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$ 2.68 Billion growth expected in Folding Carton Market in North America | 4.55% YOY growth in 2021 amid COVID-19 Spread | US to Notice Maximum Growth | Technavio

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NEW YORK, May 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The folding carton market in North America by end-user (food and beverage products, homecare and personal products, healthcare products, tobacco products, and others) and geography (the US, Canada, and Mexico) has been added to Technavio's offering. The folding carton market is expected to grow by USD 2.68 billion, registering a CAGR of about 5% during 2021-2025.

Technavio has announced its latest market research report titled Folding Carton Market in North America by End-user and Geography - Forecast and Analysis 2021-2025
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The rise in the number of COVID-19 cases led to the shutdown of several manufacturing units, including the manufacturing plants of folding cartons in North America. Also, the disruptions in the supply chain caused by the pandemic limited the availability of raw materials and workforce in the market. However, the increasing demand from the healthcare and food and beverages industries for packaging and transporting a wide range of products is expected to reduce the impact caused by the pandemic on the market in 2021.

The market is expected to be driven by factors such as the increasing use of eco-friendly materials in packaging, the emergence of specialized folding cartons, and the growth in the retail segment and e-commerce in North America.

The report also offers information on the upcoming trends and challenges that will influence market growth.
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Folding Carton Market in North America: Opportunities

The growing demand for F&B and homecare products in North America is encouraging manufacturers of food products and homecare products to launch new products. For instance, in November 2018, the New Standard Beer Company in Canada launched its product, New Standard Original Lager. The rise in the number of such product launches is creating a strong demand for folding cartons that provide flexibility and ensure the safety of products. Many such factors are expected to offer significant growth opportunities in the folding carton market during the forecast period.

Folding Carton Market in North America: Segmentation by End-user

Based on the segmentation by end-user, the market generated maximum revenue in the food and beverage products segment in 2020. The segment is driven by the increasing demand for cereals, dry food, frozen foods, candies and confectionaries, dairy products, refrigerated meat, wine, juices, beer, and other F&B products. Also, the launch of new F&B products is contributing to the growth of the folding carton market in North America.

Folding Carton Market in North America: Segmentation by Geography

The US held the largest market share in 2020 and the market growth in the region is expected to be faster compared to the growth of the market in other regions. The growth of the market in the US can be attributed to the growth of the food and beverage and healthcare industries. Also, the growth in the number of pharmaceutical companies and the growing demand for online shopping among people across the country will foster the growth of the folding carton market in the US during the forecast period.

One of the fortune 500 companies had used the detailed research report on the folding carton market and had decided to increase their market share in the US region which offers the highest market opportunities during the forecast period.

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Folding Carton Market in North America: Major Vendors

Amcor Plc

The company offers flexible and rigid packaging solutions to end-users globally. The company offers packaging solutions for various products such as food, beverage, healthcare, homecare, personal care, pet care, and specialty cartoon.

Arkay Packaging

The company manufactures folding cartons for health & beauty products, pharmaceutical products, structural design, in-house design capabilities, fulfillment packaging, and F-flute packaging.

Bell Packaging Ltd.

The company offers many packaging types such as Auxillary products, folding carton packaging solution, Retran and Jetran packaging, jetbox and end caps. Biojet, Retran, Jetbox, endcaps, and others are the key products offered by the company.

Edelmann Group

The company offers various products through its GP packaging solutions segment which includes bleached board, Containerboard & Kraft, and Corrugated.

Georgia-Pacific LLC

The offers various types of folding packaging such as strength packaging, Standard folding cartons, Multipack cartons, Hybrid packaging, enhanced packaging, produce packaging, wrap and clip style multipacks, and custom packaging.

Along with the market data, Technavio offers customizations as per the specific needs of companies. The following customization options are available for the folding carton market report:

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  • Detailed analysis and profiling of additional market players, vendor segmentation, and vendor offerings.

