Datamonitor: Ten Trends to Watch in Packaged Goods in 2009
With 2009 nearly upon us, look for new product marketers to make the year interesting with beauty foods and drinks, detox products and concentrated liquid cleaners that cut costs and help the environment. Datamonitor’s Product Launch Analytics takes a look at these and other trends in consumer packaged goods for the coming year.
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Opportunity Knocks for Big Pharma in Credit Crunch
The primary consequence of the credit crunch for non-financial companies is the loss of access to cheap debt
The key impact of the credit crunch on the corporate world is the abrupt loss of cheap debt. During the late 1990s and 2000s companies across all industries have exploited easy access to cheap debt to amplify or ‘leverage’ their return to investors. However, triggered by the sub-prime crisis and the subsequent collapse of big name financial institutions, banks have no choice but to protect their own capital and stop lending – turning off this supply of cheap debt.
This leaves those companies that have taken on debt in the extremely uncomfortable position of having to either rapidly pay off their debts (‘deleveraging’) or re-secure new debt at much higher interest rates – potentially threatening the viability of the firm. Datamonitor believes that large pharmaceutical companies have wisely stayed out of the cheap debt game and as a result, the credit crunch will actually play out as a net positive for an industry much in need of good news, according to Datamonitor head of company analysis Dr. Chris Phelps. “Pharma companies are not only expected to weather the financial storm successfully but to also use this period to exploit their unique cash strength by embarking on an acquisition spree.”
Is Rx-to-OTC move right prescription to protect pharma revenues & cut healthcare costs?
With the growing cost of developing novel drugs combined with the fact that from year-to-year fewer such drugs are gaining regulatory approval, the use by pharmaceutical companies of lifecycle management (LCM) techniques is playing an ever-more important role in the increasingly cost-conscious pharma industry. According to an actual report "Rx-to-OTC Strategies: Maximizing the Commercial Potential of an Rx-to-OTC Switch" says Datamonitor pharmaceutical strategy senior analyst Alistair Sinclair:"Prescription to over-the-counter (Rx-to-OTC) switching is one such strategy employed to either enhance existing franchise revenues or protect branded revenues from generic competition. An Rx-to-OTC switch involves the reclassification of a prescription product as an OTC product by the relevant national regulatory authorizations."
Interconnection Consulting Group – Market Research with industryspecific one-stop solutions
Interconnection Consulting with headquarters in Vienna and Barcelona is an internationally operating company and offers industry- and companyspecific one-stop solutions. The company emphasises its industry competence which it proves every day by detailed market reports for more than 1000 customers in all regions of the world.
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Governments increasing spend on Customer Relationship Management solutions
Governments take to customer relationship management solutions to enhance constituent relations
Driven by the need to improve its management of constituent relationships, a new report from Datamonitor, “CRM and the Move to Constituent-Centric Government”, predicts that government spending on customer relationship management (CRM) technology solutions in the US, UK, Germany and France will grow from $2.9 billion in 2008 to $4.4 billion in 2013. In today’s commercially-oriented world, it has become a trend among public sector agencies to treat constituents as customers who expect top levels of service. (more…)
MSI – Specialist for Business to Business Market Research and Reports in Europe
Anyone looking for well-founded studies about building products, healthcare, business services or environment quickly encounters the report provider MSI (Marketing Research for Industry). MSI is an independent market research company being active on several European markets (D, GB, FR, E). Known for its accurate and up-to-date market informations MSI fills niche markets with its studies.
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China meets reports-research:
General Manager of CCM meets the reports-research`s CEOs for two day conversations in Cologne
Cologne, 26.6.2008. The meeting’s objectives were an increase and intensification of the cooperation between China Chemicals Market (CCM) International Limited, a Chinese Top report provider for the chemical market in China, and the online portal for market surveys and market research www.reports-research.com/ . The cooperation between both companies has been existing since April 2008.
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Commercial card market experiences rapid growth in Western Europe
Commercial cards represent the fastest-growing segment of the Western European payment card market, according to a new report from independent market analyst Datamonitor. The value of transactions carried out on commercial payment cards in Western Europe reached EURO87.1 billion in 2006, and is forecast to grow to EURO180.3 billion in 2011.
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Informed living: New Furniture Industry Study Provider
With melisdata another study provider from the furniture industry has joined to markt-studie.de – Germany`s greatest portal for market data. The provider offers substantiated market research in the fields of furniture, new trends, sortiments and positioning data, analyses of the retailers and of the products on offer in the German furniture market. So in the new year markt-studie.de is able to round off its range enhancing the numbers of providers.
Internationally acknowledged fairs like e.g. the furnishing fair imm Cologne (over 1.300 exhibitors from about 60 countries) and the Orgatec – the worldwide greatest office furniture fair – make Cologne to an important site for the furniture industry. On this account it was a logical step to present another study provider in this branch and and therefore further market data to the markt-studie.de customers.
Three, Two, One; eBay-Online Market Reports of the Colognian Consultig Agency BBE
Even an online-flea-market can get to this point: The available eBay-Online Market Report „Digital Reflex Cameras" kicks off the new product series of the Colognian consulting agency BBE. Here, actual data about the via eBay.de dealt products being perspicuously analyzed are making the online market more transparant. An market that incessantly growing market. Up to now, mostly the traditional mail-order companies are accessed. Then eBay and third the pure internet traders.