According to Svenska Dagbladet, investigation conducted by Swedbank and Silf to purchasing managers of more than one hundred Sweden large enterprises showed 30% and 11% of purchasing managers from Sweden large enterprises choose China and India as their companies’ most important purchasing bases in the upcoming years, and 5% choose Germany, Poland and Russia.

The investigation revealed in 2007, overseas purchasing proportion of 70% of Sweden enterprises remains between 30% and 70%.

Under the pressure of Sweden purchasing cost, 70% of Sweden enterprises raised overseas purchasing ratio over the past few years, which will increase in the coming years.

About 1/4 of Sweden enterprises will perform service purchasing in Germany, Sweden, China and India while attractiveness of Poland and three Baltic States drops.

China is looked on as the prime purchasing place of medium and low-level technical products by Sweden enterprises, followed by Sweden, Poland and India. However, Sweden is the prime place of medium and high-level technical products due to the finest technical quality and product development competency, prior to Germany and China.