The new Wrapping & Paper Packaging in Europe industry profile available from Market Research, Williamstown, Mass., USA, provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value 2009-13, and forecast to 2018). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. The report Includes market size data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies, and macroeconomic information.

Report highlights include: 

• The market for the consumption of wrapping and paper packaging includes the following: vegetable parchment, greaseproof and glassine paper; paper or paperboard used as facing material on corrugated or solid paper or paperboard boxes and containers; fluting medium, sack kraft paper, folding boxboard, and other wrapping and packaging paper and paperboard. The market is segmented by packaging end use.
• The European wrapping and paper packaging market had total revenues of $42,641.7 million in 2013, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.9% between 2009 and 2013.
• Market consumption volume increased with a CAGR of 2.3% between 2009-2013, to reach a total of 42,585.7 thousand metric tons in 2013.
• The performance of the market is forecast to follow a similar pattern with an anticipated CAGR of 4.8% for the five-year period 2013 - 2018, which is expected to drive the market to a value of $53,903.6 million by the end of 2018.

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