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Beverage Packaging in Spain

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Euromonitor International's Beverage Packaging in Spain offers insight into the market at a national level. It provides analysis of the packaging trends in each beverage sector (alcoholic drinks, hot drinks and soft drinks) and monitors market performance by pack type including industry penetration levels, end-use applications and potential growth categories. Five year forecasts illustrate how the market is set to change.

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Chapters: 9  |  Tables: 24  |  Publication date: Jan 2007
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Table of contents

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Spanish market: growth of economic activity

Traditional packaging continues to dominate

Two different channels

2. BEVERAGE PACKAGING TRENDS

2.1 MARKET COMPOSITION AND PERFORMANCE

Glass bottles penetrates the Spanish beverage market

PET bottles continues to growYet some issues remain unresolved

Metal beverage cans can

Liquid cartons stay healthy

and stable despite threats from PET

Flexible aluminium/plastic comfortable within hot drinks

Table 1 Beverage Packaging by Pack Type 2005

Chart 1 Beverage Packaging by Pack Type: % Breakdown 2005

2.2 ALCOHOLIC DRINKS

No doubt – glass bottles is the hero in alcoholic drinks

Metal beverage cans continues the race in beer

PET bottles saw the light in beer and FABs

New developments in off-trade beer

Bag-in-box and brick-shape liquid cartons – alliance in low quality wine and spirits

Regulations prevent packaging innovations in spirits

Table 2 On-trade vs Off-trade Alcoholic Drinks Packaging by Pack Type 2005

Chart 2 Total Alcoholic Drinks Packaging by Pack Type: % Growth 2004/2005

2.3 SOFT DRINKS

Soft drinks more healthy

PET bottles continues its expansion quest

Growing demand for functional drinks favours metal beverage cans

Carbonates look for new face

backed by multipack sales

Table 3 On-trade vs Off-trade Soft Drinks Packaging by Pack Type 2005

Chart 3 Total Soft Drinks Packaging by Pack Type: % Growth 2004/2005

2.4 HOT DRINKS

Discrete growth with dependence on chocolate-based drinks

Coffee sticks with standard packaging

Healthy use of folding cartons in tea

Plastic jars reliant on other hot drinks

Metal tins resists obvious decline

Table 4 Off-trade Hot Drinks Packaging by Pack Type 2005

Chart 4 Off-trade Hot Drinks Packaging by Pack Type: % Breakdown 2005

Chart 5 Off-trade Hot Drinks Packaging by Pack Type: % Growth 2004/2005

2.5 NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENTS

Increasing health & wellness trend drove innovations

Instant coffee – convenience drives innovation

New developments in glass bottles for water

New developments in metal beverage cans for soft drinks

Technology helps

Summary 1 New Beverage Packaging Developments 2005/2006

2.6 RETURNABLE VS NON-RETURNABLE

2.7 THE GIFT MARKET IN ALCOHOLIC DRINKS

Promotions with little future

2.8 TOTAL BEVERAGE PACKAGING FUTURE PERFORMANCE

PET's expansion to go against glass bottles

Glass bottles to rely on alcoholic drinks to stay in control

Metal beverage cans set to continue consolidation

No further variations in liquid cartons

Metal tins surrenders to folding cartons in hot drinks

Chart 6 Forecast Total Sales of Beverage Packaging by Pack Type: % Growth 2005-2010

2.9 POTENTIAL GROWTH CATEGORIES

PET bottles: high expectations in fruit/vegetable juice

New sizes in water

Metal beverage cans: the individual option

New packaging for new product concepts

Pouches in the Spanish market

Summary 2 Growth Potential in Beverage Packaging by Pack Type and Size 2005-2010

2.10 UNPACKAGED BEVERAGES

Unpackaged beverages in Spain are marginal

3. RIGID PLASTIC PACKAGING TRENDS

3.1 PERFORMANCE

Rigid plastic enjoys good performance thanks to PET

Table 5 Rigid Plastic Packaging by Pack Type and by End-use Application 2005

3.2 PET BOTTLES VS HDPE/OTHER PLASTIC BOTTLES

PET bottles no doubt the bread winner of rigid plastic family

Table 6 PET Bottles vs HDPE/Other Plastic Bottles 1998/2005/2010

3.3 MAJOR END-USE APPLICATIONS FOR PET BOTTLES

Bottled water and carbonates the leaders of the pack

Functional drinks and RTD tea – room for further expansion

Attempted expansion in alcoholic drinks is welcome

Table 7 PET Bottle Packaging by Major End-use Application

3.4 FUTURE PERFORMANCE

PET bottles is most popular beverage packaging

Plastic jars mainly used in chocolate-based hot drinks

Table 8 Forecast Consumption of Rigid Plastic Packaging by Pack Type: 2005-2010

Chart 7 Forecast Consumption of Rigid Plastic Packaging by Pack Type:% Growth 2005-2010

