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Latin America Struggles to Hold Market Gains

As regional growth slows to 4.2 percent and raw material costs rise, ink executives anticipate mixed results for the coming year.

The Latin American ink market is struggling to hold on to the gains registered in 2004, when the regional economy expanded by a robust 5.5 percent and ink sales expanded by an estimated 6 percent to 7 percent. This year, with regional economic growth decelerating to approximately 4.2 percent, with oil-driven cost increases and with ongoing foreign exchange variations around the hemisphere, industry executives caution against projecting an overall growth prediction and are reluctant to place a ...

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