China Looking Inwards for Strength – An Opportunity for Global Lubricant Majors

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Kline Blogs

As a logistical consequence of China’s vast exporting, manufacturing facilities tended to be coastal; however, in an effort to offset declining exports, China is increasingly shifting to a domestic consumption-driven economy and investing significant resources in developing infrastructure within the country’s interior thus encouraging companies to expand and establish a presence to service what were until recently low priority domestic needs. This realignment affords both opportunities and challenges.

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Acquiring Beauty – Future M&A Trends and Drivers Across the Personal Care Value Chain

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Kline Blogs

While 2011 ended in uncertainty, Kline’s Eric Vogelsberg sees the M&A environment as remaining fundamentally strong and fecund, with the personal care sector being particularly robust.

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Skin Care: A Beauty Spot in Barcelona – Nikola Matic on the Specialty Actives Market

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Kline Blogs

Kline’s Nikola Matic, drawing upon many years of extensive and international market-research, will be at in-cosmetics Barcelona on April 17, 2012 where he’ll share timely specialty actives insights and trends gleaned from Kline’s recently published report Specialty Actives in Personal Care 2011: Multi-Regional Market Analysis and Opportunities.

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Personal Care Shopping: Beauty is Increasingly in the Eye of the Beholder of a Computer Mouse

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Kline Blogs

The savvy shopper of today often doesn’t bother making a trip to a drug or department store when the products they want to buy are just a few clicks away.

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Global lubricant consumption – Where are we going?

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Kline Blogs

The economic rollercoaster ride of the past three years has generated a debate on the nature of lubricant demand and its growth in context of economic growth. Does lubricant demand growth track GDP growth rate? Can we define a relation between GDP growth and lubricant growth? Has the lubricant market grown at all in the last 10 to 15 years?

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The Specialty Trap – Managing Hybrid Commodity/Specialty Businesses

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Kline Blogs

Commodity and specialty businesses have disparate needs and markets, and consequently a danger lies in attempting to consolidate these and falling into what authors Jonathan Goldhill, Sergio Rebello and Sunanda Desai deem the ‘specialty trap’.

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Kline wins Agrow Award for Best Supporting Role

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Kline Blogs

Last night at the Marriott Hotel in London there was a prestigious awards ceremony to honor corporate and individual excellence in the crop protection and production industry. Kline won the 2011 Agrow Award for ‘best supporting role’, i.e. best service provider to the industry. Our submission is attached. We were in good company, with Dow [...]

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While Asian Markets Hum, North American and European Markets Grind; Shell Remains the Global Lubricant Market Leader, According to Kline

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Kline Blogs

Kline’s study finds that overall, global lubricant demand increased by an estimated 6% over 2009, but still trails pre-recession levels.

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WEBINAR: Specialty Pesticides Educational Series

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Kline Blogs

As we have recently completed some of our most popular reports, we felt it would be a good time for us to share a few of our findings with you. Starting Wednesday October 12, 9:00 EDT we will be sharing valuable crop protection data and insights from our latest reports.

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WEBINAR: Agricultural Pesticides Educational Series

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Kline Blogs

As we have recently completed some of our most popular reports, we felt it would be a good time for us to share a few of our findings with you. Starting Tuesday October 11, 9:00 EDT we will be sharing valuable crop protection data and insights from our latest reports.

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