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Simplifying Your Industrial Business

Simplifying Your Industrial Business

Many industrial products companies are diverse businesses, with multiple divisions operating in a number of different countries and regions. These businesses often have a wide-ranging, complicated structure of legal entities supporting them.

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Global Forest and Paper Industry: Net Earnings Summary — Three months ended June 30th, 2009

Global Forest and Paper Industry: Net Earnings Summary — Three months ended June 30th, 2009

The second quarter of 2009 was characterized by continued weakness in commodity product pricing and low demand as the industry continued to weather the effects of the global economic downturn. Industry curtailments created sporadic demand for products, but not enough to sustain recovery. Pulp markets showed signs of improvement toward the end of the quarter as purchases from China increased.

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Global Annual Forest, Paper & Packaging Industry survey - 2009 edition

Global Annual Forest, Paper & Packaging Industry survey - 2009 edition

The goal of the Survey, now in its 12th year, is to provide insight into the major companies and an overview of the issues and events shaping the industry. This year’s Survey summarises the 2008 publicly available year-over-year financial information of the PwC Top 100, the 100 largest forest, paper and packaging (FPP) companies in the world, ranked by sales revenue.

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Forest, paper and packaging deals: Branching Out – 2008 Annual review

Forest, paper and packaging deals: Branching Out – 2008 Annual review

FPP Deals reviews in detail 2008 deal activity in the forestry, paper and fibre packaging sectors, and examines several related themes. The publication also focuses on deal activity by key regions, the success of deals and considers the likely outlook for industry consolidation.

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2009 Global Lumber/Sawn Wood Cost Benchmarking Report

2009 Global Lumber/Sawn Wood Cost Benchmarking Report

This report features delivered log and sawmilling cost data on actual 2008 results, as well as for Q1/2009, to assist in decision-making.

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Forest Industry: Application Review of IAS 41, Agriculture: The Fair Value of Standing Timber

Forest Industry: Application Review of IAS 41, Agriculture: The Fair Value of Standing Timber

This study reviews how fair value is being applied by forest owning companies using IFRS. It aims to provide insight into the key judgments that are made by preparers from around the world and highlights some of the difficulties as well as similarities and differences.

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Global Forest and Paper Industry: Net Earnings Summary — Three months ended September 30, 2008

Global Forest and Paper Industry: Net Earnings Summary — Three months ended September 30, 2008

This net earnings summary provides a regional comparative analysis of the forest and paper sector’s financial performance for the three-month period ending September 30, 2008.

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Global forest, paper & packaging industry survey: 2008 edition: Survey of 2007 results

Global forest, paper & packaging industry survey: 2008 edition: Survey of 2007 results

Now in its 11th year, our 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 in Vancouver in May 2008, which featured some of the new and evolving industry themes, notably bio-energy.

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Branching out: Global deal activity in the forest, paper & packaging industry: 2008 edition

Branching out: Global deal activity in the forest, paper & packaging industry: 2008 edition

Branching out reviews in detail 2007 deal activity in the forestry, paper and fibre packaging sectors, along with the first quarter of 2008, and examines several key new investment themes. The publication also focuses on deal activity by key regions, the success of deals and considers the likely outlook for industry consolidation.

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CEO perspectives in forest, paper & packaging: 2008 edition

CEO perspectives in forest, paper & packaging: 2008 edition

The second edition of CEO Perspectives in FPP from PricewaterhouseCoopers summarises the thoughts of 26 CEOs from the forest, paper & non-paper packaging sectors around the world on key issues facing the industry.

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Risks & rewards: Forest, paper & packaging in South America

Risks & rewards: Forest, paper & packaging in South America

Following our previous research papers into the key developing markets of China and Russia, this third publication 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.

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Growth*: Global forest, paper & packaging industry survey: 2007 edition: Survey of 2006 results

Growth*: Global forest, paper & packaging industry survey: 2007 edition: Survey of 2006 results

The annual Global forest, paper & packaging industry survey, now in its 10th year, tracks the financial performance of the PwC Top 100, the world's largest forest, paper, and paper-based packaging companies.

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Branching out: Global deals activity in the forest, paper & packaging industry

Branching out: Global deals activity in the forest, paper & packaging industry

The publication also focuses on deal activity by key regions, the success of deals and considers the likely outlook for 2007 and beyond.

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Risks & rewards: Forest, paper & packaging in Russia

Risks & rewards: Forest, paper & packaging in Russia

This 48-page analysis addresses the state of the industry in Russia and reflects on the key considerations companies thinking of investing in the sector there should make.

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Sustainability reporting in the forest, paper & packaging industry

Sustainability reporting in the forest, paper & packaging industry

For an industry like forest, paper and packaging that has often been the focus of negative media attention and public scrutiny for its environmental performance, sustainability reporting would seem to offer an ideal opportunity to improve transparency and demonstrate the industry's commitment to the broader suite of sustainability issues—but has this happened?

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Independent Chain of Custody Certification Standard 2005

Independent Chain of Custody Certification Standard 2005

To meet growing customer and stakeholder demands for assurance that wood, paper and building products come from forests that are responsibly managed, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has developed a new independent chain of custody certification standard.

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Applying international financial reporting standards in the forest, paper and packaging (FPP) industry

Applying international financial reporting standards in the forest, paper and packaging (FPP) industry

Listed forest, paper and packaging companies in the European Union are now required to comply with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for their group financial statements.

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