Introduction

• Executive summary
• Key figures at a glance
• SWOT analysis
• Industry definition

• Revenue development
• Revenue and growth of subcategories
• Industry comparison
• Revenue distribution by size
• International and domestic revenue
• Average revenue per company
• Gross value added
• EBT margin by sales categories
• Industry comparison of EBT margin
• Imports and exports over time
• Imports and exports by continent

• Number of companies
• Distribution of establishments by employee size
• Companies by state
• Index compared to distribution across the entire economy
• Number of petitions for bankruptcy
• Amount of expected claims
• Number of employees affected by bankruptcies
• Order indices by region
• Order indices in comparison to manufacturing sector

• Number of employees
• Average weekly hours
• Paid weekly hours by performance group and deviation from the industry average
• Annual mean wage
• Average monthly gross wage by subcategory
• Deviation from industry mean wage
• Development to the previous year
• Number of degrees in industry typical program
• Final exams passed

• Innovation expenditures
• Innovator rate
• Share of companies with market innovations
• Innovations share of total industry revenue
• Intensity of innovation
• R&D expenditures
• Personnel active in R&D in full-time equivalents
• Distribution of internal R&D expenditures
• Share of companies with ongoing and occasional R&D

• Comparison of turnover
• Turnover and growth of top countries
• Number of enterprises
• Number of employees
• Average turnover per enterprise
• EBIT as share of turnover
• Asset-to-equity ratio
• Current debts / total assets
• Cost structure as share of turnover
• Staff costs as share of turnover