Commercial Products

The following products are available on an annual subscription basis.


Subscribers to either product below may also receive our monthly CircuiTree, California Circuits Association and Global SMT & Packaging "Market Outlook" columns the day they are written - approximately 25 days before they appear in print or are posted on this website.

Business Outlook is now also supplied in PowerPoint file format!


Electronic Industry "Business Outlook"

This is a 670+ chart presentation updated daily as new data becomes available. Categories include:

  • Global Economy
  • Electronic Equipment
  • Semiconductors
  • PCB Fabrication and Assembly
  • Forecasts and Outlook
  • Revenue, Net Income & Inventories of Key Companies

This color presentation is suitable for strategic planning, sales and management meetings, bank and analyst presentations and employee and stockholder updates. It covers the size and scope of the global economy, currency exchange, electronic equipment growth by end market, emerging technologies, the relation between PCB and electronic equipment demand, the global semiconductor industry with monthly growth by geographical sector, the size and scope of the world PCB fabrication and assembly industries, a list of the largest contract assemblers and PCB fabricators, merger and acquisition activity in the PCB industry, quarterly financial data (sales and net income) for the major N American public PCB fabricators, contract assemblers, electronic equipment manufacturers and semiconductor producers and a summary and future outlook for the world electronics industry. Source references are provided for all charts.

The monthly "Business Outlook" CDROM includes all charts in four formats -  PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat PDF, Harvard Graphics for Windows PRS and GIF.  Individual slides can be "copied and pasted" into Word, Freelance, etc. Both the Acrobat and Harvard Graphics complete presentations are small enough to allow distribution via e-mail. The complete set of 700+ PowerPoint and GIF files is supplied on CDROM only due to their large file sizes.

The presentation is timely and constantly updated. Purchasers will receive monthly updates by mail on CDROM  plus additional updates (PDF) via e-mail throughout the month, reasonable phone consultation and "emergency" updates to meet the needs of pressing presentations.

Daily E-mail News Service

This e-mail based service delivers very timely news relating to global PCB fabrication and assembly, semiconductor and electronic equipment companies as well as key raw material and process equipment suppliers for these industries. Using a multitude of global sources between 500 - 1000 news articles are reviewed daily and the most relevant ones condensed and sent via e-mail to each subscriber. This is an easy, cost effective method of obtaining current industry news without resorting to time-consuming and expensive daily searches.

Check our pricing information and an order form for both Electronic Industry "Business Outlook" and the Daily E-mail News Service.

Note: Custer Consulting Group reserves the right to limit subscriptions of the above products and services based upon pre-existing contractual obligations.


Custer Consulting Group
PO Box 299
The Sea Ranch, CA 95497
Phone: (707) 785-1777
FAX: (707) 785-1988
Mobile: (707) 292-5769 USA
Mobile +1 707 843-0440 (GSM, world) 
E-mail: walt@custerconsulting.com