O-I Glass is the world’s largest manufacturer of glass packaging, with a particular emphasis on glass beverage containers. The glass landscape faces significant challenges in the years ahead, including weak consumption growth in certain regions in some key categories, such as alcoholic drinks, the need for greater sustainability, and fierce competition from alternative pack types like rigid plastic and metal. O-I is reshaping its strategy and operations to meet to these challenges.

Ball Corp is the leading manufacturer of metal beverage can packaging globally. The company has a particularly strong presence in the Americas and Europe. Ball Corp is well positioned to address the sustainability trend in fmcg packaging, thanks to the infinitely recyclable nature of aluminium, with the company reaching a 74% rate for average recycled content globally in 2024 and 52% of its cans using the weight-optimised STARcan design.

The global FMCG market is projected to grow by 4.6% in current value terms to reach USD6.6 trillion. Growth is largely price led and financial concerns are weighing heavily on consumer behaviour given sustained cost-of-living pressures. Opportunities lie in emerging markets, health and wellness trends, and e-commerce. Key growth industries include soft drinks and beauty and personal care.

The briefing examines how the hi-tech goods industry is performing globally and in the largest countries in terms of hi-tech goods output. The report also provides data for production, market size, imports, exports, industry costs, industry profitability and number of companies. The industry and market overview provide benchmarks against other countries in the region.

Paper-based packaging is gaining momentum as a renewable packaging choice, driven by consumer preferences and brand strategies. Increasing environmental scrutiny and regulatory pressure presents opportunities and a clear need to optimise sustainable solutions. This report examines the rise of paper packaging, its environmental credentials and reveals how to navigate evolving regulatory, technological and trading challenges, to secure its place in a waste-conscious, circular economy.

Consumers no longer assess brands by price alone but by a shifting matrix of priorities – from health and convenience to sustainability and digital experience. As disruptors – including new platforms and non-traditional players – move faster and intensify competition, companies across industries must recalibrate their value strategies to maintain relevance, defend market share, and capture new growth opportunities.

Wellness trends are exerting an increasingly important role in the packaging industry. Many of the categories seeing demand rise the most quickly are strongly influenced by wellness and concerns such as microplastic contamination threatened to cause significant shifts in what sort of pack types consumers are looking for in the coming years.

This report identifies key long-term megatrends shaping consumer behaviour in Latin America. Technological advancements and wider internet access drive digital living, offering solutions to regional challenges. Better access to financial services fuels e-commerce and s-commerce growth. Inflation and changing household dynamics are driving consumers to focus on saving time and money, while also prioritising their overall wellbeing in the face of economic and geopolitical uncertainty.

Significant shifts in US policies on tariffs, taxation, spending, regulation, migration, AI/tech, and energy are expected to impact the global economy and key industries like food and drinks, health and beauty, home and tech, travel, and automotive. Trump's policies can undermine global economic growth, affect consumer sentiment, risk higher prices, and disrupt production and distribution network. However, some opportunities will arise as the global supply chain rewires and consumers adapt.

This report highlights key trends in the global industrial sector in 2025. Rising geopolitical tensions and potential trade disruptions are creating more uncertainty for businesses, encouraging further production reshoring efforts. To deal with cost pressures and labour market challenges, companies are expected to invest more in automation and workforce upskilling. AI tools are also forecast to improve in 2025 and start bringing efficiency gains for manufacturers.

By 2029, Asia Pacific will host 56% of the global population aged 65+, representing a trillion-dollar opportunity. This report provides a critical framework to understand, develop and address the unmet needs of this rapidly growing demographic. Leveraging Euromonitor's Inclusivity - Empowerment - Indulgence framework, companies that act now will secure future growth and maintain relevance in a shifting consumer landscape.

This briefing delves into how regulatory measures are driving packaging transformation, emphasising recyclability, waste reduction and reuse/refill initiatives. It explores evolving communication trends that align with consumer preferences, and highlights the latest international regulations impacting sustainable packaging, giving FMCG companies a clear roadmap to successfully navigate the complexities of sustainable packaging amidst rising scrutiny.

