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Market overview | Brazil
Brazil’s boating industry has done an extreme- about face in the last five years. According to industry statistics, new boat sales are down 30%-40% in the last year, following two previous years of declines. Some categories are worse than others, but every boatbuilder is feeling the pain.
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Market overview | Australia
Various changes are giving the Australian leisure marine industry greater confidence about the future
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Market overview | US
A side-by-side comparison of 2006’s retail unit sales for new boats with the most recent numbers is confusing, especially when most industry analysts sound ecstatic about the current market. Almost everyone in the US industry, except the sailboat and sterndrive segments, see 2015 as the definitive recovery year, with ...
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Market overview | Gulf
Back in the gloomy days of 2008, at the start of the global financial crisis and the impending storm that would affect the leisure boating industry in Europe and the US, the Gulf was seen by many as a market that would provide a lifeline for the boating industry. ...
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Market overview | Scandinavia
A weakened Krona and euro are helping exports of bigger boats but domestically it’s small boat sales that are driving a resurgence
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Market overview | Germany
Despite the Greek debt crisis and ongoing tensions with Russia over Ukraine, Germany’s leisure marine firms ended 2014 on a relatively upbeat note. Sales of marine goods and services, excluding superyachts, were up by 1.7% to $1.77bn compared to the previous year, with all sectors of the market – new ...
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Market overview | Colombia
Lured by Colombia’s booming economy, a large percentage of its nearly 50 million population have turned to the marketplace for a wide range of products. Cars, seaside properties and boats are some of the high-ticket items in demand.
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ReportMarket overview: France
Despite a difficult home market, the French nautical industry is harbouring hopes of recovery on the back of a weakening euro and rising exports
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Market Overview | Italy
With 95% of boat production headed for the export market, Italy’s shipyards have been busy reinventing themselves. Most are courting the Americas and Asia for growth, and looking at non-Italian yards as their newest competitors
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Market overview | Italy
Italy’s marine industry last year began a slow return to growth. UCINA, the country’s marine trade association, had forecasted much higher growth earlier in 2014, after a robust first quarter. But the second half of the year produced lacklustre boat sales inside Italy, forcing most shipyards to once again rely ...
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Market overview | France
Despite the general European malaise and a sluggish domestic economy, there are a small number of significant reasons why the clouds could well be lifting on the French marine market. The depreciation of the euro against the dollar should boost French exports – particularly to the US, which is proving ...
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Market overview | UK
According to the British Marine Federation (BMF) the uk’s new build sector for powerboats accounts for 26.5% of the uk’s annual total of £2.32 billion spent on boating activities, whilst sailboat manufacture was just 3.4%. These figures should come as no surprise, as they reflect the UK’s significant output ...
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Market overview | Netherlands
Against a backdrop of deteriorating market conditions, leisure marine firms in the Netherlands are trying their best to remain upbeat. Most concede, however, that 2014 will be another year of hardship, as conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East threaten to destabilise the eurozone’s already fragile recovery. “We’re ...
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Market overview | Hong Kong
At the time of writing, the high-stakes poker game between the students and the government in Hong Kong appears to be coming to a thankful, blood-free impasse. However, it is not too early to consider what lasting impact the pro-democracy protests will have on the former British colony and ...
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Market overview | China
When assessing the future prospects of Chinese boating there is a wide acceptance that it has the capacity to become one of the world’s leading markets if not the biggest. But those active in the market will also tell you that it is a complex one in which to ...
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Market overview | New Zealand
New Zealand’s "rock-star" economy has had a diverse impact on its boating industry. Low unemployment and low interest rates have helped domestic sales of trailer boats, particularly in the aluminium category, but the record-high New Zealand dollar has dampened exports of equipment and smaller boats, while almost halting new orders ...
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US marine market overview
For the first time since 2008, most US boatbuilders are expecting a good year. While the cruiser and sailboat markets seem to be stalled, and sterndrives still haven’t bottomed out, every other segment is reporting growth.
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US: Market overview
For the first time since 2008, most US boatbuilders are expecting a good year. While the cruiser and sailboat markets seem to be stalled, and sterndrives still haven’t bottomed out, every other segment is reporting growth.
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South America: Market overview
The boating culture in South America has been growing at a steady pace, but the market hasn’t performed in the same fashion across the region. Sales have been on a roller coaster for the last couple of years, and the instability is not as much from the economic climate ...
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Turkey: Market overview
For the past decade, turkey has been an economic powerhouse, supported by a stable government, and with the prospect of accession to the EU drawing in billions of euros of investment. The GDP has literally tripled since 2002 from uS$231bn to US$786bn by 2012, a year which also saw a ...
