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These two pressures will play out around the world, but the effect on the cost of food production may well differ from country to country, says Mirjam Röder at the University of Manchester, UK, who is one of the authors of the report. Other countries may rely less on imported food, or have more resources to help them adapt their food production infrastructure.

Market share can be seen from multiple angles. The above chart only takes into account the total number of contracts and this remains the most common method of analyzing this market.

In the future, utility customers will have real alternatives to grid power available to them. Energy efficiency and distributed generation are rapidly taking their place alongside traditional energy sources. Add in electric vehicles, and future customers may present a far different (and at times negative) load profile to the utility serving them. Already delivery systems with high concentrations of solar are experiencing adverse operational impacts today.

“Although high component costs and sluggish demand currently hamper the sales of electric two-wheel vehicles today, this market is poised for growth as consumer markets continue to expand and new high-profile competitors such as Harley Davidson enter the market,”

Much of the volatility in the cable market is tied to the raw material costs on the supply side. As a result, the pricing trends of cables and wires are not entirely driven by market demand. The market is also far from being homogenous, with the end user profiles ranging from wholesale purchasers, telecom operators, retail users, utility managers, power supply companies as well as enterprises. The leverage enjoyed by the buyers is by and large directly proportional to their off take and inversely proportional to the criticality of cables and wires to their operations. While the technology behind cables has remained consistent, it has not stayed static. As with most applied sciences, cables have witnessed a relentless stakeholder drive towards achieving better transmission with lesser resources. This has led to improvement and improvisations in the core conductor as well as its assembly technologies.