Business Barometer
The CEMA Business Barometer is a monthly survey sent to the European agricultural machinery industry and covering all major product categories. Industry players are asked to provide their view on the business mood based on current business sentiment and the expected turnover in the next 6 months. Each month CEMA publishes the main results from the survey.
April 2020: Shock in the European AG Machinery Industry
The general business climate index for the agricultural machinery industry in Europe has dropped as sharply and deeply as it has not since the financial crisis of 2008/09. The recent developments in the wake of COVID-19 have obviously also shocked the agricultural machinery industry.
While the evaluations of ...
March 2020: The developments have been overturning…
As the developments have been overturning almost every hour in course of the corona virus since the beginning of last week, the results of this survey can unfortunately already be considered as out of date.
An insight into the query system software shows that this time almost 90% of the survey participants a ...
February 2020: Recession potentially only relatively short term
The general business climate index for the agricultural machinery industry in Europe continues to be in the negative range, but has improved significantly compared to the previous month. Unlike the previous one, the current recession phase may only prove to be a comparatively shorter, temporary correction.
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January 2020: European Ag Machinery Industry in Recession
The general business climate index of the agricultural machinery industry in Europe continues to move in the recession zone. Overall, the future expectations have deteriorated again slightly, whereas the current business evaluations have improved to some extent. An improvement in the current business was reported in ...
December 2019 - Recession potentially only relatively short term
The general business climate index of the agricultural machinery industry in Europe continues to move in the recession zone. Both the current business evaluations and turnover expectations are negative across all segments. Meanwhile, arable equipment appears to be particularly affected.
However, the current ...