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

* Covers Global, European, Asia-Pacific & 5 individual country markets

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

In 2003, the global medium & heavy trucks market reached a value of $166.95 billion.

In 2003, approximately 1.48 million medium & heavy trucks were sold globally.

The leading companies within the global medium and heavy trucks market are Isuzu, DaimlerChrysler, Scania, Iveco, Volvo and Navistar International Corporation.

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Definition

The market for medium and heavy trucks consists of the sales of all new trucks over 6.0 tonnes Gross Vehicle Weight (6.35 tonnes in the US). The market value is assessed at manufacturer's list price, and the market volume is given in terms of units sold. Any currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2003 annual average exchange rates.

For the purposes of this report, Europe is comprised of Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and the Ukraine.

Asia-Pacific comprises China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam, Australia and New Zealand.

The global market is deemed to be US, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Turkey, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia and South Africa.