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.
June 2017 - Business mood remains positive
In June, the industry business mood remains firmly positive, reaching the highest value since 2012. The European industry’s forecast for 2017’s total turnover has further improved. 62% of surveyed company representatives expect a moderate growth between 1-9%. Only 10% of respondents expect a decline.
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May 2017 - Industry mood reaches new heights
In May, the industry’s business mood has reached its highest values since 2012.
Although the divergence between future expectations and current business evaluation persists, the order intake strongly suggests growth is picking up.
With a production period of 2.7 months on average, the volume of ord ...
April 2017 - Business mood keeps moving upwards
The industry’s business climate index has reached its highest value since 2012. Future expectations have risen more sharply than the current business situation showing a new divergence between these two variables.
In April, only 9% of the surveyed industry representatives expect a decreasing turnover for t ...
March 2017 - Markets: business mood continues to improve
The industry's business mood is continuing to improve, turning fully into positive for the first time since early 2014.
Future expectations turned positive across all product segments, while the current situation has improved particularly in edge segments (components, turf & livestock equipment).
February 2017 - Industry upbeat about future sales
The farm machinery industry is upbeat about future sales in Europe: the general business climate continued to rise sharply in February, turning into the positive for the first time in 2 years. Total volume of orders is as high as it was last in 2013. With 40% of manufacturers expecting a higher turnover within the n ...
January 2017 - Business mood brightens up
The business mood in Europe’s machinery continues to brighten up. The current business situation has sharply improved. For future business expectations, the index is reaching a positive value for the first time since January last year. Also, a slight majority of manufacturers expects order intake to grow further w ...