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Executive Briefings 2026

Executive Briefings - insights from ICDP

Executive Briefings

ICDP’s Executive Briefings - high-level summaries of our insights on the full range of programme topics - are available for all to read and download. If you make use of them in your own material, please remember to attribute ICDP as the source.

Executive Briefings going back to 2020 are also available to download from the website.

NSC or independent importer, a strategic decision

(last one of 2025)

EB 05/25 Gareth Arnould

The wider challenges facing the industry bring into stark focus the overall distribution strategy that OEMs should be taking, and over the past 15 years there has been some considerable change in how manufacturers approach distribution across the EU and the UK. During the 2010s the was a significant shift from the use of independent importers towards using NSCs.