STATISTICS
up-to-date on current market trends. Services included regular monthly and quarterly sales statistics for various market sectors, the monthly Raw Material Prices Survey as well as the more detailed Annual Performance Assessment.
Industry Statistics O
ur ongoing programme of business and statistical information continued in 2010 with the aim of keeping companies
The aim continues to be to provide practical and timely information that meets the needs of member companies while at the same time not imposing an onerous administrative burden on the providers of
data.The work itself is carried out independently for the BCF by Whittle Industry Data who specialise in producing confidential market surveys for trade
associations.They work closely with member companies, with the BCF’s Sector Councils and Market Groups to ensure the reports meet member requirements while retaining complete confidentiality during data collection and processing.
Paints and Coatings
For the paint and coatings sector, 3 main services are provided, namely: l Monthly Sales Statistics l Raw Material Prices Survey l Annual Performance Assessment
The Monthly Sales Statistics cover the key markets of decorative paints, woodcare and industrial coatings and aim to provide a broad overview of these sectors with regular bulletins showing sales trends for decorative paint retail and trade, woodcare and selected industrial coatings markets. Current industrial markets include high performance coatings, marine and ‘all other industrial coatings’. Exports are also covered.
Quarterly market statistics cover some of the more specialist sectors in more detail including
Our Annual Performance Assessment is a once a year publication that provides an overview of the state of the industry focusing on subjects such as profitability, costs, employee numbers, productivity and asset
utilisation.The report provides a long term and consistent measure of key industry
trade paints, marine, coil coatings and woodcare. These services are tailor made for each market group and reflect the often more detailed requirements of these groups.
On the raw materials front, regular monthly surveys were produced helping companies to see how price trends are changing and how their own purchase prices compare with industry average levels.
indicators such as profit on sales, profit per employee, average costs per litre sold for raw materials, personnel costs, sales volume and value sold per employee, average debtor days and new investment.
Printing Inks
Through our links with EuPIA – the European Printing Ink Manufacturers Association – BCF member companies are able to take part in EuPIA’s detailed market report on the European industry covering some 30 separate countries. These statistics cover all the main product markets including liquid inks, news inks, heatset, sheetfed and publication gravure.
Latest results available to the end of Q3 2010 show the market generally flat but with improved results coming through for liquid inks and sheetfed sales as well as some of the more specialist areas of energy cured inks.
Wallcoverings
The Wallcoverings Sector Council continued to monitor the state of the market in the UK through its Quarterly Sales Statistics service. This looks at the UK market by product sector and includes a separate analysis of imports into the UK. Plans are progressing to improve the coverage of the service and these are being put underway in Q1 2011.
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British Coatings Federation Annual Handbook & Membership Directory 2011
www.coatings.org.uk
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