(It still runs international services to destinations in these countries).The EC will have to examine not only the nature of the international express-package market today, but also how it is changing.
Still, UPS expects its small-package market, which was flat for the first quarter, to perform better than the U.S. gross domestic product in 2007.
This paper presents challenges in the paper-and-board packaging market which is counted 39% of the European packaging market and 52% of the UK packaging market.
While the U.S. packaging market is mature, plenty of opportunities exist overseas.
The world packaging market was valued at $427 billion in 2003, growing at an annual rate of 3.5%% since 1999.
The World Packaging Organization (http://www.worldpackaging.org/i4a/doclibrary/index.cfm category_id=4) report presented in 2008 with global packaging market statistics shows packaging growth is tied to the world economy.
The global packaging market is estimated to be worth around 560 Billion USD in 2009, whereof around one third in Europe [36].
The Cergy facility will specialize in serving the European packaging market, and features state-of-the-art equipment developed to replicate actual manufacturing conditions.
Each of these approaches holds a share of the power packaging market, but they all demonstrate a limitation to conventional two dimensional "flat board" strategy.
