2021 Directory

Statistics BFPA statistics service update 2021 36 www.bfpa.co.uk By Sarah Gardner, Market/Statistics Manager, the BFPA. With April 2021 marking the end of BFPA’s 61st year, it is interesting to reflect on the history of BFPA’s surveys and statistics and how they have developed over the years into today’s information service. The longest running (and first launched) AHEM survey was the Hydraulic Short Term Trends Survey which was introduced in 1975. Of this new survey it was written in the 1976 Annual Report: “This is a quarterly report based upon the returns received from member companies. The questionnaire used is quite simple and when the replies are collated give an indication of market movements and some basic problems.” BFPA still carries out quarterly market trend surveys for hydraulics, pneumatics and distributors –  Jeremy Leonard, Oxford Economics.  2019 BFPA Economic Forecast Seminar.