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With Europe looking "fairly good" and a growing market share for his company, Moriaki Kadoya, president, CEO and chairman of the management board at Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) - HCME - is optimistic, but is not getting carried away. "Europe is not a fast-growing market,"he said. "We see growth, but it is a long-term trend." He said that the markets in the UK and Germany were good. He described Germany as stable, saying that it had been hit in 2008/9, but that the damage had been limited. It has recovered to 2006 levels, he said. While some difficulties had been expected for France, this had not proved as bad as had been predicted. "Portugal and Spain hit the bottom a couple of years ago. There a clear signs of recovery, but it is small."