Marktanalyse - Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals in the United States

Datamonitor's Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals in the United States industry profile is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the fertilizers & agricultural chemicals industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, plus textual and graphical analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, leading companies and demographic information.

Scope

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

* Provides textual analysis of the industry’s recent performance and future prospects

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

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

* The leading companies are profiled with supporting key financial metrics

* Supported by the key macroeconomic and demographic data affecting the market

Highlights

* Detailed information is included on market size, measured by value and/or volume

* Five forces scorecards provide an accessible yet in depth view of the market’s competitive landscape

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Market Definition

The fertilizer and agrochemical market consists of fertilizers and the broad range of insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides, it may also include synthetic fertilizers, hormones and other growth regulator substances. Fertilizer consumption refers to the amount, in thousand metric tons, of the nutrients nitrogen (N), potash (K2O), and phosphate (P2O5) consumed in agriculture on an annual basis.

Agrochemical consumption volume refers to the amount of active ingredients. Both fertilizer and agrochemical consumption refer to their use in field crops farming.

Market values are calculated at farm selling price. Any currency conversions included in this report have been calculated using constant 2008 annual average exchange rates.

For the purpose of this report the Americas comprises Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, the US, and Venezuela.

Western Europe comprises Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the UK.Eastern Europe comprises the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia and Ukraine.Europe is the sum of Eastern and Western Europe.

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

The global figure comprises the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3

CHAPTER 1 Market Overview 7

1.1 Market Definition 7

1.2 Research Highlights 7

1.3 Market Analysis 8

CHAPTER 2 Market Value 9

CHAPTER 3 Market Volume 10

CHAPTER 4 Market Segmentation I 11

CHAPTER 5 Market Segmentation II 12

CHAPTER 6 Five Forces Analysis 13

6.1 Summary 13

6.2 Buyer Power 14

6.3 Supplier Power 15

6.4 New Entrants 16

6.5 Substitutes 17

6.6 Rivalry 18



CHAPTER 7 Leading Companies 19

7.1 The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) 19

7.2 Monsanto Company 25

7.3 E. I. duPont de Nemours & Company 28

7.4 Bunge Limited 32

CHAPTER 8 Market Forecasts 34

8.1 Market Value Forecast 34

8.2 Market Volume Forecast 35

CHAPTER 9 Macroeconomic Indicators 36

CHAPTER 10 Appendix 37

10.1 Methodology 37

10.2 Industry Associations 38

10.3 Related Datamonitor Research 38



LIST OF TABLES

Table 1: United States Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals Market Value: $ billion, 2004-2008 9

Table 2: United States Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals Market Volume: Tonnes million, 2004-2008 10

Table 3: United States Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals Market Segmentation I: % Share, by Value, 2008 11

Table 4: United States Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals Market Segmentation II: % Share, by Value, 2008 12

Table 5: Key Facts: The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) 19

Table 6: Key Financials: The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) 24

Table 7: Key Facts: Monsanto Company 25

Table 8: Key Financials: Monsanto Company 27

Table 9: Key Facts: E. I. duPont de Nemours & Company 28

Table 10: Key Financials: E. I. duPont de Nemours & Company 31

Table 11: Key Facts: Bunge Limited 32

Table 12: Key Financials: Bunge Limited 33

Table 13: United States Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals Market Value Forecast: $ billion, 2008-2013 34

Table 14: United States Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals Market Volume Forecast: Tonnes million, 2008-2013 35

Table 15: United States Size of Population (million) , 2004-2008 36

Table 16: United States GDP (Constant 2000 Prices, $ billion), 2004-2008 36

Table 17: United States Inflation, 2004-2008 36

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