PDF (7.3 MB) - GILDEMEISTER Interim Report 3rd Quarter 2012

Forecast Report: Future Development of the gildemeister Group 115Future Development of the gildemeister groupgildemeister will further expand its global presence in major markets. The cooperationwith Mori Seiki especially contributes to this in the Asian and American markets. Withmany years’ experience, wide-ranging technological know-how and our power of innovation,we will continue to hold a leading position among leading producers of cutting machinetools. As a technology group, innovative ideas and breaking new ground in machinetechnology, services and software products are key factors for gildemeister in securingthe future of the company.We consider the future consumer markets with growth potential to be primarilythose of the bric countries. Current forecasts from the vdw and the British economicresearch institute, Oxford Economics, expect a growth rate of 18% and a share in globalconsumption of 42% in these four markets. With an increase in order intake of more than25%, gildemeister plans a higher than average share in this growth. In Brazil, Russia,India and China we will further strengthen sales and service and cement our leadingcompetitive position. We will stringently focus on growing sales sectors, such as aerospace,medical technology and renewable energies. At the start of 2011, we plan to extendthe cooperation with Mori Seiki to the African markets as well as to Mexico.In the first quarter of 2011 we are expecting order intake of more than € 350 million(previous year’s quarter: € 302.3 million). For the whole year we are anticipating growingdemand for our “Machine Tools”, “Services” and “Energy Solutions”. We intend toachieve order intake of more than € 1.6 billion for the whole year. Our planning anticipatesthat the positive cyclical development will last throughout this year. The regionaldistribution of orders will shift further towards Asia. This premise is based on the estimateof the vdw on the development of machine tool consumption. We are expecting specificimpetus to come from the international trade fairs: The most important machine tooltrade fair in Asia is the cimt in Beijing, where gildemeister will present 28 exhibits from11 to 16 April. The emo, the most important trade fair worldwide for machine tools, takesplace from 19 to 24 September. gildemeister will present 70 exhibits in Hanover, ofwhich 10 will be world premieres.business reportSupplementary / Forecast Report