This article discusses how varying container glass growth patterns are emerging across South East Asia. Confidence in the commercial prospects for the glass sector in Vietnam has risen sharply in recent months. Although Malaysia is a more mature economy than some of its southeast Asian neighbours (Indonesia & Vietnam), it has an expanding drinks sector which opens numerous possibilities for bottle manufactures and beverage companies. After two years of political upheaval between 2008 and 2010, Thailand has returned to relative stability, offering the prospect of strong growth in the bottled beverage market, as tourism increases once again and the economy prospers, and Indonesia, the 4th largest population in the world with more than 237M people, is a very large and growing market for glass packaged beverage. The youth segment alone is more than 40M strong with an increasing appetite for Western-branded goods - particularly beers and soft drinks.
