Publications

• Forging ahead
  Forging ahead

  Forging ahead is a quarterly analysis of global merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the metals industry. Each edition includes a review of overall deal activity for the quarter and year-to-date.
• Forging Ahead: Global Metals Deals 2013 outlook and 2012 review
  Forging Ahead: Global Metals Deals 2013 outlook and 2012 review

  Global Metals Deals annual review takes a look at the M&A landscape over the past year identifying the key themes and important drivers of deals activity. In our last report, we said that caution will be the watchword in 2012.
• Pressing on the accelerator – taking metals innovation to the next level
  Pressing on the accelerator – taking metals innovation to the next level

  Metals companies can be great at innovation but they’ll need to get better to keep up with future competition.

  6.9 MB PDF file | Free download
• Metals deals: Forging Ahead 2012 Outlook and 2011 Review
  Metals deals: Forging Ahead 2012 Outlook and 2011 Review

  2011 was bounce-back year for the metals industry with over 500 deals. Looking to 2012, prospects for US economic growth, Chinese real estate and construction, and eurozone developments will determine deal flow.

  1.1 MB PDF file | Free download
• 15th Annual Global CEO Survey: Metals industry insights
  15th Annual Global CEO Survey: Metals industry insights

  Key findings from Metals CEOs in PwC's CEO Survey show the economy, energy, raw materials as key worries, overshadowing talent concerns. Process innovation, risk management help them cope.
• Emergence of new examination approach - joint audits
  Emergence of new examination approach - joint audits

  Industrial companies with multinational operations need to take into account the potential risks and cost-saving rewards with respect to all taxing jurisdictions involved. PwC tax specialists discuss the key points in deciding whether to pursue a joint audit.

  288 KB PDF file | Free download
• Global industrial products tax alert - Green paper on the future of EU VAT
  Global industrial products tax alert - Green paper on the future of EU VAT

  On Dec 1, 2010, the EC issued a “Green Paper on the future of EU VAT – Towards a simpler, more robust and efficient VAT system”. This Green Paper provides a once in a lifetime opportunity for Industrial Products companies to submit comments to help shape future reforms.

  2.34 MB PDF file | Free download
• Metals deals: Forging ahead 2010 annual review
  Metals deals: Forging ahead 2010 annual review

  Metals Deals 2010 reviews deal activity in the metals industry. We examine the rationale behind the overall deal trends and look at the key individual deals. We analyse the year under review and look ahead to the future direction of deal-making in the sector. This year's edition highlights an interview with the CFO of Tata Steel, Koushik Chattergee, gaining his views on the M&A landscape and investment opportunities, and what key trends we can expect to see in the near future.

  1.3 MB PDF file | Free download
• Emerging conversations: Global Industrial Products tax alert. Changes to the OECD transfer pricing guidelines chapters I-III
  Emerging conversations: Global Industrial Products tax alert. Changes to the OECD transfer pricing guidelines chapters I-III

  In the first of a new series of global tax alerts, we help you to understand the changes to chapters I-III and the impacts we think they will have on global businesses in the industrial sectors.

  239 KB PDF file | Free download
• Metals and Mining in Russia and the CIS
  Metals and Mining in Russia and the CIS

  As in previous editions, this year’s review includes our financial analysis of the largest Russian, Ukrainian and Kazakh metals and mining companies that report under globally accepted standards (US GAAP or IFRS).

  1.49 MB PDF file | Free download
• Different shades of green? Industrial products climate change series
  Different shades of green? Industrial products climate change series (including a summary of metals sector climate change responses)

  PwC is pleased to launch a short thought leadership paper on the impact of the climate change agenda post Copenhagen and the business implications for our metals clients.

  382 KB PDF file | Free download
• Assessing tax: 2010 Tax rate benchmarking study for the metals industry
  Assessing tax: 2010 Tax rate benchmarking study for the metals industry

  Assessing tax is an annual benchmarking study that provides a detailed analysis of tax rate metrics and the drivers of these ratios for the metals industry. This study provides our metals clients with insight into average key tax ratios for the different industries, trends in these ratios over the last three years, and drivers of the ratios. This year's report also includes a special article that discusses several of the Obama administration's tax proposals and their potential impact on the industries.

  1.7 MB PDF file | Free download
• 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.

  2.4 MB PDF file | Free download
• Navigation: Managing commodity risk through market uncertainty
  Navigation: Managing commodity risk through market uncertainty

  Commodity price volatility not only threatens the survival of individual companies, but also puts entire markets and industries at risk.

  325 KB PDF file | Free download