companies has to adapt for the decrease in con-
sumption, production and sales.
Metallic packaging manufacturers are now focu-
sed mainly on their customers, keeping an open,
transparent relationship, while continuing to
seek new business. In addition, the industry had
already faced challenges over the past few years.
Therefore, those companies who properly adapted
their structures for the pre-crisis market quickly
put in motion the strategies that had been devised
and tested in previous difficult times, which un-
doubtedly represents a great advantage. However,
companies are aware that there still is a long way
to go before fully bouncing back from the crisis.
13th Paint & Pintura Awards
A festive evening in the paint industry
The 13th Paint & Pintura Awards, which were
presented on Friday evening, May 15, when around
1,000 representatives of the paint industry were
present at Monte Líbano, in São Paulo, and lea-
ned who were the winners of the “paint industry’s
Oscar.”
Organized by Ávila-Agnelo Editora, this edition
of the awards had important differentiations.
The most important one was the large number
of answerers to the Paint & Pintura Survey, who
totaled 144. The 13th Paint & Pintura Survey was
conducted from January 16 to April 3, 2009 with
88 paint manufacturers representing practically
one third of Brazil’s entire paint industry and,
more importantly, 80 percent of the total paint
volume produced in the nation. “Over this long pe-
riod in which we have surveyed the Brazilian paint
market, in 2009 we were proud to obtain the most
representative sample of all of these years of sur-
vey thanks to the engagement of the Ávila-Agnelo
surveying team,” remarked Sergio Ávila, director
“É nossa vez de mostrar o r
OBRIGADO”