Allan Consulting offers strategic guidance and market forecasts to producers and users of newsprint and printing papers as well as members of the financial community who follow the paper space.
Publisher of the authoritative Newsprint Tracker© reports, Allan Consulting also performs market strategy studies for key participants in the paper markets, both in North America and globally.
Allan Consulting brings to bear a formidable combination of wide-ranging experience in the newsprint and printing paper industry, plus deep knowledge and insights about fast-evolving trends in paper supply, demand and pricing, to offer guidance and understanding that clients can act on in their businesses.
Allan Consulting has been asked to address an extremely broad range of market issues:
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Forecast newsprint pricing, supply, exports, imports, demand and inventories, for the U.S. and Canada; China, India and other Asian markets, and Latin America and Europe.
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Analyze the differences among pricing for various printing paper grades including newsprint, uncoated mechanical and coated mechanical papers.
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Provide guidance to potential buyers and sellers of newsprint mills on the customer portfolio value of their assets.
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Help investors to understand the cost position and overall competitive strengths and weaknesses of various newsprint and printing paper mills.
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Develop marketing strategies for newsprint producers and printing/writing paper manufacturers, including producers of coated papers, directory paper, and supercalendered and other uncoated groundwood papers.
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Develop purchasing strategies for buyers of newsprint and printing papers.
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Develop an alternative product vision for a newsprint mill considering conversion to another printing/writing paper grade.
It has worked in the area of mergers and acquisitions, representing producers merging with producers, companies buying or selling individual assets, and companies being acquired.
In addition to its consulting work for numerous clients, Allan Consulting is the publisher of the Newsprint Tracker© Quarterly Reports, the preeminent source for thoughtful and insightful guidance about the future of North American newsprint pricing, capacity, production, exports, imports and inventories. The Newsprint Tracker© Quarterly Reports are read by most of the major producers and buyers of newsprint in North America, as well as by money managers and other financial community leaders interested in the newsprint space. Now joining the Newsprint Tracker© Quarterly Reports, Allan Consulting’s Newsprint Tracker© Monthly Briefing provides the most insightful monthly commentary on pricing and other trends in newsprint markets.