3.5 POTENTIAL GROWTH CATEGORIES

Fruit/vegetable juice consumption rising

The packages price trends to equalise

The future: PLA plastics

Summary 3 Growth Potential in Rigid Plastic Packaging by End-use Application 2005/2010

4. METAL PACKAGING TRENDS

4.1 PERFORMANCE

Metal beverage cans shows good growth

Metal bottles remains marginal, metal tins decreases

Chart 8 Historic Growth of Metal Beverage Cans by End-use Application 2004/2005

4.2 FUTURE PERFORMANCE

Metal packaging reduced to cans and kegs

Factors in favour of metal beverage cans

Factors against metal beverage cans

Table 9 Forecast Metal Packaging by End-use Application: 2005-2010

4.3 POTENTIAL GROWTH CATEGORIES

Beverage cans in functional drinks

Cans expected to continue to prevail in beer

Summary 4 Growth Potential in Metal Packaging by End-use Application 2005-2010

5. FLEXIBLE PACKAGING TRENDS

5.1 PERFORMANCE

Flexible packaging mainly used in fresh coffee

Table 10 Growth of Flexible Packaging by Pack Type 1998-2005 and 2005-2010

5.2 POUCHES

Pouches mainly for fresh coffee beans

Table 11 Performance of Pouches by End-use Application: 2005/2010

5.3 POTENTIAL GROWTH CATEGORIES

Fresh coffee almost exclusively in flexible packaging

The new specialities: instant coffee

Flexible packaging also introduced in tea

Summary 5 Growth Potential in Flexible Packaging by End-use Application: 2005-2010

6. GLASS PACKAGING TRENDS

6.1 PERFORMANCE

Wine and spirits loyal to glass

Beer refuses to give up on glass

Glass declined in some corners of soft drinks

Table 12 Glass Beverage Packaging by Pack Type and by End-use Application 2005

6.2 FUTURE PERFORMANCE

Wine and spirits will remain true to glass bottles

On-the-go consumption rallies against glass packaging

Table 13 Forecast Consumption of Glass Packaging: 2005-2010

6.3 POTENTIAL GROWTH CATEGORIES

Premium and foreign beer

Summary 6 Growth Potential in Glass Packaging by End-use Application 2005-2010

7. LIQUID CARTON PACKAGING TRENDS

7.1 INDUSTRY PENETRATION

Liquid cartons: basically fruit/vegetable juice

Lower quality wine: good performance for brick-shape liquid cartons

Nominal presence in the rest of soft drinks

Table 14 Liquid Carton Packaging by Pack Type and by End-use Application 2005

7.2 PERFORMANCE

Fruit/vegetable juice sees further expansion of gable-top liquid cartons

Liquid carton packaging in wine

7.3 POTENTIAL GROWTH CATEGORIES

New closure feature in brick-shape liquid cartons

Family vs on-the-go consumption

Summary 7 Growth Potential in Liquid Carton Packaging by End-use Application 2005-2010

8. MULTIPACK PACKAGING TRENDS

8.1 INDUSTRY PENETRATION

Important sales of multipack packaging

Multipack carbonates for cans and bottles

Multipacks of bottled water replace large plastic packaging

Multipack beer: cans and bottles

Multipack for wine: premium sales

Table 15 Penetration of Multipacks by Pack Type 2005

8.2 KEY TRENDS IN MULTIPACKS

The expansion of multipack

Carton multipacks continue to use glass bottles

Plastic rim applied carriers for metal beverage cans

8.3 POTENTIAL GROWTH CATEGORIES

Bottled water, beer, functional drinks and RTD tea: all potential growth areas

Shrink wrap, plastic rim applied carriers and fully enclosed carton

Summary 8 Growth Potential of Multipacks by End-use Application 2005-2010

9. BEVERAGES CLOSURES

Closures for liquid cartons

New closure for big sizes of bottled water

Sports caps for individual formats

Plastic screw closures for spirits

Metal crowns: the closure for individual glass bottles

Marginal plastic overcaps

Glass wine glass bottles loyal to cork

Table 16 Beverages Closures 2005

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