Fast-moving consumer goods
Your guide to commodity market trends and pricing dynamics for pulp, paper, packaging and agricultural commodities
Our FMCG customers get access to in-depth price data and short- and long-term forecasting and analysis for the following raw materials:
- Agriculture: Animal fats, oils and proteins, grains and oilseeds, vegetable oils
- Forest products: Graphic paper, paper packaging, pallets, pulp, recovered paper, timber, tissue
- Metals and mining: Base metals, steel
We continue to expand our coverage as the global CPG market and the needs of the consumer evolve.
Rising costs, volatile prices
Price volatility is nothing new for procurement professionals familiar with the vagaries of global commodity markets. And yet, recent price volatility is straining material management processes and squeezing margins to an unprecedented degree. Procurement professionals must strike a delicate balance between profitability and affordability (for their customers).
Fastmarkets arms procurement teams with insights to help them anticipate and hedge against price risk, understand and anticipate changing costs, and better manage supplier relationships.
The cost of sustainability
While sustainability is increasingly important, it often comes with higher costs. Buyers face the challenge of substituting more sustainable materials while keeping costs in check. Procurement teams are asked to assess suppliers not just on cost and reliability, but on emissions and other ESG factors, too.
Fastmarkets’ rich industry data sets, reporting of packaging and sustainability trends and analytical tools help FMCG manufacturers to identify suppliers that meet their criteria, including carbon emissions profiles at the producer and plant level.
Supply chain disruption
Every link of the consumer goods supply chain has been tested to its limits recently. When the business turns to the planning and strategy team to predict the market’s next move, that team turns to Fastmarkets.
Fastmarkets equips FMCG manufacturers with up-to-date market analysis, coverage of the latest news and trends moving the market and access to experts. Our in-depth analysis of the FMCG value chain includes cost differentials as well as prices, forecasts and the impact of policy and regulation for Latin America, North America, Europe and Asia.
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Commodities covered: Softwood, hardwood, paper packaging, pallets, recovered paper, tissue, nonwovens, pulp, base metals, steel
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Commodities covered: Paper packaging, recovered paper, pulp, nonwovens, wood products, base metals, steel and steel raw materials
5- and 15-year forecasts underpinned by deep industry expertise, macroeconomic analysis and 50 years of historical data.
Commodities covered: Paper packaging, pulp, wood products
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FCMG manufacturers have long relied on Fastmarkets’ price data, news and analysis to inform their procurement strategies, achieve win-win outcomes in negotiations with suppliers and manage price risk.
- Fastmarkets has more than 100 years’ experience in analyzing and pricing commodity markets.
- We hold benchmark prices in aluminium, pulp, recovered paper and many other key materials.
- We’ve got more than 500 team members worldwide, with price reporters on the ground in key markets, as well as analysts and editorial teams who are researching and reporting on shifting market dynamics.
Fastmarkets’ toolkit for FMCG manufacturers to get ahead of volatility including checklists for those working as procurement professionals in various sectors.
Our team of commodity market experts and price reporters provide weekly prices and market analysis for the fast-moving consumer goods industry.
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