Rosemarie Downey Industry Manager - Packaging
london
English
About Rosemarie
Rosemarie leads Euromonitor’s global packaging research, setting content strategy and research focus. She is a thought leader, providing insightful analysis and guidance to our clients. She mentors colleagues in their analysis creation and shares across teams on trends. She is also the blog lead for Euromonitor’s B2B webpage.
Expertise
Rosemarie provides global insights on consumer packaging dynamics across a range of materials and industries. Based in London, she advises clients operating in fmcg, packaging, chemicals, machinery, and investment. She has a special interest in sustainability, digitalisation and consumer sentiment and habits. Rosemarie has more than 20 years’ research experience. She was part of the core team that established Euromonitor’s packaging system. She previously worked for a packaging research agency, delivering syndicated and bespoke projects, including market sizing and customer satisfaction surveys.
Recently Published Work
Rigid Plastics’ Circularity: Demand for Renewable Packaging Intensifies
Rosemarie Downey
There is ever-growing expectation for sustainable packaging. The search for better is reflected in consumer sentiment and regulatory attention. The focus on plastic goes wide with regulation increasingly the lever used to secure more rapid progress on the road towards a circular economy.
Three Packaging Strategies to Adopt in Times of Cost Pressures
Rosemarie Downey
The consumer packaging industry is typically strong in its ability to withstand crises, given the importance of everyday groceries to global revenues; food and drink accounted for 92% of retail packaging volume sales in 2023. However, inflation, interest rates and geopolitical instability serve to amplify operating costs, for packaging converters/machinery players, brands, and retailers, apparent in the final retail price point, paid by the consumer.
Unwrapping Sustainable Packaging: Redesign for Circularity
Jorge Zuniga
During the current Global Recycling Awareness Week, celebrated on March 18th, it is worth noting that five fmcg industries contributed to four trillion retail packaging units in 2023, a figure expected to rise by 2% by 2026, according to Euromonitor’s packaging data. In this week that aims to generate awareness around the environmental significance of recycling, it is also important to understand that addressing sustainability is not only a moral requirement but also a business opportunity.