Our Services

Overview　

A members only information service that saves companies in the automotive industry time and money by providing essential information about suppliers around the world (including who supplies whom, plant data, and market trends), sales and production statistics, reports on technology and market trends, model plan data including forecasts, and more. All information is available in Japanese, Chinese, and English.
All of this information is gathered independently through means like press releases, interviews, purchases from independent agencies, and cooperation with other companies. The data is then integrated and analyzed, converted into a database for industry professionals, and made available to members.

What is a platform?

In the automotive industry, a platform is a series of components used in common for a number of different models to reduce development time and costs, as well as to raise quality. This is a mainstream development concept for automakers, who face stiff price competition.
Auto industry companies that access our "information platform" gain a similar effect to that described above. In short, it is a tool for optimizing information strategies.

Service Advantages

1.Cost effectiveness

Purchasing various information sources individually&An All-in-One Package

A variety of information is essential for everyday business...

Statistics	Automotive production and sales numbers are key indicators for management decisions.
Share information	Share information is essential for competitive analysis.
International exhibition information	Attending the automotive exhibitions held all around the world is a shortcut to understanding the trends of customers and competitors through direct contact with new products and technologies.
Industry journals	Reading financial journals is not enough. Industry journals are an important communication tool for related companies.
Monthly research reports	Monthly reports that sort through and analyze subjects like new technologies, markets, and OEM trends are a treasure trove of information for developing business materials.

However...

Purchasing all of these materials individually and traveling around the world to attend various events is prohibitively expensive. Our information platform is an all-in-one package that offers access to all manner of essential information with one ID.

2.Enriched content to meet customer needs

3.Convenient search functions and high practicality

MarkLines has databases covering a variety of information such as vehicle sales/production volume, model changes and electric vehicle models that you can search using your preferred criteria.
Text and images can be copied easily for purposes of secondary processing and data can also be cited in in-house documents.
Information platform can be accessed from any PC, tablet, or smartphone at any time and any place to search for necessary information.

4.The service is offered in multiple languages to offer globalization support

Whether a company has already expanded overseas, or is planning to do so in the future, sharing information between offices is essential to truly become global.
The information platform offers nearly identical content in Japanese, English, and Chinese, and it is possible to switch between these languages with a single click.

5.A support network based in seven countries

After joining the MarkLines service members are supported by offices in Japan, the U.S., China, Thailand, Germany, India, and Mexico.

Annual Service Fees

1Group Contracts

We can provide quotes for consolidated global contracts or contracts for multiple group companies, to meet your planning needs.

2Contracts for individual corporate entities

Effective from July 1, 2023

Contract Location	Currency	Number of Users / Annual Fee
Contract Location	Currency	More than 21	Up to 20	Up to 10	Up to 4	Up to 2
America: USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil Asia: Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, and other countries	US$	$ 20,400	$ 15,300	$ 10,200	$ 6,300	$ 5,100
Europe: Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Spain, Czech, Poland, Denmark, Russia, Finland, Hungary, Norway, Portugal	Euro	€ 20,400	€ 15,300	€ 10,200	€ 6,300	€ 5,100
UK	Pound	£ 16,800	£ 12,600	£ 8,400	£ 5,400	£ 4,200
China *	RMB	RMB 144,000	RMB 108,000	RMB 72,000	RMB 45,000	RMB 36,000
Japan **	Yen	¥ 2,400,000	¥ 1,800,000	¥ 1,200,000	¥ 780,000	¥ 600,000

* The service fees for China include value added tax (VAT) from April 4, 2012.
** Fees do not include tax. Consumption tax will be charged to the service fees of Japan.

With every renewal, your company is eligible to receive One free user account, not exceeding 2 free users in 2 years. (This program is only for manufacturing companies). Please be aware that a reduction in the number of registered users will result in the invalidation of the free registrations that had been issued.
The fees quoted above are applied to each legal entity. Any affiliated companies, subsidiary companies, foreign branches, or foreign representative offices of the subscriber company must sign up separately.
Prices may be subject to change without prior notice due to changes in service content.
Fees shall be paid in a lump sum.
Please note that we may provide individual quotes for some companies, such as consulting and research firms, or decline use of our services.

Membership Process

Download the application form and send it MarkLines by E-mail.

We will provide IDs and passwords by email.
Use these to login from the designated page.

All of MarkLines services become available for use.

Automotive Sales and Production Data

＜Automotive Sales and Production Data＞
　Sales volume　https://www.marklines.com/en/vehicle_sales/
　Production volume　https://www.marklines.com/en/vehicle_production/

•	A database of overwhelming size covering sales in 62 countries (96% of global sales) and production in 43 countries (97% of global production).
•	The data is broken down by model each month (in some countries, by automaker).
•	Search and Excel file downloads are possible by all key parameters including multiple countries, automaker, model, and segment (vehicle class).
•	Reports on electric vehicle sales volume in 14 major countries are also included.
•	Production volume is linked to production plant information.
•	For countries you are watching every month, we will send a notification email as soon as the results are announced.

