PETpla.net Insider 11 / 2012

imprint EDITORIAL PUBLISHER Alexander Büchler, Managing Director HEAD OFFICE heidelberg business media GmbH Häusserstr. 36 69115 Heidelberg, Germany phone: +49(0)6221-65108-0 fax: +49(0)6221-65108-28 info@hbmedia.net EDITORIAL Doris Fischer: f ischer@hbmedia.net Michael Maruschke Ruari McCallion Ilona Trotter Wolfgang von Schroeter Anthony Withers MEDIA CONSULTANTS Ute Andrä andrae@hbmedia.net Martina Hischmann hirschmann@hbmedia.net phone: +49(0)6221-65108-0 fax: +49(0)6221-65108-28 France, Italy, Spain, UK Elisabeth Maria Köpke phone: +49(0)6201-878925 fax: +49(0)6201-878926 koepke@hbmedia.net LAYOUT AND PREPRESS Exprim Kommunikationsdesign Matthias Gaumann | www.exprim.de READER SERVICES Shiraz El Goudi reader@hbmedia.net PRINT Chroma Druck & Verlag GmbH Werkstr. 25 67454 Römerberg Germany WWW www.hbmedia.net | w ww.petpla.net PETplanet insider ISSN 1438-9459 is published 10 times a year. This publication is sent to qualified subscribers (1-year subscription 149 EUR, 2-year subscription 289 EUR, Young professionals’ sub- scription 99 EUR. Magazines will be dispatched to you by airmail). Not to be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher. Note: The fact that product names may not be identified as trade marks is not an indication that such names are not registered trademarks. 3 PET planet insider Vol. 13 No. 11/12 www.petpla.net EDITORIAL dear readers, One tour is now well and truly over, and already another is about to begin. There is so much going on at the moment, could it be a case of out of the frying pan, into the fire? If you have been following our blog on the Go to Brau Beviale Tour, you will be aware that our Editourmobil is now back from its successful tour which took us through Russia, the Ukraine and Poland. Kay Krüger, Michael Maruschke, Waldemar Schmitke and Alex Büchler visited more than 30 companies, identifying the major players and investigating the special characteristics of each market. On Page 32 of this issue, we have put together for you a summary overview of all our reports. In the forthcoming issues of PETplanet Insider, we will be bringing you our usual individual regional reports. And if all this still leaves you wanting more, this issue also features the fourth and final part of Wolfgang von Schroeter’s illuminating China Report. Sandwiched between tour and reports is the Brau Beviale 2012. Here, on our Stand 515 + 516 in Hall, we will be inviting you to meet all the companies we visited on our tour. An unmissable opportunity! The Editourmobil will be making a guest appearance on our stand so do come along and share the excitement. After the rigours of the tour, the Editourmobil has been treated to a little TLC, and the various scrapes and scratches have been sorted out. Time now to consider the next tour. Almost as soon as Brau Bevi- ale closes its doors for the last time, the Editourmobil will be off on its travels, this time to investigate what is happening in the Latin Ameri- can markets. Our established team consisting of Krüger/Maruschke/ Schmitke/Büchler will take the wheel in Lima, Peru, and then we shall move on to La Paz in Bolivia, followed by Santiago de Chile. The next stage will see the doughty team making the transit of South America as far as Buenos Aires in Argentina. From there we shall be heading northwards through Monte- negro in Uruguay and São Paulo in Brazil. The most northerly point is Sal- vador. The finishing line will be our visit to the plastics trade fair Feiplast in São Paulo in May. Are you one of the companies who will be on our route? If you are, we would be delighted to call in and see you. Just write to us at the address below to fix up an appointment. Already we are keenly anticipating the many interesting meetings with you that await us. Yours Alexander Büchler Lima Santiago La Paz Buenos Aires Montevideo Porto Alegre Curitiba Sao Paulo Rio de Janeiro Salvador