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Limited recovery of European markets for agricultural machinery
27/07/2009
July 27, 2009
Another month, the data provided by the barometer of business of the CEMA (European Association of manufacturers of agricultural machinery, to which it belongs Ansemat), on the European markets of agricultural machinery still show variations. The business climate index (an average between the percentages of satisfaction respondents about their current business and future business volume) is located in a clear - 67.3 points (where the range varies between +/-100 points), in spite of improving three tenths.
According to Ansemat, the satisfaction about the current situation of the market includes 36% of the participants in the study even though, with noticeable differences regionally, especially in the case of the French and Italian markets. Downturns in the markets of automotive machinery and machinery of gardening, cope with the growth in the machinery aimed at the work of soil can be seen by groups of mechanization.
On market expectations, the future in the next six months seems to follow the same paths, with pessimism at the global level. Just 20% of the participants, hopes to keep your current business to six-month view, let alone grow, though, and this itself is interesting, however it is expected a positive movement in the Spanish market which increases their perspectives from the previous month.
The production plans begin to stagnate, but he is observed, in parallel, a reduction in the percentage of companies that reduce their productions in the next six months. Employment nearly matches the results of the previous months, delaying the dismissal of the staff as far as possible, maintaining fixed employment and increasing the available, also, to maintain temporary jobs.
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