Why bigger is not always better in construction equipment
01 May 2026
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In mature industries, scale is expected to deliver better margins, faster growth and greater stability. Yet, as fresh analysis from abcg consultant Alan Berger suggests, when it comes to construction equipment, those assumptions do not hold – raising doubts about whether a major consolidation wave is really on the horizon.
On paper, the construction equipment sector should be consolidating. It is a mature-but-growing industry, shaped by the sort of commercial and technological pressures that typically reward scale and gradually narrow the field. Yet the reality is more complicated. For all the headline deals, strategic repositioning and product evolution of the…
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