Pick-Up Market Faces Disruption From Thai Floods

Australia's pick-up truck market, which features some of the country's best-selling models overall, faces disruption to deliveries for the rest of 2011 as suppliers recover from the floods in Thailand. For some companies it is a case of waiting on parts for local production, while others import their trucks from Thailand or markets where Thai parts are used. BMI believes this could be particularly detrimental to the performance of the 4x4 pick-up segment, which was one of the few categories to record positive year-on-year (y-o-y) growth in the first 10 months of

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