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STRATEGY ANALYTICS: Magna Heads up Automotive Electronics Supplier Growth Rates

BOSTON--New research, Automotive Vendor Profiles, from the Strategy Analytics Automotive Electronics Service (AES), profiles the leading global automotive electronics vendors, and charts their relative successes and failures. Canadas Magna International reigns as the fastest growing automotive supplier, with an average annual rate of over twenty percent growth in the last five years.

Key themes from this analysis include much stronger five-year growth rates from some North American-based vendors. However this success story excludes companies, such as Delphi and Visteon, which continue to struggle. In addition, much of the growth is coming from suppliers non-automotive operations, with one of the leading performers, JCI, expecting its overall sales to grow during the next financial year, despite its automotive interiors business shrinking some 3 to 5 per cent.

Analysis of the 5-year average growth rates of the main companies in this report shows that North American-based companies are surpassing last years Japanese companies in this sector, comments Ian Riches, the Director of Strategy Analytics Automotive Electronics Service. Six of the top 15 fastest growing companies are North American-based, five European and four Japanese. North American-based companies take five of the top seven places, he adds.

  • In general, five year average growth rates have risen. This years fifteenth ranked company, Brose, at 10.7% would have ranked as low as tenth in last years analysis. The top twenty companies this year all scored higher five year average growth rates than the fifteenth-ranked company last year.
  • Only eight companies showed negative five year average growth rates compared to fifteen companies in last years analysis.
Company HQ

Average Annual Sales
Growth Rate for Last
Five Years(a)

Magna International Canada 20.0%
Aisin Group Japan 14.8%
Johnson Controls (JCI) USA 14.4%
Melexis Microelectronics Belgium 14.1%
Texas Instruments USA 13.0%
International Rectifier USA 12.9%
Microchip Technology USA 12.9%
ZF Friedrichshafen Germany 12.6%
Nippon Seiki Japan 11.9%
Stanley Electric Japan 11.8%
Autoliv Sweden 11.7%
Calsonic Kansei Japan 11.6%
Eaton Corporation USA 11.1%
Infineon Technologies Germany 11.1%
Brose Fahrzeugteile Germany 10.7%

Source: Strategy Analytics

(a)Based on total company sales

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