Concise Report Gives an Overview of the Hong Kong Postal Services Market

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Sun Jan 6, 2008 8:00pm EST

DUBLIN, Ireland--(Business Wire)--Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c78515) has announced the
addition of Snapshots Hong Kong Postal Services 2007 to their
offering.

   Snapdatas Snapshots Hong Kong Postal Services 2007 provides 2005
year-end market size data, with 2006 estimates, 4 years of historical
data and five-year forecasts. The Snapshots report gives an instant
overview of the Hong Kong postal service market, and covers letters
and parcels. Market volume is based on number of units handled. It
does not include courier services. The data is supplied in both
graphical and tabular format for ease of interpretation and analysis.
The Snapshots Hong Kong Postal Services 2007 forms part of Snapdatas
Business Services industry coverage.

   Executive Summary

   Snapshots Report Overview:

   Executive Summary

   The Executive Summary within a Snapshots report outlines the main
findings of the report (market size, market shares and market
forecasts)

   Market size

   Market size is the measure of the total value or volume of a
particular product sold in a particular length of time. In our case it
is the total amount of the market covered by a title in the last whole
year, for example, in UK Beer 2005, all the beer consumed in the UK in
2004. The aim of the report is to tell how much of the product was
consumed in the country discussed by value and by volume.

   Market Segmentation

   Market Segmentation is a segmentation of the market by key product
categories, ideally by value and volume. For example: the yoghurt
market can be segmented into: drinking yoghurt, flavoured yoghurt and
natural yoghurt.

   Market Share

   Market Share is the share of each competitor in the market place
and can be expressed in value or volume terms.

   Market Share by Volume - each competitor's share of the total
Market Volume

   Market Share by Value - each competitor's share of the total
Market Value

   Distribution

   This measure of the market relates to the different distribution
channels to market for each product. The distribution can include the
following channels

   Consumer Goods example:

   Supermarket

   Hypermarket

   Discount Store

   Corner shop

   Internet

   Etc

   Socio-Economic data

   The key socio-economic indicators in each report will be:

   Size of population

   GDP - Gross Domestic Product

   Inflation rate

   Exchange rate

   Forecasts

   All market forecasts are based on statistical forecasting
techniques based on historic performance (linear extrapolation of the
market size, based on the five-year historical growth). These
statistical tools are supplemented with qualitative parameters such
as: industry expectation/opinion. Socio-economic drivers, new product
development, technological advances, expected levels of market
saturation etc.

   For more information visit
http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c78515.

Research and Markets
Laura Wood, Senior Manager
press@researchandmarkets.com
Fax: +353 1 4100 980

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