Market Data

PACKAGING DIRECT EXPORTS

According to the study made to ABRE by Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV/RJ), the Brazilian Packaging Industry had a revenue of US$ 18 billion in 2007. The value is 2.1% bigger than 2006 and represents, approximately, 1.4% of the annual Brazilian GNP. To 2008 the expectative is an increase of 2.5% in the packaging production and a revenue of US$ 20 billion.

PERFORMANCE OF THE PACKAGING INDUSTRY

The performance of the packaging is checked by the production. To confirm the packaging industry reaction, that since the 2º semester of the last year is obtaining indices of growth, the packaging production increased 2.1% in 2007, the biggest rate since 2004.

PARTICIPATION OF PACKAGING MATERIALS IN THE MARKET

The market participation of each packaging material presents a small variation by the years of development of FGV study for ABRE. From 2006, it was possible to do the division in paper and cardboard segments. These information was gotten in base of ABRE's indices.

FORMAL JOB

According to the Labour Ministry information, RAIS (Annual Relation of Social Information - 2006) and CAGED (General Register of Employees and Unemployed - 2007), the job in the packaging industry increased 4.3% in 2007. Today there are 195.711 formal jobs. The Southeast is the region that concentrated most of these employees: 58.5%

EXPORTATION

The direct exports achieved an increase of 23,54% in 2006 comparing to the previous year and the turnover was US$ 376.41 million. The empty packaging imports had a growth of 31.31% and the plastic industry had the best performance: 66.4%. Metal packaging achieved 17.5%.

The commercial balance of the sector is positive as exports counted for US$ 376.741 million, in 2006, against US$ 291.660 million of imports

IMPORTATION