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About Consulting

Pira International serves the paper, packaging, print and publishing supply chain. The company has an enormous archive of technical and commercial information generated over 75 years carrying out research programmes and consultancy on behalf of governments and companies worldwide. Completing thousands of different projects solving real world problems on a contract basis for hundreds of industry players has distilled this raw data into deep sector knowledge. This knowledge has been further filtered through the personal experience of more than 100 front-line Pira consultants recruited from a wide range of industries worldwide and supplemented by our Information Centre who monitor all external sector-related publications and from the Media Group's market reports on paper, printing and packaging related topics.

Pira Consulting exists to deploy the knowledge we have accumulated over many years to the benefit of clients seeking strategic advice. Most of our revenues comprise repeat business from long standing clients who recognise the cost effectiveness of on-demand specialist advice and expertise. Our clients respect our objectivity, independence and impartiality based on years of multi-client collaborative research projects and market surveys carried out for groups of otherwise competing players.

Last year the Consulting Group completed projects for 230 clients in 20 countries. Services provided ranged from packaging selection to achieve maximum market impact to advising paper mills and printing plants on compliance with relevant environmental legislation. Pira's expertise covers the entire value chain from sourcing the original raw materials to the point of retail sale to the eventual end user. For example, this expertise includes technical knowledge of paper making, packaging manufacture and printing, the regulatory and environmental aspects of these industries, best practices and business strategies for growth and development and the application of business and market research for investigating cutomer and end-user's requirements and perceptions.

Our clients include both direct participants in the retail value chain and companies that finance or advise those participants. With offices close to London and New York, the world's two largest financial centres, we have a particular focus on the financial services vertical, which is served by the dedicated Pira Financial Markets Group providing services such as commercial due diligence and customer surveys. In all other sectors our international business development team provides a unified point of contact that will help you navigate the Pira network to find the person best qualified to add value to your business.

Pira Consulting. Our knowledge, your advantage.