Datamonitor's Tobacco Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the tobacco industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies

* Covers Global, European, Asia-Pacific & 11 individual country markets

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The global tobacco market generated total revenues of $488.2 billion in 2006, this representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 34.1% for the five-year period spanning 2002-2006.

Market consumption volumes declined with a CARC of -0.9% between 2002-2006, to reach a total of 3,838 billion sticks in 2006.

The performance of the market is forecast to decelerate, with an anticipated CAGR of 2.1% for the five-year period 2006-2011 expected to drive the market to a value of $541.8 billion by the end of 2011.

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* Spot future trends and developments

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Definition

The tobacco market covers all legal sales of cigarettes and excludes sales of loose tobacco. The market volume is calculated according to numbers of cigarettes sold. The market value is calculated according to retail selling price (RSP) and includes all taxes and levies. All currency conversions in the report are calculated at 2005 annual average exchange rates.

For the purposes of this report Europe consists of Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

Asia-Pacific consists of Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan.

The Americas comprises the US, Canada, Brazil, and Mexico.

The global market consists of Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas.