Datamonitor's Textile Washing Products: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the textile washing products 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

* Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis and scorecards

* Covers the Global, European and Asia-Pacific markets as well as individual chapters on 5 major markets (France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US).

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The global textile washing products market grew by 2.5% in 2007 to reach a value of $34.5 billion.

In 2012, the market is forecast to have a value of $39 billion, an increase of 13.1% since 2007.

The sale of laundry detergents accounts for 73.1% of the market's value.

The European region market for textile washing products accounts for 42.2% of the global market's value.

Procter & Gamble has a 26.7% share of market's value in 2007.

Supermarkets and hypermarkets distribute 58.2% of the market's value.

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Market Definition

The textile washing products market consists of fabric conditioners, laundry detergents and stain removers. The market is valued according to retail selling price (RSP) and includes any applicable taxes. Any currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2006 annual average exchange rates.

For the purpose of this report, the European market is deemed to consist of Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

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

The Americas consists of the US, Canada, Brazil and Mexico.

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