Details

  • Industry: Chemicals, Real Estate & Construction
  • Type: Business and industry issue
  • Date: 30/06/2011

Reaction

Reaction is KPMG's Global Chemicals magazine, providing insight into issues affecting the Chemicals industry.

Reaction Magazine: Fourth Edition 

In this issue of Reaction, we look at mergers and acquisitions (M&A) trends from both an emerging market and established market company perspective and how M&A activity may change the shape of the global chemical industry over coming years. We consider current trends in the global construction industry – an important end market for chemical products – and see how tax efficiency in the supply chain can provide competitive advantage.
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Key insights

  • Global construction is US$30 billion market for the chemicals industry.
  • The United States is the world's largest construction market, accounting for 20 percent of total global construction spending.
  • Real estate prices have increased 140 percent in China since 2007 and by as much as 800 percent in Beijing.
  • The business driven and substance based form of tax planning known as TESCM continues to be an appropriate way to reduce or optimise the overall effective tax rate for multinational companies.
  • Established market companies are pursuing similar strategies of moving closer to the customer and sourcing where they sell.  
 

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