Growth, Uncertainty and End-user Benefits Are Key Underlying Themes
Washington, DC, January 9, 2012— The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association which represents the $628 billion equipment finance sector, today revealed its Top 10 Equipment Acquisition Trends for 2012. Given that every year U.S. businesses, nonprofits and government agencies spend in excess of $1.2 trillion in capital goods or fixed business investment , financing more than half of those assets, these trends impact a significant portion of the U.S. economy. Growth, uncertainty and numerous end-user benefits underlie many of the trends that businesses acquiring equipment this year can expect.
ELFA President and CEO William G. Suttonsaid, “Equipment acquisition has played a critical role in driving the supply chains across all U.S. manufacturing and service sectors. We have distilled recent research data, including the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation’s 2012 Equipment Leasing & Finance U.S. Economic O
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