IndustriAll Project « Strategic study on anticipation of changes in the European ICT sector » Phase 2 : sub‐sectorial analysis October 2015 Table of contents CHAPTER 1 – TELECOMS ................................................................................................. 4 1. NETWORKS .................................................. 6 1.1. Short overview ........................................................................................................... 6 1.2. The drivers ................................................................................................................. 6 2. DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES ...................................... 8 2.1. Many M&A are ongoing in the telco industry ........................................................... 9 2.2. Strategy ................................................................................................................... 10 2.3. The main players ..................................................................................................... 11 2.4. Outlook .................................................................................................................... 11 2.5. Desired state ............................................................................................................ 11 3. SET-TOP BOX AND GATEWAYS .................................... 12 3.1. Major players .......................................................................................................... 13 3.2. Technological trends and strategy .......................................................................... 14 4. MOBILE HANDSET ............................................ 14 4.1. Mobile handset sales ............................................................................................... 15 4.2. Major players .......................................................................................................... 16 5. WHAT’S GOING IN EUROPE? .................................... 18 CHAPTER 2 – SMART CARDS ......................................................................................... 20 1. OVERVIEW OF THE SECTORAL TRENDS .............................. 22 1.1. Smart cards have been, and will probably be a dynamic market in the mid term .. 22 1.2. Smart cards employment: Europe still hosts a significant part of jobs ................... 24 2. DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND STRATEGIES OF THE SECTOR ............. 26 2.1. Game changer technologies: softwarisation, and the tide of M2M ....................... 26 2.2. Strategies of the players .......................................................................................... 28 3. MAIN PLAYERS AND EMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE ......................... 29 3.1. Overview of the main competitors .......................................................................... 29 3.2. Trends for the employment in Europe ..................................................................... 31 CHAPTER 3 – ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS ..................................................................... 34 1. OVERVIEW OF THE SECTORAL TRENDS .............................. 36 1.1. Semi‐conductors sector has been buoyant in 2014 and this should continue in the mid term .............................................................................................................................. 36 1.2. However, the clout of Europe in global semi‐conductor industry has shrunk ......... 38 1.3. Employment in Europe ............................................................................................ 39 2. DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND STRATEGIES OF THE SECTOR ............. 39 2.1. Game changer technologies .................................................................................... 39 2.2. Strategies of the players .......................................................................................... 40 3. MAIN PLAYERS AND EMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE ......................... 46 3.1. Overview of the main competitors .......................................................................... 46 IndustriAll project "Strategic study on anticipation of changes in the European ICT sector” 3.2. Trends for the employment in Europe ..................................................................... 54 CHAPTER 4 – CONNECTORS .......................................................................................... 57 4. OVERVIEW OF THE SECTORAL TRENDS .............................. 59 4.1. A significant growth for the Connector industry since the 2009 crisis and good perspectives towards 2020 .................................................................................................. 59 The Connector industry has retrieving growth after the 2009 drop ................................... 59 Connectors sales are likely to go on growing in the mid‐run .............................................. 60 Main actors : US and Japanese groups dominate the ranking ............................................ 61 A profitability even better than before the 2009 crisis ....................................................... 62 4.2. Employment in Europe ............................................................................................ 62 5. DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND STRATEGIES OF THE ACTORS: ............ 63 5.1. Game changer technologies .................................................................................... 63 5.2. Strategies of the players .......................................................................................... 64 The Connectors industry goes on concentrating ................................................................. 