Datamonitor has published Containers & Packaging: Global Industry Guide, which includes data on market size and segmentation, profiles of leading companies and textual analysis of key trends and competitive landscape.

Datamonitor has publishedContainers & Packaging: Global Industry Guide, which includes data on market size and segmentation, profiles of leading companies and textual analysis of key trends and competitive landscape. Highlights include:

The global containers and packaging market grew by 3.2% in 2007 to reach a value of $402.6 billion.

The global containers and packaging market is forecast to have a value of $470.8 billion in 2012, a 16.9% increase from 2007.

Paper packaging accounts for 51.3% of the global containers and packaging markets volume.

The Americas generate 34.4% of the global containers and packaging markets volume.

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