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Global Automotive Perspectives 2008: Key insights on major shifts and challenges impacting the global automotive industry	The truck industry's green challenge: Headwind or competitive edge?	2007 automotive M&A insights: An annual review of M&A activity and key trends within the global automotive sector	The automotive industry and climate change: Framework and dynamics of the CO2 (r)evolution

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Analyst notes: Subscribe for free
PwC Automotive Institute Analyst notes are designed to provide insightful analysis on the global automotive sector in a concise, easily-digestible format.

Intellectual property in the automotive industry: Transfer pricing aspects
This paper addresses the main issue surrounding intellectual property in the automotive industry, and how various methods drive the way that profits are recognised for tax purposes.

Vietnam's automotive component industry: Ready to go global?
This study assesses the state of the Vietnamese automotive industry and identifies the main drivers and key factors to consider when considering investing in Vietnam. For the intrepid, Vietnam does offer possible medium to long-term opportunities, yet the industry is still very much in a development stage and significant challenges remain.

Transfer pricing in the automotive industry
Transfer pricing economics is a practical combination of micro- and macroeconomics and when properly applied, it lays out the entire value chain of activities of a corporation on a location by location basis to assess the most equitable possible arrangements between disparate entities within a corporation.

Production capacity management: A taxing issue
Inside this paper, PwC transfer pricing specialists examine trends in PCM, key tax and cash considerations and PCM, managing PCM developments in practice, and the benefits of alignment in a production capacity management restructuring.

Automotive supply chain risk assessment: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
This Automotive Sector point of view provides you with a proactive approach to mitigating supply chain risk, outlining the steps that companies can take to realize the benefit of not having to experience a supply interruption, providing a company the ability to predict where the next weak link in a supply chain is likely to occur.

Eastern Influx: Automotive manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe - Part 5
An increasing number of automotive manufacturers are migrating to Central and Eastern Europe but even with the best preparation and research, there are serious challenges that only emerge once the move has actually taken place. One of the most common issues is identified as fraud in the fifth and final part of the Eastern Influx series, by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Eastern influx: Automotive manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe - Part 4
In this paper we address the challenges associated with managing the transition to a new site in one of the 10 Central and Eastern European states that have recently joined the European Union (EU).

Eastern influx: Automotive manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe - Part 3
How should an automotive manufacturer or supplier that has decided to relocate to Central and Eastern Europe set about closing an existing plant in another country? This paper explores the challenges associated with disposing of such a business while optimising the value of the assets and controlling the costs.

Eastern influx: Automotive manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe - Part 2
What if a company decides to go ahead and take the plunge? Where, precisely, should it go? Our second paper covers the issues involved in choosing the right location. Finding the right location for a manufacturer's needs is not just a matter of selecting the right country, it is also a matter of selecting the right place within the right country.

Eastern influx: Automotive manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe - Part 1
In this, our first paper on setting up production facilities in Central and Eastern Europe, we discuss the continental drift of the past few years. We also look at the factors any manufacturer should consider before it decides to follow in the tracks of those that have already headed east.

R&D taxes in the automotive industry
Given that automakers and suppliers spend an average of 4% of revenue on R&D, and the impact of applicable direct and indirect taxes, it is essential for companies to study the tax ramifications before developing or expanding R&D operations. This study provides a means for doing so.

International fleet guide - Car taxation in 16 countries
Global warming may change the landscape. It is certainly impacting the automotive industry, where environmental performance is becoming a major influence. Car taxation has started to be used as a policy instrument to make consumers factor in the environmental performance of a car in the purchase decision or lease decision. In light of these developments, Fleet Europe and PricewaterhouseCoopers have collaborated to update taxation system information for 16 western European countries and to map the different tax systems applicable to the use and leasing of cars.

2006 fuel cell industry survey
The PwC 2007 Fuel Cell Industry Survey examines the 2006 year-over-year financial results of the world’s 26 publicly traded companies whose primary business involves one or more of fuel cell production, systems integration, and/or related fuelling infrastructure.

Block exemption regulation publications
This series provides a detailed review of several aspects of the Block Exemption Regulation (BER) promulgated by the European Commission, and provides an assessment of the impact of the regulation on the European automotive distribution marketplace.

Automotive industry investment and location drivers - Focus on Sweden
This report investigates the main factors governing investment and location decisions in Sweden's automotive industry.

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