64 But there is still place for big SMEs on specific markets ..................................................... 65 6. MAIN PLAYERS AND EMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE ......................... 67 6.1. European market ..................................................................................................... 67 6.2. Overview of the main European competitors .......................................................... 70 6.3. Trends for the employment in Europe ..................................................................... 76 CHAPTER 5 – CONSUMER ELECTRONICS AND DOMESTIC APPLIANCES .......................... 79 1. OVERVIEW OF THE SECTORAL TRENDS .............................. 81 1.1. A complex market with a wide range of products .................................................. 81 1.2. Employment in the sector ........................................................................................ 87 2. DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND STRATEGIES OF THE SECTOR ............. 89 2.1. Increased digitalization of home appliances ........................................................... 89 Table 1. Trends in consumer electronics, by products ......................................................... 89 Table 2. Trends in domestic appliances, by products .......................................................... 90 2.2. Profound changes in television technologies towards smart and connected TVs... 90 2.3. A competitive landscape marked by multiple mergers and acquisitions ................ 91 2.4. Sustainability ........................................................................................................... 92 3. MAIN PLAYERS AND EMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE ......................... 95 3.1. In the sub‐sector of consumer electronics, European TV producers lost the battle against Asian companies ..................................................................................................... 95 3.2. The largest European producer of home appliances, Bosch moves towards digitalization ........................................................................................................................ 96 3.3. The global leader Samsung has a limited industrial presence in Europe ................ 97 3.4. LG Electronics aims at becoming market leader on the Home entertainment market 99 3.5. Groupe SEB expands its presence in Europe .......................................................... 100 3.6. Whirlpool doubles its footprint in Europe through the acquisition of Indesit ....... 102 3.7. Electrolux continues its restructuring plan and at the same time makes courageous acquisitions. ....................................................................................................................... 103 3.8. Trends for employment in Europe ......................................................................... 105 2 Table of contents – Telecoms IndustriAll project "Strategic study on anticipation of changes in the European ICT sector” CHAPTER 6 – CABLES .................................................................................................. 109 1. OVERVIEW OF THE SECTORAL TRENDS ............................. 111 1.1. A highly fragmented sector with strong competitors in Europe ........................... 111 2. NUMBER OF PERSONS EMPLOYED IN THE EUROPEAN CABLES SECTOR: A DROP OF 15% SINCE 2008 .............................................. 117 3. WORLDWIDE TRENDS OF THE SECTOR .............................. 118 4. MAIN PLAYERS AND EMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE ........................ 119 4.1. Leoni, the largest European player, is highly dependent on the automotive sector ............................................................................................................................... 119 4.2. Prysmian restructured its activities in the Netherlands and France ...................... 121 4.3. Nexans is pursuing transformation ....................................................................... 122 4.4. NKT Cables grows through acquisitions and targets cost cutting ......................... 123 4.5. General Cables restructuring actions including in Europe ..................................... 124 4.6. Tele – Fonika, a strong local player in Central and Eastern Europe ...................... 125 5. TRENDS FOR EMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE ............................. 125 CHAPTER 7 – COMPUTERS ......................................................................................... 127 1. OVERVIEW OF THE SECTORAL TRENDS ............................. 129 1.1. A highly fragmented sector with a reduced footprint in Europe ........................... 129 1.2. Employment in the Computer sector in Europe: a drop of more than 30% since 2008 ............................................................................................................................... 134 2. DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND STRATEGIES OF THE SECTOR ............ 135 2.1. Game changer technologies .................................................................................. 135 2.2. Trends in storage systems business ....................................................................... 135 2.3. Mergers and acquisitions ...................................................................................... 136 3. MAIN PLAYERS AND EMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE ........................ 138 3.1. HP targets cloud, mobile, big data, security ......................................................... 138 3.2. DELL turned private and focused on end‐user computing .................................... 139 3.3. Apple has a limited manufacturing presence in Europe ........................................ 