15 August 2012 - Industry performance and prospects: Understand the competitive environment, the leading players and main developments

Friday 21 September 2012.

Folding Carton Industry Outlook 2011 - 2012.
At the ECMA Congress Jules Lejeune, Secretary General ECMA (NL) and Ben Markens, President of the North American Paperboard Packaging Council (US) will round up the Business Outlook Session with a summary of the key statistics for the sector in 2011 and the outlook for 2012. As this will be his last appearance in front of the ECMA membership in his role as outgoing ECMA Secretary-General, Jules Lejeune will attempt to put the recent developments into a longer-term perspective. And how will the recent developments influence the Roadmap 2015 ECMA has mapped out.

Packaging M&A and private equity: what drives the deals in the packaging industry?
Nick Mockett
, partner at Moorgate Capital (UK), is a corporate financier and has focused on the packaging industry for 20 years. His experience includes leveraged buy-outs (including MBOs/MBIs), mergers, acquisitions and disposals, public company takeovers and public to privates, refinancings and restructurings. He has worked on dozens of deals, around the globe, worth over €5bn, and has been active in every substrate. He describes the drivers that determine merger and acquisition activity in the packaging industry and especially the renewed interest of private equity investors, as well as the prospects for the years to come.

The last few years private equity companies have been very active, and have done some major acquisitions in the folding carton industry. How will this affect the future of our Industry?

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European Carton Prospects
A report for ECMA prepared by Packaging Research Intelligence Strategies & Marketing (PRISM)
ECMA brings the 2009/2010 edition of “European Carton Prospects” to your notice, the European folding carton market data sourcebook. The report is a must have for business executives, marketers, budget planners and other professionals looking for representative market data and forecasts about the European folding carton sector.

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