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Executive Summary

Market Definition

MARKET POSITION

MARKET TRENDS

Table 1: Estimated Apparent UK Market Demand for Packaging by Sector (£m and percent), 1994

Market Size

PRODUCT SECTORS

COMPARISON OF UK AND EUROPEAN PRODUCTION

GLASS RECYCLING

EXPORTS AND IMPORTS

Table 2: Apparent UK Demand for Glass Containers (£m at msp), 1990-1994

Table 3: UK Manufacturers' Sales of Glass Containers (£m at msp), 1990-1994

Table 4: Glass Container Production in the EU (000 tonnes), 1991-1993

Table 5: EU Glass Production by Sector (000 tonnes), 1990-1993

Table 6: Glass Recycling Rates in Europe (000 tonnes and percent of consumption), 1992 and 1993

Table 7: Exports and Imports of Glass Containers (£m), 1990-1994

Industry Background

DISTRIBUTION

COMPANY SPECIALITIES

TRADE ASSOCIATIONS

Competitor Analysis

THE MARKETPLACE

LEADING COMPANIES

Table 8: The Main Glass Packaging Manufacturing Companies in the UK, 1993/1994

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT)

FOOD AND DRINK

PHARMACEUTICALS

PERFUMES, COSMETICS AND TOILETRIES

Buying Behaviour

THE DEMAND FOR GLASS PACKAGING

FOOD AND DAIRY

BEVERAGES

PHARMACEUTICALS

PERFUMES, COSMETICS AND TOILETRIES

HOUSEHOLD GOODS

MISCELLANEOUS

Table 10: Estimated Market Shares in Main Product Areas ( percent), 1995

Outside Suppliers to the Industry

RAW MATERIALS

EQUIPMENT

MAJOR SUPPLIERS

DISTRIBUTORS AND IMPORTERS

Current Issues

POLLUTION CONTROL

INNOVATIONS IN DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

EU LEGISLATION

UK AND CONTINENTAL EUROPE

RECYCLING

Forecasts

Table 11: Apparent UK Demand for Glass Containers (£m at 1994 prices), 1995-1999

Company Profiles

INTRODUCTION

DEFINITIONS

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Sources

ASSOCIATIONS

PERIODICALS

DIRECTORIES

GENERAL SOURCES

ICC INFORMATION SOURCES

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS

OTHER SOURCES

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The apparent UK market for glass packaging containers is valued at an estimated £581m in 1994, which represents around 6 percent of the total packaging market (comprising paper and board, plastics, metal cans, glass and wood) whose sales are estimated at £9.6bn in 1994. Demand, by value, has increased significantly over the past few years, helped mainly by growth in sales of non-returnable beer bottles and partly by recovery from the recession.

Over the past decade, the industry was consolidated into a small number of large manufacturing groups, which brought many benefits to the competitiveness of the industry against other packaging materials. Access to greater financial resources has enabled the leading companies to invest heavily in the latest design and production technologies, and to radically re-organise the various businesses so they are more efficient units and able to respond quickly to new opportunities.

Various developments in the 1990s are tending to favour demand for glass packaging, but this will not necessarily make much impact on its current market share in the UK. These developments revolve around environmental issues and the cost of materials where glass has certain advantages. Recovery of waste packaging and recycling is accelerating under the stimulus of a combination of EU Directive, legislation and voluntary efforts. Glass is easy to recycle and cullet (waste glass) is a desirable and relatively cheap raw material for the industry. Its ready availability helps to contain the prices of virgin raw materials -- silica sand, potash, etc., which are plentiful and comparatively cheap. This contrasts sharply with the rapidly rising cost of paper and board, plastic raw materials and metals. These factors are helpful in stabilising demand for glass and in preventing the further erosion of market share, even though there is very little possibility of this share increasing because of the narrow band of activities where glass is predominant.

Prospects for the remaining years of the decade are unexceptional despite the more favourable environment for glass packaging. It is anticipated that growth, in value terms, will average approximately 1 percent per annum, reaching a total UK market value in 1999, of £680m compared with an estimated £608m in 1995, at constant 1994 prices.

The whole packaging industry will be affected by increasingly severe environmental legislation and taxation of packaging in order to force a reduction in consumption and, unless more value can somehow be added to the packaging materials, it seems inconceivable that the UK market will grow significantly. Customers have already shown that they are unwilling to absorb the present steep increases in packaging costs and, with the concentration of buying power among fewer large retail companies, this resistance will become even stronger.

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