Automobile Study 2nd Edition

The second and updated edition of the study "Sustainable Value in Automobile Manufacturing. An analysis of the sustainability performance of automobile manufacturers worldwide" has been published on 26 October 2009. Following the enthusiastic reception of the first edition this updated version now provides an assessment of the sustainability performance of 17 major automobile worldwide manufacturers using the Sustainable Value approach. The analysis now covers the years from 1999 to 2007 based on the most recent data available. At the same time the survey covers about 80% of automobile production worldwide.

In this section, some of the key results of the survey are presented, including a manufacturers' ranking of the Sustainable Value Margin. For a detailed overview of the methodology of the Sustainable Value approach as well as in-depth information on the survey design, please refer to the pdf-version of the survey, which is available as free download on this website.

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Sector Results Here, the absolute Sustainable Value and Sustainable Value Margin of automobile manufacturers as well as a manufacturers' ranking of the Sustainable Value Margin are presented.


Free Download of the entire study as a pdf file in English and German as well as a French short version.

Press Releases (in English/German/French language)

Printable version