22% of UK Bottled Water & Cooler Companies Are Now in Financial Danger

Business Wire, Sept 20, 2007

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c69019) has announced the addition of Bottled Water & Coolers - Portfolio Analysis to their offering.

The Bottled Water & Coolers - Portfolio Analysis is a comprehensive evaluation of the UK market. The revised and updated 2007 edition analyses the financial performance of the companies important to the success of your business. Using the most up to date information available, the analysis is ideal both as a tool to benchmark your own company's results and to study the market in more depth. Aimed at the busy manager, the Portfolio Analysis is both quick and easy to use thanks to the unique visual layout. The Analysis lays bare the performance of each company highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. Do you know which companies are best to do business with? Do you know which companies are selling at a loss and whose profit margins are plummeting? Find out the answers to all these questions and more with the newly published Portfolio Analysis.

The report is divided into two colour-coded sections for your ease of use, Sector Analysis and Individual Company Analysis.

Sector Analysis: Sales growth, market share and profitability are all analysed over a 10 year period giving you the fullest picture possible of the health of the market. Companies are ranked on these categories so you can see which companies are outshining the rest. Use the industry average tables to benchmark your own company's performance- how do you compare to the rest of the industry?

Industry Analysis: Each company receives a full page of analysis, evaluating their financial performance over the last five years so you get a full picture of the long term prospects of each company. Each company page of analysis is also packed with the following information: Full business name and address, Names and ages of directors, contact details and website address, seven unique charts showing at a glance the performance of each company, averages for the industry are also shown indicating the bare minimum each company should be looking to achieve, and five years of the latest accounts available.

Over the past 12 months in your industry:

-22% of companies are now in financial danger.

-23 companies are blatantly selling at a loss to capture market share.

-Average pre-tax profit was 0.7%

-Average sales growth was -4.1%

120 companies are analysed including:

A I International Laminates Ltd

Cip Estates Ltd

Acre Products Ltd

Claimoption Ltd

Alvin Laminates Ltd

Cnc Laminates Ltd

Api Group Plc

Consett Laminators Ltd

Api Laminates Ltd

Corus Group Plc

Aresco Ltd

Covent Garden Laminates Ltd

Ark Display Graphics Ltd

Creative Tiles & Laminates Ltd

Atotech Uk Ltd

Crossley & Bradley Ltd

Britannia Print Finishers Ltd

Drytac Europe Ltd

Brydian Cards Ltd

Edp Plastics Ltd

C & C Laminators Ltd

Eurobond Laminates Ltd

Cardel Ltd

Eurobond Laminates (1991) Ltd

Cardinal Health U K 414 Ltd

Eurocaps Ltd

Celessence International Ltd

European Electrical Laminations Ltd

Geo L Scott & Co Ltd

Mw Encap Ltd

Glasgow Laminators Ltd

Mw Encap (Holdings) Ltd

Goliath Trade Laminators Ltd

P H Laminators Ltd

Goliath Windows Ltd

Pacflex (International) Flexible Packaging Ltd

Green Holdings Ltd

Parkside Cabinets & Interiors Ltd

H S Bassett & Son Ltd

Permabond Laminates Ltd

Hampshire Laminators Ltd

Petal Postforming Ltd

L S Dixon Group Ltd

Rearo Laminates Ltd

Lamboard Holdings Ltd

Rearo Supplies Ltd

Lamin 8 Ltd

Reflections Print Lamination Ltd

Laminated Products Ltd

Romag Holdings Plc

Shore Laminate Fabricators Ltd

Slater Harrison & Co Ltd

Sonae (Uk) Ltd

Spa Laminates Ltd

Spot On Laminators Ltd

Sub Micron Ltd

Surrey Laminators Ltd

T Haynes Chorley & Co Ltd

Tafisa (Uk) Ltd

Texapin Ltd

Thames Estuary Plastics Ltd

Tops Laminates (East Midlands) Ltd

Trident Services Ltd

Universal Laminators Ltd

Viking Laminates Ltd

Vivid Laminating Technologies Ltd

Wembley Laminations Ltd

Wey Plastics Ltd

Wgd Holdings Ltd

Whitmore Bacon Ltd

Whyte Group Ltd

Wingrove & Edge Ltd

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c69019.