Worldwide Business Information and Market Reports

www.the-list.co.uk and www.worldmarketresearch.com

Telephone +44 1404 891528 Fax +44 1404 891717 Email reportfinder @ tiscali.co.uk

Just want contact details for one of the companies in this report? Please don't ring us - try www.companieshouse.gov.uk, www.thomweb.co.uk or www.askalix.com

Join the ReportFinder mailing list and be told of new reports

Email:

AM31013

AMA ELECTRICAL ACCESSORIES MARKET : 2002

Overview

This report covers: electrical accessories, wiring, circuit breakers, switchgear, cables, conduit, trunking, plugs, sockets, switches, lighting fitments, consumer units, moulded case circuit breakers, miniature circuit breakers, residual current devices, distribution boards, fuseboards, fuses, fuseholders, switchboards, isolating switches, switch fuses, domestic & industrial cables, cable accessories, conduit, trunking & fittings, busbars, chambers

Companies covered include:

Key Areas

Table of Contents

Executive Summary

Back to Electrical Equipment Index and Shopping Cart

Back To REPORTFINDER home page and Search Engine

Brief Description

KEY AREAS

Back to Top

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLES AND CHARTS

Back to Top

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

For this report the ' Electrical Accessories market' is defined as covering 3 broad product groups with power ratings of up to and including 1kV AC or 1kV DC: -Wiring Accessories -Circuit Protection Devices & Switchgear - Low Voltage Cabling & Accessories.

With the markets for all 3 product groups mature, recent annual growth rates by value have been modest, although by volume, increases in demand have been more significant. In recent years, key market drivers have included high levels of activity in commercial construction and home improvement and strong growth in demand for electrical and electronic equipment in both residential and non-domestic applications. However, price erosion, resulting from intense competition in the electrical contracting sector and penetration of low cost imports from the Far East, have had a limiting impact on growth rates in key sub sectors.

Those mainly affected have been low-value commodity products e.g. white-moulded wiring accessories, LV standard mains cabling and cable accessories.

Import penetration in the market for LV circuit protection and switchgear products remains much lower, due to factors such as safety legislation and product quality. In 2001 and 2002, the severe downturn in the TMT and financial services sectors has had a marked impact on demand for cabling in general, LV distribution boards and associated components. Furthermore, the PFI programme has yet to make any significant impact on demand for electrical installation equipment, although over the next few years some £25bn worth of projects are scheduled to come on-stream.

It is expected that key areas of opportunity will be the NHS, secondary education, defence establishment and 'justice' sectors. In 2002, there has been some stabilisation in prices across the product sectors under review, now that import penetration has reached a peak and UK supplied products are more competitive against imports from China and from suppliers in other East Asian countries.

This ought to contribute towards some stability in the electrical accessories market. Furthermore, it is expected that the recent trend towards market consolidation will continue, so removing excess capacity and thereby relieving some of the pressure on prices. This has already been seen in the cables sector following the departure from the market of Delta Crompton and BICC Cables in the latter 1990s. More recently, there have been several other acquisitions including those of several UK companies by Tyco Electronics plus also the aborted attempt by Schneider Electric to acquire Legrand SA.

Text © 2002AMA Research

Back to Top

Back To REPORTFINDER HOME PAGE

Ariadne - working together with our customers to enhance productivity and increase knowledge

© 2002 www.the-list.co.uk Ariadne

Last updated by Amanda Porteous 2002