The total value of order intake in the KION Group increased by 8.6 per cent to EUR4.877 billion last year. Moreover, the Group started this year with an order book worth EUR787.2 million, 13.5 per cent up on the figure reported twelve months earlier. The Group's order intake measured in terms of units came to approximately 155,000 trucks. This was 8.5 per cent higher than the previous year's figure and thus outstripped the 7.8 per cent growth in the global market.
Consolidated revenue improved by 4.1 per cent to EUR4.678 billion in 2014. Rising by 8.6 per cent, revenue from the service business was far higher than in the previous year and was therefore a considerable factor in the Group's good revenue growth. The proportion of the KION Group's total revenue generated by the service business advanced to 45.9 per cent last year (2013: 43.9 per cent).