141 3.4. IBM exited PC business and focuses on cloud, big data and cognitive computing 142 3.5. Atos expands through the acquisition of Bull and Xerox ....................................... 144 3.6. Fujitsu business shrinks in Europe, focuses to services .......................................... 145 3.7. Hitachi has a broad range of activities in Europe, including Enterprise Storage System ............................................................................................................................... 146 3.8. Trends for employment in Europe ......................................................................... 147 Table of contents – Telecoms 3 Chapter 1 ______________________ Telecoms IndustriAll project "Strategic study on anticipation of changes in the European ICT sector” Chapter 1 – Telecoms 5 IndustriAll project "Strategic study on anticipation of changes in the European ICT sector” The telecom sector is made up of 3 main segments: Networks 110 €b STB & Gateways. 30 $b Mobile handsets. 200 €b 1. Networks 1.1. Short overview At worldwide level, networks are representing a 150€b market1. Around 50 b€ can be added with the enterprise networks market. The network telecom market does not grow fast anymore due to the NSP’s cycle investment. Some analysts believe that the Wireless market may have peaked in 2015 and then might decrease in the forthcoming years due to the wait‐and‐see attitude of the NSPs before the 5 G ramp‐up. At best, the Wireless market might stay stable from now on to 2019. Nevertheless, some segments in the market are still growing. That’s the case for instance of the critical point of IP routers. This segment should benefit from a steady growth. Other applications such OSS/BSS should also enjoy a strong growth. SDN and NFV are also growing a lot in a context of a datacenters boom and the virtualization of networks. 1.2. The drivers Mobile subscribers One of the main drivers is the mobile subscriber growth. According to According to Ericsson2, smartphone subscriptions might rise from 2600 million in 2014 to 6100 million in 2020! Tomi Ahonen Forecast3 is more cautious with “only” 3700 million smartphone subscribers in 2018… Nevertheless, this growth of the smartphone sales along a global growth subscriber of mobile subscribers, from will feed data explosion in the forthcoming years. 1 Digiworld Yearbook 2015. Idate May 2015. 2 Ericsson – smartphone – mobility report. May 2015. 3 Mobile Forecast 2014‐2018. Tomi T Ahonen. 2015 6 Chapter 1 – Telecoms IndustriAll project "Strategic study on anticipation of changes in the European ICT sector” Data and increasing traffic Traffic is increasing at a stellar speed due to the rise of smartphones subscribers and intense use of video. This trend should continue during many years. It means that networks will have to support a growing amount of data and be flexible so as to face data explosion. Chapter 1 – Telecoms 7 IndustriAll project "Strategic study on anticipation of changes in the European ICT sector” European decline in employment Employment in Europe has been strongly declining these last 15 years. Many European players gave up or were acquired (Marconi, Siemens…). Major companies implemented many restructuring plans. Fabless became the motto of most of the players. First, networks providers began to outsource to Electronic Manufacturers Services (Flextronics, Jabil…). The manufacturing units were quickly closed in Western Europe and were offshored either to Eastern Europe or to Asia. Almost all manufacturing jobs disappeared in the 2000’s. Even in Eastern Europe. Then offshoring projects were launched in order to create Shared Services Centres, mostly in Eastern Europe (Czech republic, Poland…). R&D at first began to be offshored but only in the case of legacy products. Quickly, things evolved and more innovative developments began to be offshored. Nowadays firms such as Ericsson have at least 35% of their total headcount located in Asia4. In the case of Nokia – before ALU’s takeover –it’s around 40%5. Global employment in telecom equipment is around a million jobs worldwide. Figures do not include Foxconn and the likes. These figures come from the top 60‐telecom companies. Some figures are not available. In some cases, Samsung or Apple, assessments have to made so as not to include retail employees for instance. In Europe, the number of employees in the manufacture of communication equipment (ANCE code 26.3) was around 180 000 in 2012. It must be lower today. 2. Disruptive technologies In the telco industry, technological changes are uninterrupted. Wireless is a good illustration with 4G being currently deployed all over the world and further improvements such as VoLTE and LTE‐Advanced at their beginning. In the meantime 5G researches have already begun. As regards to fixed broadband, copper is still being upgraded with VDSL? VDSL2 and now G.Fast along fiber improvements. Telecom players do invest a lot in R&D. As a whole, it’s an intensive R&D industry with R&D/Sales ratio of 12‐15%. One of the major issues of the telco market is the rise of SDN and NFV. Because networks are supporting more and more users, data and needs, scalability and adaptability are key. SDN (Software Defined Networking) and NFV (Networks Function Virtualization) are being deployed like in Domain 2.0 AT&T program. SDN is the opportunity to centralize equipment control through software. Networks can become programmable. SDN is often linked to NFV. NFV is the virtualization, that is softwarization, of major networks functions. Using commoditized equipments, these softwares are becoming the key part of the networks and are hosted in the cloud. This major trend will progressively redesign networks architecture and favour telecom and IT convergence. 4 Ericsson website. October 2015. Facts & figures. 5 Nokia’s People & Planet Report 2014. 8 Chapter 1 – Telecoms
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