Toyota's European sales peaked in 2007 at 1.23 million units.

European duty-free sales amount to almost $6.5 billion a year.

It also reported during that period $1.3 billion in European sales.

But they do not seem worried about European sales.

European sales followed a few years later, by which time Skil had entered the consumer market.

Japanese car makers are laying ever more stress on European sales.

About 30 percent of his business, he said, is generated by European sales.

Compaq's international revenues grew by 56 percent, primarily because of higher European sales.

Its European sales more than doubled last year, to $11.9 million, from $5.5 million in 1985.

In 1992 European sales are expected to exceed $400m.