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Water for Food & Beverage: Market Trends and Forecasts, 2024–2030
The highly fragmented food and beverage manufacturing industry is rapidly growing due to population expansion in key markets, evolving consumer preferences (e.g., plant-based foods), and a heightened focus on sustainability. Given that water and wastewater management are impacted by these shifts, water solutions providers and multinationals are racing to address the opportunities ahead.Water Mergers & Acquisitions: Trends and Deal Flow, Q1 2024
The 2023 year ended with a total of 372 transactions tracked by Bluefield. Bluefield has tracked 54 total water deals so far this year. There is optimism that 2024 will be a strong year for consolidation, driven by pent-up investor demand, stabilizing cost of capital, and improved macroeconomic conditions.
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Back to the Future: Ten Years Gone and Strategic Water Foresight with Matthew Klein
Ten years ago, Matthew Klein was the first ever guest of The Water Values Podcast. Matt, now CEO and Chief Futurist at Aqualaurus Group, returns to discuss the discipline of strategic foresight and ho...Europe Municipal Water: Key Trends, Policy Activity, and Market Outlook, Q1 2024
Europe is set to see a rise in M&A activity after lowest third quarter in over a decade as the easing of inflation across the U.S., the U.K., and the EU, has improved the outlook for deal flow in 2024. Large water players wishing to expand in the region are showing interest in smaller water players in Northern and Central Europe.U.S. Digital Water Market Overview
The nearly US$8 billion U.S. digital water market is growing at an 8% CAGR, or 3x to 4x the pace of growth in the broader municipal water and wastewater infrastructure sector. Digital water offers significant growth, profit opportunities for water incumbents and new market entrants with well well-calibrated strategies.
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What Can the Water Industry Learn from the Success of the Renewable Power Industry?
There is no doubt that the electric power and water sectors are intrinsically linked. From thermal power generation (e.g., natural gas, coal) to the emergence of a hydrogen economy, one sect...Europe Lays the Foundations for the Water Sector’s Complex Future: Bluefield’s 2024 Regional Outlook
Bluefield's Europe water experts presented findings from their analysis of 2024–2030 Europe Municipal Water CAPEX Forecasts, and provided an overview of the state of Europe’s water market, investment drivers, technological advancements, regulatory frameworks, funding structures and cost-recovery strategies.
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