Asia-Pacific, the US, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and South Africa.