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.

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corona virus since the beginning of last week, the results of this survey can unfortunately already be considered as out of date.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 ...

November 2019 - Business Climate remains in the negative trend
The industry business mood remains in the recession zone. The current business situation has further deteriorated, expectations for the next 6 months are clearly negative although they seem to have slightly stabilized in November.
A strong order intake from previous months makes the orders volume to take 2.7 ...

October 2019 - European Ag Machinery Industry in Recession
The general business climate index of the agricultural machinery industry in Europe is further deteriorating. Meanwhile, the industry is clearly in recession. The business climate is now negative across all segments. Manufacturers of arable and livestock equipment appear to be particularly affected.
On an in ...

September 2019 - Negative trend confirmed by business climate index
The September CEMA barometer indicates that the general business climate index of the agricultural machinery industry in Europe is now in negative range for the third time in a row, with both current and future business expectations evaluated as negative. The expected slowdown in incoming orders is also confirmed, a ...

August 2019 - Business climate overall repeatedly negative
The general business climate index of the agricultural machinery industry in Europe is in negative range for the second time in a row. In July, both the evaluation of the current business and the future expectations, became negative for the first time since 2016. In August, contrary to future expectations, current b ...

July 2019 - Europe's agricultural machinery industry in downturn
The general business climate index of the agricultural machinery industry in Europe has continued to deteriorate significantly. This time all segments are affected (except lawn, garden and municipal equipment). As a result of the renewed sharp deterioration, both the evaluation of the current business and the future ...

June 2019 - Business climate further deteriorating significantly
The general business climate index of the agricultural machinery industry in Europe has continued to deteriorate significantly. While previously it had been primarily future expectations that dragged down the index (last month future expectations have dropped as sharply as they last did in May 2016), meanwhile the c ...