Ernst & Young, a consultancy, forecast sales of 5m by 2012.
At the end of January Macroeconomic Advisers, a consultancy, forecast an annualised first-quarter growth rate of 4.1%.Now, however, a much gloomier view prevails, accompanied by a wave of revisions to the figures.
CEBR, an economics consultancy, forecast in October that 27,000 jobs would be lost in London's financial district in 2011, taking the number of financial employees in the City down to a level last seen in 1998.
KPMG, a consultancy, forecasts that next year overcapacity will reach 90%, with China producing 4.9m cars when demand is for only 2.6m.
Those costs have nearly doubled this decade alone, and a new report by Towers Perrin, a benefits consultancy, forecasts they will surge by another 6% in 2009.
Agroconsult, a consultancy, forecasts a "strong reduction" in the amount of land to be planted with cotton, rice and, for the first time in six years, soya.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), a consultancy, forecasts annual growth averaging 2.5% until 2050.But if Poland is to continue to shine, it will have to find solutions to several serious problems.
McKinsey, a consultancy, forecasts that consumption by urban Chinese households will increase from 10 trillion yuan in 2012 to nearly 27 trillion yuan in 2022 (see chart 1).Fickle sophisticatesHow much China spends is striking.
IMS, an industry consultancy, forecasts that sales in the biggest emerging markets will hit $300 billion by 2017, equal to today's sales in the top five European markets and America combined.
IMS Research, a consultancy, forecasts that by 2016 almost 120,000 maps of indoor venues will be available to consumers.Not for garage start-upsCollecting all these data demands a huge investment.
AlixPartners, a consultancy, forecasts that the worldwide market for cars and other light vehicles will expand from about 80m units a year now to 107m in 2020 (see chart 1).
