Opportunities south of the border: a newfound resilience in Latin America and still a place where regional label printers, and their foreign suppliers, profit.

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Opportunities south of the border: a newfound resilience in Latin America and still a place where regional label printers, and their foreign suppliers, profit.

Latin America has notoriously been a difficult region to do business in, with a long history of cyclic economic and political extremes. The 1990s was a decade of explosive growth for the Latin American narrow web sector. As inflation rates and import tariffs on capital goods decreased throughout the region, consumer products companies strove to meet the expanding spending habits of a burgeoning middle class. Label converters in the region imported hundreds of printing presses to meet the demands of their customers' growing market...

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