Market Trends of Contract Packaging and Fulfillment Service Industry
This section covers the major market trends shaping the Contract Packaging & Fulfillment Service Market according to our research experts:
Contract Packing is Expected to Witness Significant Growth
- Contract packing service holds one of the largest market shares in the studied market as it comprises of various operation ranging from Bottling/Filling, Packaging, Labeling, Wrapping, among other that are an essential part of contract packaging services. Also, the contract packing are divided into three parts- primary packaging, secondary packaging, and tertiary packaging.
- Primary packaging involves direct contact with the product or is the first packaging layer in which the product is enclosed, which enables the user to protect and preserve the product from external contamination, damage, and spoiling.
- Primary contract packaging provides 'mission-critical' capabilities that may be inaccessible to manufacturers, especially when it comes to projects that require short runs or frequent changeovers, such as new or niche products, or seasonal demand, that are usually outside of primary manufacturing economies.
- The primary packaging typically includes blister packs, clamshell packaging, paperboard packaging, unit dose packs, and shrink-wrapping. Players, such as the Wasdell Packaging Group, provide primary contract packaging services that include blister packing, container filling, strip packs, and sachet filling and packing.
- The rising demand from other end-user industries, such as food and beverages and personal care, for the primary packaging, has left the players to increase the production of their end products, thereby making it essential for them to reduce the time to markets by outsourcing the packaging activities. This is expected to boost the primary contract packaging market over the forecast period.
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Asia-Pacific to Witness Highest Growth
- The pandemic has fueled E-commerce growth, including the cross-border online sales between Chinese sellers and European buyers. According to CNBC, China’s cross-border e-commerce sales rose to 31.1% in 2020, while warehouses grew by 80%. Some of the Chinese market's big giants, such as Alibaba, have been expanding their cross-border e-commerce business through the AliExpress platform and Cainiao logistics arm. This is expected to drive the Fulfillment and warehousing services in the region.
- According to Alibaba, cross-border e-commerce has contributed a 51% year-on-year surge in Cainiao’s revenue to USD 1.74 billion in the last three months of 2020. Revenue from the company’s international commerce wholesale rose 53%, accounting for USD 577 million during that time. This increases opportunities for the vendors in the market to expand the warehousing services in the Asian market.
- Also, co-packing services are increasing in China, with more and more vendors venturing into the business. For instance, Sofeast, a chines-based company, offers Co-packaging for Chinese buyers with local suppliers and enable the customers to outsource the labeling and packaging services by eliminating the need for IP, pricing, or distribution channel information,
- Furthermore, trends like same-day deliveries and catering orders from various online marketplaces, like Amazon, eBay, flipkart, and snapdeal, have helped organizations gain expertise. Also, Amazon, Flipkart, is expanding its foothold in the developing economy by opening its fulfillment center. For instance, in July 2020, Amazon India announced to expand its fulfillment network in India, with ten new Fulfillment Centers (FC) and an expansion of 7 existing buildings. With this, Amazon expands its operations network to sixty fulfillment centers across 15 states in India to increase the storage capacity by 20% to total more than 32 million cubic feet. This helps in faster delivery and growth of packaging, logistics, and transportation.
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