Datamonitor's Health Care Equipment & Supplies in Asia-Pacific industry profile is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the health care equipment & supplies industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, plus textual and graphical analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, leading companies and demographic information.

Scope

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and/or segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry’s recent performance and future prospects

* Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis and scorecards

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

* The leading companies are profiled with supporting key financial metrics

* Supported by the key macroeconomic and demographic data affecting the market

Highlights

* Detailed information is included on market size, measured by value and/or volume

* Five forces scorecards provide an accessible yet in depth view of the market’s competitive landscape

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Market Definition

The health care equipment & supplies market consists of manufacturers of health care equipment and supplies. Market value refers to the revenues generated through the sale of disposable equipment such as syringes, catheters, electrodes, sutures, bandages, implantable prostheses and orthotics and prosthetics; technical aids such as hearing aids and wheelchairs; ophthalmic equipment such as eye glasses, contact lenses and ophthalmoscopes; in vitro diagnostics such as devices for clinical chemistry, microbiology, immunology and genetic tests; and other equipment such as imaging equipment and films and equipment for radiotherapy, dialysis, endoscopy, anaesthetics, etc. The market is valued at manufacturer's selling price with any currency conversions calculated using constant 2006 annual average exchange rates.

For the purpose of this report the Americas comprises Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the US.

Europe comprises Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

Asia-Pacific comprises Australia, China, Japan, India, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.

The global figure comprises the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3
CHAPTER 1 Market Overview 7
1.1 Market Definition 7
1.2 Research Highlights 7
1.3 Market Analysis 8
CHAPTER 2 Market Value 9
CHAPTER 3 Market Segmentation I 10
CHAPTER 4 Market Segmentation II 11
CHAPTER 5 Five Forces Analysis 12
5.1 Buyer Power 12
5.2 Supplier Power 13
5.3 New Entrants 14
5.4 Substitutes 15
5.5 Rivalry 16
CHAPTER 6 Leading Companies 17
6.1 Toshiba Corporation 17
6.2 Hitachi Medical Corporation 20
6.3 GE Healthcare 21
CHAPTER 7 Market Forecasts 23
7.1 Market Value Forecast 23
CHAPTER 8 Appendix 24
8.1 Methodology 24
8.2 Industry Associations 25
8.3 Related Datamonitor Research 25

LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: Asia-Pacific Health Care Equipment & Supplies Market Value: $ billion, 2002-2006 9
Table 2: Asia-Pacific Health Care Equipment & Supplies Market Segmentation I: % Share, by Value, 2006 10
Table 3: Asia-Pacific Health Care Equipment & Supplies Market Segmentation II: % Share, by Value, 2006 11
Table 4: The Impact of Buyer Power on Asia-Pacific Health care equipment & Supplies Industry, 2006 12
Table 5: The Impact of Supplier Power on Asia-Pacific Health care equipment & Supplies Industry, 2006 13
Table 6: The Impact of New Entrants on Asia-Pacific Health care equipment & Supplies Industry, 2006 14
Table 7: The Impact of Substitutes on Asia-Pacific Health care equipment & Supplies Industry, 2006 15
Table 8: The Impact of Rivalry on Asia-Pacific Health care equipment & Supplies Industry, 2006 16
Table 9: Key Facts: Toshiba Corporation 17
Table 10: Key Financials: Toshiba Corporation 19
Table 11: Key Facts: Hitachi Medical Corporation 20
Table 12: Key Facts: GE Healthcare 21
Table 13: Asia-Pacific Health Care Equipment & Supplies Market Value Forecast: $ billion, 2006-2011 23