For a broadly representative sub-sample of 55 companies that could be tracked since 1997, the proportion of revenue generated in the home region has fallen sharply on average, from 50.2% to 36.9%. For these companies, sales to the “rest of Europe,” which represented an average of less than 30% of total European sales in 1997, rose above 43% in 2005.
在1997年后追踪的具有广泛代表性的55个公司子样中，总部所在地的收入比重平均起来都有大幅度下降，从50.2%降到了36.9%。同样在这些公司中，对“欧洲其他国家”的销售额1997年平均只占其欧洲总销售额的不到30%，而2005年已经上升到超过43%。