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Market & Tech Reports

＜Market & Tech Reports＞　https://www.marklines.com/en/report/

•	MarkLines provides 250 reports each year on themes covering the automotive industry from all angles such as country, OEM, and technology. Users can grasp new automotive trends, new technologies, and strategies of each company.
•	As for trade show information, our coverage is extensive, from large-scale events such as motor shows in each country to production technology and material-related exhibitions held across Japan.
•	We also provide in-depth technical reports in partnership with companies specializing in various fields, such as EV vehicle teardown reports (Tesla Model Y, Hyundai, Ioniq 5 and others), VSI Labs (US) on automated driving and TTDC (Toyota Technical Development Center) on patent information.

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Who Supplies Whom 300 components supply chain

＜Who Supplies Whom 300 components supply chain＞　https://www.marklines.com/en/wsw/

•	You can search our 380,000 item database for the component suppliers’ supply information of about 300 components. Please use it to collect information on sales and procurement sources.
•	Market share graphs are published for about 40 items globally and 80 items in Japan, and you can comprehend at a glance component manufacturers’ sphere of influence. In the future, we plan to expand the share information to 100 components.
•	Five regions (Japan, China, ASEAN/India/Korea, the Americas, Europe) and newly posted supply chains can be viewed by switching tabs.

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Model Launch Schedules

＜Model Launch Schedules＞https://www.marklines.com/en/modelchange/

•	MarkLines provides new vehicle and full model change information for the next five years.
•	Coverage of major Japanese, European, American, and Chinese OEMs by major countries, representing over 90% of global production volume (excluding commercial vehicles).
•	With visual data, model and platform (chassis) transitions are seen at a glance; the same platforms are displayed in the same colors.
•	In the vehicle model/refined search you can search by model name, electric powertrain, release year, body type etc.

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News

＜News＞　https://www.marklines.com/en/news

•	MarkLines provides 30 global news articles every day, over 13,000 per year.
•	Local news from the major automotive countries (Japan, China, India, Thailand, USA, Mexico, Europe) is delivered quickly. You can catch articles that are not available except in the local language in a timely manner.
•	Because we publish high quality articles based in partnership with the Nikkan Jidosha Shimbun (Japan Automotive Daily) and various overseas media, you will obtain reliable information.
•	By clicking on tags attached to individual news items or searching by keywords, you can narrow down news from the database of 100,000 articles published since 2002.
•	The same news is published in three languages, English, Japanese, and Chinese, enabling you to switch languages to share information easily with overseas sites.

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Search Suppliers

＜Search Suppliers＞　https://www.marklines.com/en/supplier_db/

•	From a parts classification of about 1000 components you can search the information of more than 70,000 tier1 and tier2 suppliers from around the world.
•	Search by manufacturing process such as injection molding or die-casting is also possible.
•	It is possible to search by region/country and refine by customer, for example, sorting by parts suppliers in Indonesia who have delivered to Toyota.
•	For companies in Thailand, financial information and representative corporate officers’ data is registered, making it useful for business contacts.
•	All search results can be displayed on Google Maps, so you can see multiple parts suppliers location distribution.

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Major Parts Suppliers Reports

＜Major Parts Suppliers Reports＞　https://www.marklines.com/en/top500/

•	The latest trends of about 400 of the largest component suppliers in the world including 137 companies in Japan, 68 in China, 37 in Germany, and 44 in the U.S. are shown.
•	Since we cover motor shows and trade shows in countries around the world and photograph all the exhibition contents of each company, you will be able to see competitors’ and customers’ products and panels at shows which you cannot attend.
•	Information of equipped vehicle models and model year is posted for each product.
•	When information on a company you are interested in is updated, we will send you a notification email.

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OEM Plants Interactive Map

＜OEM Plants Interactive Map＞　https://www.marklines.com/en/global/

•	The site covers more than 2,300 EV, battery, and other plants of OEMs on a global scale, with information on production models, plant capacity and production records.
•	The production capacity of each plant can be confirmed even by the size of the circles on the Capacity Distribution maps.
•	The information can be downloaded in Excel file format, enabling sorts by OEM or by plant. Each plant-specific page also includes recent topics.

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Electric / Autonomous

＜Electric / Autonomous＞　https://www.marklines.com/en/green_vehicles/case_top

•	The database covers major specifications of EVs, PHVs, HVs, and FCVs throughout the world, and is updated with each full or minor model change.
•	The database includes information on EV technology such as drive motor (output and torque), battery (type and capacity), power consumption and cruising range; information on autonomous driving technology includes equipment information such as collision avoidance/mitigation, visibility/blind spot assistance, acceleration/deceleration control, and communication systems.
•	The search can be narrowed down by battery type and capacity, number of drive motors and output/torque, automated driving level, safety equipment, and more.