Recent Study: The UK Packaging Industry to 2015

Feb. 14, 2011 - PRLog -- This report offers insights into market opportunities and entry strategies adopted to gain market share in the UK packaging industry. In particular, it offers in-depth analysis of the following:

* Market Opportunity and Attractiveness: Detailed analysis of current market size and growth expectations during 2010-15. It highlights key drivers to help understand growth dynamics. It also benchmarks the industry segments against key global markets and provides detailed understanding of emerging opportunities in specific areas.
* Procurement Dynamics: Trend analysis of exports and imports of packaging material, along with their implications and impact on the UK packaging industry.
* Industry Structure: Five forces analysis to understand various power centers in the individual industry segments and how they are likely to develop in the medium term.
* Competitive Landscape: Analysis of key companies in the public and private sectors of the UK packaging industry.
* Market Entry Strategy: Analysis of possible ways to enter the market along with an understanding of how existing operators have achieved this, including key contracts, alliances, and strategic initiatives.
* Business environment and country risk: a range of drivers at country level, assessing business environment and country risk. It covers historical and forecast values for a range of indicators, evaluating business confidence, economic performance, infrastructure quality and availability, labor force, demographics, and political and social risk.

Report Scope

* Analysis of packaging industry market size from 2006  through 2010 and forecasts till 2015
* Analysis of market size and production trend by paper and board, flexible plastic, rigid plastic, metal, and glass packaging segments
* Packaging equipment market size and forecast
* End use market dynamics
* Benchmarking with key global markets
* Market opportunities
* Packaging material import and export dynamics
* Industry dynamics: Five forces analysis of paper and board; flexible plastic; rigid plastic; metal; and glass packaging segments
* Market entry strategy
* Competitive landscape and strategic insights
* Business environment and country risk

Reasons to Purchase

* Gain insight into the UK packaging industry with current, historic and forecast period market size details of paper and board, flexible plastic, rigid plastic, metal and glass packaging segments
* Get insight on market opportunity and attractiveness
* Get insight on industry import and export dynamics
* Gain insight on industry structure
* Gain insight into the regulations governing the UK packaging industry and the potential market entry strategies with an expert analysis of the competitive structure
* Identify top companies of the UK packaging industry along with profiles on those companies

Key Highlights

he UK packaging industry in UK registered a CAGR of 4.07% in the review period. However, the industry suffered a setback with the economic downturn in 2008 and 2009, which saw the economy contract by 4.9% in 2009 after registering 0.5% growth in 2008. The decline in GDP (gross domestic product) led to a decrease in both employment and consumer expenditure in the UK and in the forecast period, the packaging industry faces the challenge of lower domestic demand as a result of this. As a result the tough economic conditions, the UK packaging industry is expected to register a CAGR of 3.16% during the forecast period, 2011-15 to reach XX billion in 2015.

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Partial Table of Contents:

1 Introduction
1.1 About this report
1.2 Definitions
1.3 Methodology
1.3.1 Secondary research
1.3.2 Primary research
1.3.3 Conventions
1.4 About ICD Packaging Research Center
2 Executive Summary
3 Market Attractiveness and Emerging Opportunities
3.1 Packaging Material Market Size and Forecast
3.1.1 The UK packaging industry is expected to be worth US$23.7 billion by 2015
3.2 Market Share and Production Trend Analysis by Segment
3.2.1 The market share of the paper and board packaging category will decline
3.2.2 The flexible plastic packaging category is in a strong position in the UK market
3.2.3 The rigid plastic packaging category is expected to grow at a slower rate
3.2.4 UK glass packaging market is expected to decline
3.2.5 Increased price of metal to affect the metal packaging industry during the forecast period
3.3 Packaging Machinery Market Size and Forecast
3.3.1 Packaging machinery market in the UK is expected to register improved growth
3.4 Benchmarking with Key Global Markets
3.4.1 The UK is the eight largest packaging market globally
3.4.2 High packaging per capita spending makes the country rank among top twenty globally
3.4.4 Paper and board: The UK paper and board packaging market valued at US$7.5 billion in 2010; ranks eighth among the global markets
3.4.5 Flexible Plastic: The US, China and Japan account for 31.6% of the global market; UK share remains 2.42%
3.4.6 Rigid Plastic: The UK rigid plastic packaging segment remains competitive compared to other global markets
3.4.7 Metal: The UK metal packaging market ranks tenth among the global markets
3.4.8 Glass: The UK remains competitive in the global glass packaging market
3.5 End-user Market Dynamics
3.5.1 UK packaging industry growth to be supported by growth in the food and beverages industry
3.5.2 Aging population expected to drive moderate growth in the UK's pharmaceutical market
3.6 Market Opportunities: Key Trends and Growth Stimulators
3.6.1 Slow recovery rate from global financial crisis may affect the UK packaging industry
3.6.2 Increasing focus on lightweight and eco-friendly packaging
3.6.3 Other drivers of the UK packaging industry
3.6.4 Significant investment by domestic companies in paper and plastic packaging
4 Packaging Import and Export Market Dynamics
4.1 Export and Import Dynamics

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