Turnover		Employees
Companies		Gross Value Added
GVA per Labour Cost		Capital Expenditure
Capital Expenditure per person		Stock Turn

	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Sale of motor vehicles
Total net capex £m	291	306	535	577	749	649	736	781	813	807	744
employees				294	294	289	277	280	277	276	277
Net capex per person £				1.96	2.55	2.25	2.66	2.79	2.94	2.92	2.69
Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles
Total net capex £m	56	58	228	340	303	283	307	292	346	353	331
employees				148	154	160	168	170	176	184	186
Net capex per person £				2.30	1.97	1.77	1.83	1.72	1.97	1.92	1.78
Sale of motor vehicle parts and accessories
Total net capex £m	79	77	158	138	126	162	115	64	173	133	121
employees				97	96	94	95	83	92	79	93
Net capex per person £				1.42	1.31	1.72	1.21	0.77	1.88	1.68	1.30
Sale, maintenance and repair of motorcycles parts and accessories
Total net capex £m	9	9	18	16	20	18	5	29	39	37	-14
employees				8	11	10	12	11	13	13	14
Net capex per person £				2.00	1.82	1.80	0.42	2.64	3.00	2.85	-1.00
Total
Total net capex £m	435	450	939	1,071	1,198	1,112	1,163	1,166	1,371	1,330	1,182
employees				547	555	553	552	544	558	552	570
Net capex per person £				1.96	2.16	2.01	2.11	2.14	2.46	2.41	2.07
Retail sale of automotive fuel
Total net capex £m	52	23	41	128	82	168	131	205	140	116	-200
employees				73	66	62	64	66	65	60	57
Net capex per person £				1.75	1.24	2.71	2.05	3.11	2.15	1.93	-3.51

Source: Office of National Statistics: Annual Business Inquiry, published December, 12 months in arrears

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