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Executive Summary

Market Landscape

  • Market ecosystem

  • Value chain analysis

Market Sizing

  • Market definition

  • Market segment analysis

  • Market size 2020

  • Market outlook: Forecast for 2020 - 2025

Five Forces Analysis

  • Five Forces Summary

  • Bargaining power of buyers

  • Bargaining power of suppliers

  • Threat of new entrants

  • Threat of substitutes

  • Threat of rivalry

  • Market condition

Market Segmentation by End-user

  • Market segments

  • Comparison by End-user

  • Food and beverage products - Market size and forecast 2020-2025

  • Homecare and personal products - Market size and forecast 2020-2025

  • Healthcare products - Market size and forecast 2020-2025

  • Tobacco products - Market size and forecast 2020-2025

  • Others - Market size and forecast 2020-2025

  • COVID-19 impact and recovery for end-user segments

  • Market opportunity by End-user

Customer landscape

Geographic Landscape

  • Geographic segmentation

  • Geographic comparison

  • US - Market size and forecast 2020-2025

  • Canada - Market size and forecast 2020-2025

  • Mexico - Market size and forecast 2020-2025

  • Market opportunity by geography

  • Market drivers

  • Market challenges

  • Market trends

Vendor Landscape

  • Vendor landscape

  • Landscape disruption

  • Competitive Scenario

Vendor Analysis

  • Vendors covered

  • Market positioning of vendors

  • Amcor Plc

  • Arkay Packaging

  • Bell Packaging Ltd.

  • Edelmann Group

  • Georgia-Pacific LLC

  • Graphic Packaging Holding Co.

  • Imperial Printing & Paper Box Mfg. Co.

  • International Paper Co.

  • Smurfit Kappa Group Plc

  • WestRock Co.

Appendix

  • Scope of the report

  • Currency conversion rates for US$

  • Research methodology

  • List of abbreviations

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    (Bloomberg) -- It took decades for sustainable investing to become mainstream, but now every week one giant investor after another announces their commitment to ESG.Kenneth Dart will not be joining that club.The billionaire is heir to a plastic cup fortune. More than two decades ago he renounced his U.S. citizenship and moved to the Caribbean, becoming the biggest real estate owner in the Cayman Islands. For years he invested in distressed sovereign debt with Argentina’s former President Cristina Kirchner calling him a “vulture.”And over the past six months Dart, 66, has quietly accumulated one of the classic sin investments. Through a Cayman Islands vehicle called Spring Mountain Investments, Dart has built a 7% stake in British American Tobacco that’s now worth $6 billion. Last month, Spring Mountain disclosed a separate $634 million position in rival Imperial Brands. The Financial Times first reported the firm’s tobacco investments.A small portion of the positions were entered into using total return swaps, the filings show. These types of swaps were at the center of the March implosion of family office Archegos Capital Management, causing billions in bank losses.Tobacco WagerSpring Mountain is the latest in a series of entities the publicity-shy Dart has used to buy securities. He previously set up Portfolio Services Ltd., Seneca Investments, EM Ltd., Eastern Capital and LBS Investments. In recent years these have been used to invest in obscure biotechnology stocks that make up a fraction of his fortune, estimated at $6.6 billion by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.Susanna de Saram, a representative of Dart’s firm Dart Enterprises, declined to comment on investment decisions.Dart’s tobacco wager goes against one of the hottest trends in finance: Investing in companies that focus on environmental, social and governance factors, which in theory means corporations have long-term sustainable prospects.The tobacco industry has for decades been the antithesis of ESG investment. Dominated by a few corporate behemoths, the companies operate in a market at risk of being quashed by regulation or customers giving up -- or dying from -- the habit.Michael Bloomberg, founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News parent Bloomberg LP, has been a longtime champion of tobacco-control efforts.While a larger group of investors are shunning the stocks, it can create opportunities for those less concerned with the societal outcomes of their portfolio.Dividend YieldsTobacco stocks “were a one-way ticket up until around 2016” before concerns about new regulation, especially in the U.S., began discouraging investors, according to Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Duncan Fox.Over the past five years, the MSCI World Tobacco Index has dropped 32%. That’s punished long-term holders, but has juiced the dividends the stocks pay. British American Tobacco and Imperial Brands have dividend yields exceeding 8%.Investors may also be overstating the regulatory risks -- after all the firms have experience adapting to and profiting under new regulations --and there’s potential growth in alternative tobacco products and the new cannabis markets, Fox said.Still, there’s a reason why so many investors shun the stocks.“Smoking has been in decline for the past five decades because of what we call the ESG Squeeze: pressures from societal attitudes, regulation, and taxation,” Citigroup Inc. analyst Adam Spielman wrote in March. In 10 to 20 years there could be no smokers left in many markets, according to Jefferies analyst Owen Bennett.Read more: Smoking may disappear within a generation, analysts predictDart has made successful contrarian bets in the past. He made billions from companies such as Salomon Inc., Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., and in troubled sovereign debt, according to a 1995 Businessweek profile.Trained as a chemical engineer, he’s long been focused on his investment portfolio instead of the family business, Dart Container, where he no longer has a role or ownership. Mason, Michigan-based Dart Container is run by his brother, Robert Dart.In recent years Dart’s focus seemed to shift from markets to property development, primarily in the Cayman Islands, where he’s made his home. Dart Real Estate has developed $1.5 billion in projects, including hotels, office buildings and residential complexes, according to its website.(Updates with total return swaps in fifth paragraph, Dart Enterprises’ response in seventh.)For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.

