Kitchen Appliances: Global Industry Guide

Kitchen Appliances: Global Industry Guide

Datamonitor's Kitchen Appliances: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the kitchen appliances industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies

* Covers Global, European, Asia-Pacific & 5 individual country markets

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

Europe is currently the largest of the regional kitchen appliance markets, but the rapidly developing Asia-Pacific region looks set to overtake Europe by 2009.

The global kitchen appliances market is dominated by a small number of large, well-established international companies, including Whirlpool, Matsushita, Electrolux and Maytag.

Consolidation is expected to engross the market over the next few years, as the larger players look to protect their market positions whilst protecting against any future fluctuations within the market.

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Definition

The kitchen appliances market reflects the sale of four product sectors: refridgeration appliances, which include fridges, freezers and fridge freezers;cooking appliances, which include cookers, microwaves, ovens, cooker hoods, food processors and toasters; washing appliances, which include washing machines, clothes dryers and washer dryers; and dishwashers.

The market's value has been calculated using retail selling price and includes all applicable taxes and levies. Any currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2004 annual average exchange rates.

For the purpose of this report Europe is deemed to be France, Germany, UK, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary,Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden.

Asia-Pacific is deemed to be China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, India.

The global market is comprised of Europe, Asia-Pacific, US, Canada, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil.

Kitchen Appliances: Global Industry Guide