Publications

A selection of publications and thought leadership is available to forest, paper and packaging companies in the UK:

Sustainable Packaging: Threat or opportunity?, January 2010
Under constant pressure from government, the media, customers and consumers, the packaging industry is increasingly being forced to consider how its products can be made more sustainable. Faced with pressing issues of over capacity, low prices and high raw material costs, should 'sustainable packaging' be a top concern for packaging senior executives? Will the issue have any real, lasting impact on how the industry does business, and how will packaging shape up?

CEO Perspectives: Viewpoints of CEOs in the forest, paper & packaging industry worldwide, January 2010
The economic crisis exacerbated existing market declines and precipitated steep drops in demand in many forest, paper and packaging companies.  It's clear the industry needs to reshape itself to meet future challenges - but how?  The third edition of CEO Perspectives in FPP summarises the thoughts of 33 CEOs from the forest, paper & non-paper packaging sectors around the world. 

PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Annual Forest, Paper & Packaging Survey
This survey benchmarks the financial performance of the PwC Top 100 forest, paper and paper-based packaging companies around the world. It includes a write-up of our global industry conference which takes places annually in Vancouver.

Risks & Rewards - Forest, Paper & Packaging in South America
This third publication in the Risks and Rewards series looks at forest, paper & packaging in South America. With the lowest wood costs of any leading producer region, South America looks set to become the dominant producer of pulp globally.

Risks & Rewards - forest, paper & packaging in Russia
Addresses the state of the industry in Russia and reflects on the key considerations anyone thinking of investing in the sector there should make. It explores the risks and rewards of doing business in Russia.