MoreThe Assembly Top 50 devoted $110.6 billion to capital expenditures in 2010. That’s 9 percent more than they spent in 2009, but it’s 21 percent less than they spent in 2008. Only 15 of the Top 50 spent more on property, plants and equipment in 2010 than they spent in 2008.
| Capital Expenditure ($ millions) | ||||
| Company |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
08 vs 10 |
| Toyota | 23,688 | 15,452 | 20,339 | -14% |
| General Electric | 10,954 | 6,478 | 7,208 | -34% |
| General Motors | 7,530 | 5,379 | 4,200 | -44% |
| Daimler | 4,954 | 3,491 | 4,881 | -1% |
| Ford | 6,492 | 4,059 | 4,092 | -37% |
| Hewlett-Packard | 2,990 | 3,695 | 4,133 | 38% |
| Honda | 6,453 | 3,751 | 3,928 | -39% |
| Nissan | 13,507 | 11,241 | 9,358 | -31% |
| Siemens | 5,179 | 3,544 | 3,121 | -40% |
| IBM | 4,887 | 4,077 | 4,754 | -3% |
| Apple | 1,199 | 1,213 | 2,121 | 77% |
| Boeing | 1,074 | 1,186 | 1,125 | 5% |
| Robert Bosch | 4,560 | 2,726 | 3,179 | -30% |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3,066 | 2,365 | 2,384 | -22% |
| Dell | 440 | 367 | 444 | 1% |
| United Technologies | 1,216 | 826 | 865 | -29% |
| Fiat | 6,922 | 4,872 | 4,960 | -28% |
| Lockheed | 926 | 852 | 820 | -11% |
| Mitsubishi Electric | 1,443 | 1,173 | 1,297 | -10% |
| Cisco Systems | 1,005 | 1,008 | 1,174 | 17% |
| Caterpillar | 3,886 | 2,472 | 2,586 | -33% |
| Volvo | 1,677 | 1,481 | 1,531 | -9% |
| Abbott Laboratories | 1,288 | 1,089 | 1,015 | -21% |
| Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | 2,002 | 1,904 | 1,524 | -24% |
| Continental | 2,220 | 1,239 | 1,732 | -22% |
| BAE Systems | 807 | 847 | 678 | -16% |
| Northrop Grumman | 681 | 654 | 770 | 13% |
| Johnson Controls | 807 | 647 | 777 | -4% |
| Philips Electronics | 1,072 | 755 | 872 | -19% |
| Honeywell | 884 | 609 | 651 | -26% |
| General Dynamics | 490 | 385 | 370 | -24% |
| ABB | 1,171 | 967 | 840 | -28% |
| Flextronics Intl | 462 | 176 | 471 | 2% |
| Schneider Electric | 579 | 485 | 502 | -13% |
| Deere & Co. | 1,112 | 907 | 762 | -31% |
| Raytheon | 378 | 347 | 386 | 2% |
| Magna Int'l | 739 | 629 | 784 | 6% |
| Mitsubishi Motors | 913 | 591 | 811 | -11% |
| Xerox | 335 | 193 | 519 | 55% |
| Alcatel-Lucent | 1,254 | 990 | 918 | -27% |
| Emerson Electric | 714 | 531 | 524 | -27% |
| Research in Motion | 1,521 | 1,431 | 1,596 | 5% |
| Motorola Solutions | 408 | 204 | 335 | -18% |
| Faurecia | 458 | 243 | 406 | -11% |
| Whirlpool | 547 | 541 | 620 | 13% |
| ZF Friedrichshafen | 1,307 | 743 | 778 | -40% |
| Rolls-Royce | 414 | 472 | 560 | 35% |
| Tyco Int'l | 1,098 | 1,245 | 1,277 | 16% |
| EMC | 991 | 716 | 1,108 | 12% |
| Medtronic Inc. | 663 | 635 | 548 | -17% |
| Total | 139,363 | 101,883 | 110,634 | -21% |
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