Packaging Industry Outlook in Mexico: Market Size, Key Trends, Drivers, and Challenges to 2016

Synopsis

The report provides top-level market analysis, information and insights on the Mexican packaging industry, including:

• Current, historic and forecast values and trends for the Mexican packaging industry, including individual categories
• Comprehensive, country-specific analysis of the industry's market attractiveness, covering key trends and drivers, Mexico's competitive landscape and benchmarking with other key markets
• Description and analysis of the packaging categories and end-user markets for the overall packaging industry
• Porter's Five Forces Analysis of all individual categories and the overall packaging industry

Executive Summary

The Mexican packaging industry has grown rapidly since 2000. It was negatively affected by the global recession in 2008, although the packaging industry appears to have recovered in 2010 and is now expected to grow steadily during the forecast period. The majority of the country's packaging is consumed by the food and beverage end-user market, which accounted for XX% of the packaging industry market value in 2010. Mexico contains the world's third-largest beer market as well as a huge soft drinks market, which provides a large customer base for the packaging industry. The Mexican packaging equipment industry imports the majority of its packaging machinery requirements, with imports accounting for more than XX% of the packaging machinery market value in 2010. The country's economic growth has encouraged more foreign direct investment (FDI) to enter its packaging industry during the review period. In addition, the geographical position of Mexico as a neighbor of the US has also helped increase the industry's attractiveness for investment.

Scope

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the packaging industry in Mexico:
• It provides historical values for the Mexican packaging industry for the report's 2007-2011 review period and forecast figures for the 2012-2016 forecast period
• It offers a detailed analysis of the key categories in Mexico's packaging industry, along with market forecasts until 2016
• It details the different macroeconomic factors affecting the packaging industry in Mexico
• It covers an exhaustive summary on the key trends and drivers affecting the end-user markets in packaging
• Using Porter's industry-standard "Five Forces" analysis, it details the competitive landscape in Mexico for the packaging industry
• It outlines the current regulatory framework in the industry

Reasons To Buy

• Make strategic business decisions using top-level historic and forecast market data related to the Mexican packaging industry and each category within it
• Understand the key market trends and growth opportunities within the Mexican packaging industry
• Assess the competitive dynamics in the packaging industry
• Identify the growth opportunities and industry dynamics within five key packaging categories
• Gain insights into key regulations governing the Mexican packaging industry

Key Highlights

• The Mexican packaging industry has been growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.5% during review period (2007-2011).
• It is expected to continue growing in line with the country's GDP growth during the forecast period (2012-2016), and to register an annual growth of 4% in 2011 compared to 2010.
• The geographical position of Mexico as a neighbor of the US has also helped increase the industry's attractiveness for investment.
• According to the country's new recycling laws, packaging suppliers have to increase their recycling rates, and must ensure the collection and recycling of packaging material after consumers use their products.
• Although Mexico is smaller than other developing nations, such as India, Brazil and South Africa, there are numerous opportunities for the country's packaging industry due to the relative popularity of packaged food in Mexico compared to countries such as India.