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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedTop German suppliers boost US sales.(Suppliers; Robert Bosch GmbH; ThyssenKrupp AG)
Automotive News Europe, April, 2004 by Jewett, Dale; Sherefkin, Robert
Byline: Robert Sherefkin, Dale Jewett
Germany's top suppliers won big sales increases in the US last year, a new survey shows.
Continental, Robert Bosch and ThyssenKrupp Automotive posted double-digit sales rises, according to an annual ranking compiled by Automotive News, a sister publication to Automotive News Europe.
Of the top 150 original equipment suppliers to North America, eight of the top 10 gainers in sales revenue are units of German or Japanese companies.
The US growth of German and Japanese suppliers reflects how automakers from the two countries gained in North American vehicle production and how the Big 3 auto makers keep losing market share.
Auto plants partially or fully owned by non-US automakers...
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