Our 2024 annual yearbook of rankings and lists has landed. This special issue that we call The Book is a reprint of our processor rankings plus a review of our resin pricing histories and a "best of" collection of our editorial cartoons published throughout this past year.
At the research desk I've been the primary person, responsible for the content of our rankings since 1999. That includes the estimates we publish when companies choose not to provide figures for our reports. Using all available sources, including our collective years of experience reporting on the plastics industry, our processor data is unrivaled.
Each time we publish a ranking, it is a snapshot in time and plenty of business activity follows. As much as possible, for each issue, I update our rankings throughout the full year, while maintaining the fiscal period originally covered in the charts. This blog marks the first time, I've kept of journal of those changes, to capture just how much news happens in between publications.
And quite a lot has been updated this time round. The most common changes are because of subsequent business activities. In fact, our mergers and acquisitions tracker lists 204 deals for just this year. January 2024 held the most deals with 29, we'll see if next month follows the same pattern. You can follow all our acquisition news coverage online.