Auto Aftermarket Report

Over 25 years of Experience Helping Companies Profitably Compete in Asia’s Automotive Market

Technomic Asia is a strategic consultancy firm with more than 25 years of experience throughout Asia. Through proprietary research and consulting, including industry defining mutliclient programs such as our study of China’s automotive aftermarket,Technomic Asia assists globally-expanding companies to build their Asian businesses through high quality market strategy and implementation assistance.

Technomic Asia has broad and deep experience in Asia’s automotive industry at multiple levels in the value chain

  • Vehicle maker
  • OEM and aftermarket
  • Components, equipment, materials and services
  • Across the Asian region

Having conducted over 900 assignments for more than 300 western firms in Asia, Technomic has a unique competence to assist companies in their regional entry and expansion initiatives. Technomic’s process builds a strong business case for our clients’ growth strategies which are founded on a detailed understanding of market dynamics. Since the early 1980s, Technomic Asia has been assisting clients to:

  1. Understand the Asian market and its key participants 
  2. Determine if and to what extent they should invest in Asia
  3. Identify where they can profitably participate
  4. Develop the optimum approach for their entry or expansion
  5. Support startup or implementation of their defined growth initiatives

Example programs in the Asian automotive industry are presented below:

  • Distribution assessment in China’s light vehicle aftermarket for seals and bearings
  • Acquisition assessment (candidate identification and screening) for repair and collision service operations in Taiwan, Malaysia and Philippines
  • Due Diligence on the auto paint refinishing market in China
  • Distribution strategy in light maintenance and repair parts in China
  • Acquisition due diligence in China’s market for automotive lifts
  • Development of a China aftermarket retail strategy
  • Evaluation of tire and tube material additives opportunity across Asia region
  • Assessment of the China market for automotive beautification products
  • Evaluation of China market for industrial controls for diesel gensets, large turbine and gas engines
  • Opportunity evaluation and strategy assessment of China’s market for gaseous and diesel engine control strategies
  • Assessed opportunities and threats in China fiberglass re-enforced materials for the automotive industry
  • Assessment of opportunities and threats in China wheel weight market. Assessed local producer capabilities and strategies for export
  • Strategic assessment of opportunities in China’s market for tire cord as a prelude for a manufacturing investment
  • Assessed opportunities in China’s market for automotive fabric as a prelude to market entry
  • Evaluated activity and threat of China brake component suppliers to North American and European markets