Publishing in Belgium

Introduction

Publishing in Belgium industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value 2007-11, and forecast to 2016). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the Belgium publishing market. Includes market size and segmentation data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.

Highlights

-The publishing market consists of books, newspaper and magazines segments. The book publishing industry comprises publishers of academic, professional, general and other (fictions, non-fiction etc) books. The market value of this segment refers to the domestic B2C sales of books only at the retail sales price (RSP). The newspaper and magazine segment value is calculated as the revenues generated by publishers from B2C sales of copies of their products, and does not include advertising revenues. Any currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2010 annual average exchange rates.

-The Belgian publishing market is expected to generate total revenue of $2,293 million in 2011, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.4% between 2007 and 2011.

-Book sales are expected to be the most lucrative for the Belgian publishing market in 2011, with total revenues of $1,193.9 million, equivalent to 52.1% of the market's overall value.

-The performance of the market is forecast to decelerate, with an anticipated CAGR of 2% for the five-year period 2011 - 2016, which is expected to drive the market to a value of $2,532.3 million by the end of 2016.

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Key Questions Answered

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Executive Summary 2
Market value 2
Market value forecast 2
Geography segmentation 2
Market rivalry 2
Market Overview 6
Market definition 6
Market analysis 6
Market Data 7
Market value 7
Market Segmentation 8
Category segmentation 8
Geography segmentation 9
Market Outlook 10
Market value forecast 10
Five Forces Analysis 11
Summary 11
Buyer power 12
Supplier power 13
New entrants 14
Threat of substitutes 15
Degree of rivalry 16
Leading Companies 17
Axel Springer AG 17
Lagardère SCA 20
Roularta Media Group NV 25
Macroeconomic Indicators 29
Country Data 29
Appendix 31
Methodology 31
Industry associations 32
Related Datamonitor research 32

LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: Belgium publishing market value: $ million, 2007–11(e) 7
Table 1: Belgium publishing market category segmentation : EUR million, 2011(e) 8
Table 1: Belgium publishing market geography segmentation : European million, 2011(e) 9
Table 1: Belgium publishing market value forecast: $ million, 2011–16 10
Table 1: Axel Springer AG: key facts 17
Table 1: Axel Springer AG: key financials ($) 18
Table 1: Axel Springer AG: key financials (€) 18
Table 1: Axel Springer AG: key financial ratios 18
Table 1: Lagardère SCA: key facts 20
Table 1: Lagardère SCA: key financials ($) 22
Table 1: Lagardère SCA: key financials (€) 22
Table 1: Lagardère SCA: key financial ratios 23
Table 1: Roularta Media Group NV: key facts 25
Table 1: Roularta Media Group NV: key financials ($) 26
Table 1: Roularta Media Group NV: key financials (€) 27
Table 1: Roularta Media Group NV: key financial ratios 27
Table 1: Belgium size of population (million), 2007–11 29
Table 1: Belgium gdp (constant 2000 prices, $ billion), 2007–11 29
Table 1: Belgium gdp (current prices, $ billion), 2007–11 29
Table 1: Belgium inflation, 2007–11 30
Table 1: Belgium consumer price index (absolute), 2007–11 30
Table 1: Belgium exchange rate, 2007–11 30

LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: Belgium publishing market value: $ million, 2007–11(e) 7
Figure 1: Belgium publishing market category segmentation : % share, by value, 2011(e) 8
Figure 1: Belgium publishing market geography segmentation : % share, by value, 2011(e) 9
Figure 1: Belgium publishing market value forecast: $ million, 2011–16 10
Figure 1: Forces driving competition in the publishing market in Belgium, 2011 11
Figure 1: Drivers of buyer power in the publishing market in Belgium, 2011 12
Figure 1: Drivers of supplier power in the publishing market in Belgium, 2011 13
Figure 1: Factors influencing the likelihood of new entrants in the publishing market in Belgium, 2011 14
Figure 1: Factors influencing the threat of substitutes in the publishing market in Belgium, 2011 15
Figure 1: Drivers of degree of rivalry in the publishing market in Belgium, 2011 16
Figure 1: Axel Springer AG: revenues & profitability 19
Figure 1: Axel Springer AG: assets & liabilities 19
Figure 1: Lagardère SCA: revenues & profitability 23
Figure 1: Lagardère SCA: assets & liabilities 24
Figure 1: Roularta Media Group NV: revenues & profitability 27
Figure 1: Roularta Media Group NV: assets & liabilities 28