The 2013 Import and Export Market for Electric Space and Soil Heaters in Greece

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on electric space and soil heaters in Greece face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying electric space and soil heaters to Greece? How important is Greece compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of electric space and soil heaters vary from one country of origin to another in Greece? On the supply side, Greece also exports electric space and soil heaters. Which countries receive the most exports from Greece? How are these exports concentrated across buyers? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers? This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for electric space and soil heaters in Greece. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for electric space and soil heaters for those countries serving Greece via exports, or supplying from Greece via imports. It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models. In what follows, Chapter 2 begins by summarizing where Greece fits into the world market for imported and exported electric space and soil heaters. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for Greece in particular, is estimated using a model which aggregates across over 150 key country markets and projects these to the current year. From there, each country represents a percent of the world market. This market is served from a number of competitive countries of origin. Based on both demand- and supply-side dynamics, market shares by country