Revealed: Who can weather the storm?  

Tetra Laval is the packaging company best positioned to benefit

from future packaging developments in the industry, according to GlobalData analysts. 

The Switzerland-based firm comes top of the list in a ranking of overall leadership in the themes that matter most among packaging companies. 

These themes, which can be defined as any issues that keep CEOs awake at night, describe technological, macroeconomic and industry-specific challenges that companies are currently facing, as well as the opportunities they create.  

GlobalData's Thematic Research ecosystem identifies and tracks these challenges, and how they create the long-term winners and losers of the packaging industry. 

Tetra Laval scored highly in several themes, particularly when it comes to advanced materials, eCommerce, ESG, robotics and geopolitics, where it received top marks of five out of five. 

Tetra Laval received scores of four for Covid, online food delivery, demographics and artificial intelligence; and three for

direct-to-consumer performances. 

These scores represent GlobalData analysts' assessments of the competitiveness of each company regarding a particular theme. They are then weighted based on their importance and used to create the final industry ranking. 

Tetra Laval is followed in the ranking by Crown Holdings, Elopak and

Berry Global. 

The interactive graphic below allows you to compare company ratings across the 10 themes in question. The higher up a company is on the list, the better positioned it is to weather disruption in the future, while the companies at the bottom are more vulnerable to disruptive threats. 

Click on any of the companies to compare them across all of the themes in the analysis. 

The analysis also reveals US-based companies are some of the best-prepared players in the packaging game. Companies from France and Norway also performed well.