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Executive Summary

Market Definition

MARKET POSITION

Table 1: Output of the UK Construction Industry at Current Prices (£m), 1990-1994

Table 2: Output of the UK Infrastructure Sector at Current Prices (£m), 1990-1994

Market Size

TOTAL MARKET

THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

AGRICULTURE

MINING AND QUARRYING

CONCLUSION

Table 3: Estimated Size of the Plant Hire Market by Value at Current Prices (£m), 1989-1994

Table 4: Value of Work Done in the Construction Industry During Third Quarter of the Year in Relative Terms ( percent), 1989-1993

Table 5: Output of the UK Construction Industry in Relative Terms ( percent), 1990-1994

Table 6: Output of the UK Infrastructure Sector in Relative Terms ( percent of total), 1990-1994

Industry Background

INTRODUCTION

INDUSTRY CONCENTRATION

EMPLOYMENT

CONCLUSION

Table 7: Number of Plant Hire Legal Units by Turnover Range, 1989-1993

Table 8: Number of Private Contracting Firms by Number of Employees, 1989-1993

Table 9: Number of Firms Hiring Plant With and Without Operatives, 1989-1993

Table 10: Value of Work Done by Private Contractors During the Third Quarter of the Year (£m), 1989-1993

Table 11: Value of Work Done by Firms Hiring Plant With and Without Operatives During the Third Quarter of the Year (£m), 1989-1993

Table 12: Value of Work Done by Construction Industry Broad Sectors During the Third Quarter of the Year (£m), 1989-1993

Table13: Employment of Plant Hire Operatives As At Third Quarter of the Year, 1989-1993

Table 14: Employment of APTC Staff As At the Third Quarter of the Year, 1989-1993

Table 15: Total Employment of Plant Hire Operatives and APTC staff As At the Third Quarter of the Year, 1989-1993

Table 16: Total Number of Plant Hire Employees, 1989-1993

Competitor Analysis

THE MARKETPLACE

MARKET LEADERS

ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT)

STRENGTHS

WEAKNESSES

OPPORTUNITIES

THREATS

Buying Behaviour

INTRODUCTION

INDUSTRY CLIENTS

PLANT HIRE PROCEDURES

HIRE RATES

Table 17: Number of Legal Units of Builders and Civil Engineers by Turnover Range (£000), 1993

Table 18: National Average Weekly Plant Hire Rates (£), 1991 and 1994

Outside Suppliers to the Industry

SALES BY UK-BASED MANUFACTURERS

EXTERNAL TRADE IN MACHINERY

SUPPLYING COMPANIES

Table 19: Total Machinery Sales by UK-Based Manufacturers (£m), 1989-1993

Table 20: Exports of UK Machinery at Current Prices (£m), 1989-1993

Table 21: Imports of Machinery into the UK (£m), 1989-1993

Table 22: General Machinery Market in the UK at Current Prices (£m), 1989-1993

Current Issues

THE ECONOMY

MOVING TOWARDS THE FUTURE

TECHNICAL PROGRESS

Forecasts

THE GENERAL ECONOMY

PROSPECTS FOR THE PLANT HIRE INDUSTRY

Table 23: Some Economic Indicators (£m and percent), 1989-1994

Table 24: Forecast of the UK Plant Hire Industry (£m), 1994-1996

Company Profiles

Further Sources

ASSOCIATIONS

PERIODICALS

DIRECTORIES

GENERAL SOURCES

ICC INFORMATION SOURCES

ICC INFORMATION GROUP LTD

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS

OTHER SOURCES

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The market for the services of the plant hire industry is not very large, estimated at £2bn. The largest users of the services of the plant hire industry are the construction industry, mining and quarrying. The construction industry accounts for over 65 percent of the turnover of the industry and construction new works accounts for 86 percent of this. There has been no growth in turnover during the last 3 years. The plant hire industry is fragmented: with a decline in the number of firms in 1993.

The value of work done in plant hire during the third quarter of 1993 was put at £327m, down from £340m for the same period of the previous year. The supply of work from the mining industry decreased in line with the demise of the coal industry. The decrease in turnover is reflected by the downward trend in the UK market for machinery which stood at £6.69bn in 1989, but £1.93bn in 1993.

The number of employees in the firms which supply operatives with hired plant was 16,171 in the third quarter of 1992; for the same period of the following year, the number had fallen to 14,382. Overall, if the firms which do not supply operatives are taken into consideration, the number of employees increased to 23,671 in the third quarter of 1992 and it falling to 21,382 in the same quarter of 1993. There is also a large number of freelance operatives in the industry but their number is unobtainable.

The plant hire industry is over dependent on the construction industry and as mining decreases to nearly nil, this dependence will increase. There is a very powerful case to be made for diversification into other industrial sectors. There is a need for specialised consultancy services, and the increasing versatility of the machines produced at present should help the plant hirers to offer more services to the reviving manufacturing sector.

The prospects for the industry for the next 2 or 3 years are poor. Growth will be static and it is likely that rates will fall. Profit margins will only profit from internal reorganisation and will not come from an improving market. It is to be feared that £2bn will be the ceiling for the turnover of the industry up until 1996.

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