  • France' STMicro sees no reason to take part in EU chip alliance

    Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicroelectronics sees no reason to join a potential European Union semiconductors alliance, its chief executive said on Tuesday, as the European Commission is seeking to boost Europe's independence in microchips. CEO Jean-Marc Chéry told BFM Business that the Commission's initiative is a positive development but added that his firm had no interest in taking part. STMicro produces a wide range of chips, from low-margin microcontrollers to more sophisticated sensors used in smartphones and autonomous vehicles.

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  • Nissan Follows Renault in Selling $1.4 Billion Daimler Stake

    (Bloomberg) -- Nissan Motor Co. is selling stock it owns in Daimler AG worth about 1.19 billion euros ($1.4 billion), joining its partner Renault SA in generating funds for turnaround efforts.Nissan is offering about 16.4 million shares through a sale run by BofA Securities and Societe Generale, according to terms obtained by Bloomberg News. Renault shed its Daimler stake in March, bringing in 1.14 billion euros.Like Renault, Nissan is trying to restore profitability and overhaul its portfolio after the 2018 arrest of their long-time leader Carlos Ghosn threw their alliance into disarray. Projects the two companies started with Daimler just over a decade ago were among the endeavors showing signs of stress before Nissan insiders orchestrated the former chairman’s downfall almost three years ago.Several of Ghosn and former Daimler Chairman Dieter Zetsche’s projects to jointly develop and produce vehicles turned into bruising experiences. Mercedes culled the X-Class pickup that was based on the Nissan Navara due to poor sales, and customers mocked the mediocre quality of the small Citan van that shared components with Renault. The collaboration the companies planned for a factory in Aguascalientes, Mexico, also didn’t pan out as initially planned.Ghosn and Zetsche regularly hosted joint press conferences at car shows before Japanese police arrested the former in late 2018 on suspicion of financial misconduct. Zetsche stepped down from his roles at Daimler the following year.Representatives for Nissan and Daimler didn’t immediately comment on the share sale. Daimler still holds 9.17 million shares of Renault, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.(Updates with value of the shares in the headline and first paragraph.)For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.

  • Bombardier to Exit Alstom Stake With $630 Million Share Sale

    (Bloomberg) -- Bombardier Inc. is selling its stake in Alstom SA in a deal that would generate proceeds of more than $630 million at current market prices.The offering has gathered enough investor demand to cover the sale, according to terms seen Tuesday by Bloomberg. Price guidance will follow and such accelerated offerings typically come at a discount. After completion of the sale, Bombardier said it expects to have exited its 3.1% stake in Alstom’s common stock.The deal comes on the heels of Bombardier’s sale of its train-making business to Alstom for about $3.6 billion. That transaction included the stake in the French company that Bombardier is selling. Separately, Bombardier has exited its regional-jet business and now focuses on making private planes.The Montreal-based company asked creditors Monday to approve changes to terms on eight bond issues after an unidentified noteholder argued that asset sales including the rail and commercial-aircraft deals violated covenants on debt maturing in 2034.Bombardier fell 2.1% to 93 Canadian cents at 12:42 p.m. in Toronto amid a broad market decline. Alstom was little changed at 45.83 euros at the close in Paris.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.

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