Digital Living, Convenience, Pursuit of Value and Sustainable Living are key megatrends in Western Europe, shaped by technological advancements, demographic changes and shifting consumer values. Demand for multifunctional products is driving brands to simplify and optimise. Despite privacy concerns, AI-driven personalisation is gaining acceptance. Value perceptions are shifting toward functionality and affordability, while sustainability continues to influence purchasing choices.

Tetra Laval Group remains one of the leading producers of consumer goods packaging globally, with a strong presence in liquid cartons, which dominate its sales. Dynamic growth has been seen in emerging markets, which offer interesting new growth opportunities for the company. This profile analyses the group’s strategic responses to the challenges it faces, as well as examining opportunities for further expansion in the food and beverage categories in which it operates.

Changes in the US trade policy impact a broad range of trade partners and goods and adds more uncertainty to the global economy. US importers have limited trade diversification potential, with higher trade tariffs leading to higher inflationary pressures. Retaliatory tariffs would also hurt US exporters, especially in commodity and automotive industries.

The consumer packaging industry records growth within a climate of subdued consumption as cost-of-living pressures persist. Innovative approaches to pack sizing, going smaller and bigger, give choice to consumers to preserve affordability and brand growth. The key driver of industry innovation is the development of renewable packaging solutions to foster circularity and reduce virgin material use. Regulators’ policy targets add impetus to action while digital tech holds the potential to transfor

Metal packaging continues to be an important, and growing, pack type in Asia Pacific, led by metal beverage cans for soft and alcoholic drinks, which accounted for the bulk of new metal packaging sales in the region over 2018-2023. While metal bottles have been enjoying a boom in the Chinese beer market, metal food cans remain the next-biggest pack type, still widely employed in a number of shelf stable food categories.

This report explores innovative approaches in sustainability across key supply chain stages – sourcing, manufacturing, packaging, logistics and retail. It highlights the most innovative industries and products leveraging the right sustainability claims that align with consumers’ preferences and sustainable attitudes. This comprehensive view reveals how innovative sustainable brands and products are seizing new opportunities and gaining a competitive edge.

This report outlines the top five loyalty trends expected to have a significant impact on businesses and consumers in 2025. It highlights the tactics that should be embraced to improve business margins, enhance customer engagement and foster brand advocacy.

Crown is a leading manufacturer of metal packaging, with a particular focus on beverage cans. Metal packaging benefits from strong sustainability perceptions and beverage cans are popular across many alcoholic and soft drinks categories. However, Crown is also facing significant challenges in the years ahead, given the maturity of key categories, competition from alternative glass and plastic packaging, and the risk that financial pressures could continue to impact consumption behaviour.

The packaging industry records volume growth, driven principally by developing regions of Asia Pacific and Latin America as demand in Western Europe and North America has slowed under cost-of-living pressures. Improving design circularity across packaging materials to reduce environmental waste is a lead trend set to run through brand pack development and regulation. Adopting solutions that alleviate cost pressures, proffer efficiencies and engage will also resonate.

Asia Pacific accounts for the bulk of the world’s waste, especially plastics used heavily in beverages, thus there is a pressing need for beverage companies in the region to invest in sustainable packaging. This report analyses consumer trends and regulatory developments regarding sustainability in Asia Pacific, with case studies considering beverage companies’ strategies for achieving greater sustainability.

Following years of challenges inhibiting launch activity, due to stockouts, SKU rationalisations and product framework optimisations, manufacturers are now ambitious about providing value to consumers through healthier, more sensorial, and culturally inclusive products. Leveraging the power of marketing, new occasions and promotions, brands and private label alike are intent on launching new products that align more closely to consumer values.

While glass accounts for only around a tenth of overall packaging unit volumes in Western Europe, it is responsible for 70% of alcoholic drinks packaging. Glass bottles make up two thirds of beer packaging and dominate in wine and spirits. While glass continues to lose share to other pack types, including metal beverage cans and rigid plastic, the recyclable and often premium nature of glass will help to broadly maintain its usage levels.