By Peter Clarke , Nov. 07, 2018 –
The three-month averaged sales figure for August was $40.91 billion, up 13.8 percent from the same three-month average a year before and a slight decrease in annual growth from the previous month.
China continued to be the strongest region and showed exception annual growth in its three-month average market up to $14.35 billion, up 26.3 percent. The Asia-Pacific region excluding China and Japan is the next largest with three-month-average sales of $10.42 billion but annual growth of only 2.4 percent.
The Americas region with sales of $9.20 billion achieved strong growth of 15.1 percent while Europe and Japan had growth of 8.8 and 7.2 percent, respectively.