Turnover		Employees
Companies		Value Added
GVA as a % of Labour Costs		Capital Expenditure
Capital Expenditure per person		Stock Turns
Trade Balance

	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Vehicles and Engines
Turnover	23,715	27,199	28,235	28,607	29,580	27,607	27,273	28,573	29,828	30,156	31,461
Opening stock	3,827	3,820	4,045	3,715	3,935	3,151	2,937	2,609	2,334	2,155	2,070
Closing Stock	4,321	3,692	3,754	3,978	3,456	2,934	2,836	2,289	2,250	2,073	2,135
Average stock turn	5.8	7.2	7.2	7.4	8.0	9.1	9.4	11.7	13.0	14.3	15.0
Bodies
Turnover	2,360	2,355	2,698	2,511	2,467	2,480	2,613	2,513	2,821	2,756	2,855
Opening stock	250	282	288	271	265	284	274	272	282	288	351
Closing Stock	294	269	307	279	279	292	256	296	289	327	365
Average stock turn	8.7	8.5	9.1	9.1	9.1	8.6	9.9	8.8	9.9	9.0	8.0
Parts
Turnover	7,046	7,252	8,305	9,107	8,657	8,890	9,451	10,493	10,433	10,591	10,514
Opening stock	605	599	672	684	761	768	727	805	785	796	902
Closing Stock	682	607	689	727	726	768	787	813	779	854	869
Average stock turn	10.9	12.0	12.2	12.9	11.6	11.6	12.5	13.0	13.3	12.8	11.9
Tyres
Turnover			1,647	1,779	1,612	1,441	1,508	1,487	1,460	1,776	1,825
Opening stock			210	195	211	194	194	182	161	149	154
Closing Stock			193	216	193	188	181	171	196	155	168
Average stock turn			8.2	8.7	8.0	7.5	8.0	8.4	8.2	11.7	11.3
Vehicle electrical
Turnover			1,102	1,052	1,066	1,112	1,010	981	1,072	899	770
Opening stock			150	114	132	125	124	96	122	103	96
Closing Stock			148	108	119	134	113	104	120	97	100
Average stock turn			7.4	9.5	8.5	8.6	8.5	9.8	8.9	9.0	7.9
Components sub total
Turnover	9,406	9,607	13,752	14,449	13,802	13,923	14,582	15,474	15,786	16,022	15,964
Opening stock	855	881	1,320	1,264	1,369	1,371	1,319	1,355	1,350	1,336	1,503
Closing Stock	976	876	1,337	1,330	1,317	1,382	1,337	1,384	1,384	1,433	1,502
Average stock turn	10.3	10.9	10.4	11.1	10.3	10.1	11.0	11.3	11.5	11.6	10.6
Total
Turnover	33,121	36,806	41,987	43,056	43,382	41,530	41,855	44,047	45,614	46,178	47,425
Opening stock	4,682	4,701	5,365	4,979	5,304	4,522	4,256	3,964	3,684	3,491	3,573
Closing Stock	5,297	4,568	5,091	5,308	4,773	4,316	4,173	3,673	3,634	3,506	3,637
Average stock turn	6.6	7.9	8.0	8.4	8.6	9.4	9.9	11.5	12.5	13.2	13.2
All manufacturing
Turnover	425,963	450,177	469,787	460,677	461,771	469,146	461,898	450,090	447,637	459,880	466,731
Opening stock	51,834	54,485	56,976	53,318	51,696	49,017	50,854	48,336	47,285	45,832	46,244
Closing Stock	56,994	54,560	55,822	52,675	52,005	52,167	50,038	47,669	46,914	46,807	47,697
Average stock turn	7.8	8.3	8.3	8.7	8.9	9.3	9.2	9.4	9.5	9.9	9.9

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

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