VDAT members market mainly Europe- and worldwide.
The deviation concerning the turnover relevance of the German market of the individual companies is correspondingly high.
This results in a non-representative average value for the share of sales in Germany of 59%
Over the past 3 years, the German market has remained largely stable in sales.
About 17% of the companies report steady sales for the period 2015 - 2017, just under 31% report sales increases of up to 5% - around 35% even higher. A further 17%, however, recorded a decline in sales.