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US heavy truck and bus manufacturers include about 80 companies with combined annual revenue of about $25 billion. Major companies include PACCAR (Peterbilt and Kenworth); Volvo of North America; and Blue Bird. The industry is highly concentrated: the top five manufacturers have about 70 percent market share; the top 20 have 97 percent. Many companies are parts suppliers to assembly plants.
COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
Heavy truck demand is driven by growth in the agriculture, manufacturing, construction, and retail sectors. Bus demand is driven by growth in the number of school-aged children and investment in public transportation systems. The profitability of individual companies depends on volume and sales of high-margin options. Small manufacturers compete by supplying parts to other assemblers or by offering highly customized products. The industry is capital intensive: annual sales per employee averages about $750,000.
The industry competes with other forms of transportation, namely trains and planes, which also move freight and people over long distances. Reconditioned and used vehicles also compete with newly manufactured products, since equipment may have a useful life in excess of 1 million miles.
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The Automobile & Motor Vehicle Mfg. Industry report features 2008 current and 2009 forecast estimates on the size of the industry (sales, establishments, employment) nationally and for all 50 U.S. States and over 900 metro areas. The report also includes industry definition, 5-year historical trends on industry sales, establishments and employment and estimates on up to 10 sub-industries, including car bodies and chassises (not engines) of passenger cars, trucks and buses.
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This report is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the future model plans of the world’s major passenger car OEMs At 281 pages in length, the report covers 22 OEMs, 63 brands and more than 600 passenger car and light truck (SUV, MPV and Pickup) models worldwide Extract from the report:…
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This Frost & Sullivan research service titled European Markets for Catalysts provides a comprehensive overview of these markets including market forecasts, technological developments and key challenges In this research service, Frost & Sullivan’s expert analysts thoroughly examine the chemical…
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just-auto predicts that some 10 7m electric power steering (EPS) systems will be fitted to vehicles built in Western Europe by 2013 For many years, power steering technology was focused on hydraulic systems but demand is now favouring EPS, mainly due to fuel consumption and logistical benefits…
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Employers are “having difficulty” implementing environmentally-friendly policies at work beyond recycling, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
The latest quarterly CIPD/KPMG Labour Market Outlook survey, of 757 employers, shows that a clear majority of businesses are encouraging recycling (91%) and energy reduction (83%), but far fewer are ‘green’ in their approach to transport.
Only 45% encourage car-sharing, while fewer still consider more imaginative ways of reducing the need to travel, such as encouraging staff to work from home (30%).
Gerwyn Davies, co-author of the report, said: “There is potential for organisations to promote greener transport alternatives and work practices, such as home-working, to reduce the environmental impact of business travel. Where practical, this could reduce costs and stress levels for employees and improve productivity for the employer – offering a potential win-win situation.”
This suggests that UK…
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Worrying about losing their jobs might make workers more productive, but also less creative, a study has found.
A team of researchers from Washington State University Vancouver looked at the trend of downsizing companies and the resulting effect the insecurity had on employees’ performance.
Research was conducted in both lab and real-life settings. 104 undergraduate students took part in a lab experiment in a simulated organisational environment, which measured changes in creativity and performance after the threat of layoffs was introduced.
Similar data was also gathered from surveys of 144 staff in five organisations in which employees answered questions measuring their job insecurity, counterproductive behaviour, and creative problem-solving ability.
The results showed that while job insecurity led to decreased creativity, increased productivity and a reduction in absenteeism, hostile behaviour and lateness also occurred.
These performance improvements might be due…
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The Bank of Ireland has appointed Christine Brennan as the new head of group HR.
Brennan joins the company from Barclays Bank Group, where she was HR director in the global and retail section. Her main responsibilities in the new role will include progressing the growth of core markets in Ireland and the UK.
Brian Goggin, group chief executive, said: “Brennan brings a wealth of international experience in a range of major organisations that will prove invaluable as we progress our growth ambitions in our core markets in Ireland and the UK and our continued focus on the expansion of our niche skill-based businesses internationally”.
Brennan will begin her role on 1 October 2007, reporting directly to Goggin.
She has had extensive experience in HR, including senior HR roles with Computer Sciences Corporation, BT, and AT&T in the US, London and in the Middle East.
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A date for joint public service strikes is unlikely to be set in time for the original target of the Labour Party conference, unions have admitted.
The National Union of Teachers has been in talks with fellow public sector unions Unison and the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union over co-ordinated strikes.
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said in May that there could be widespread industrial action in ‘late summer’, with prime minister Gordon Brown’s speech at the Labour Party conference on 24 September a possible target.
But with less than a month remaining until that speech, and a fresh ballot likely to be necessary before joint strikes are announced, unions are resetting their sights.
A PCS source told Personnel Today: “I wouldn’t have thought that a strike would happen as soon as the Labour conference.
“There is a meeting of the PCS executive on 4 to 6 September, and we will decide on a path forward then and look to ratify it at the TUC Congress the…
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