Datamonitor's Utilities in Brazil industry profile is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the utilities industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, plus textual and graphical analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, leading companies and demographic information.

Scope

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and/or segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry’s recent performance and future prospects

* Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis and scorecards

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

* The leading companies are profiled with supporting key financial metrics

* Supported by the key macroeconomic and demographic data affecting the market

Highlights

* Detailed information is included on market size, measured by value and/or volume

* Five forces scorecards provide an accessible yet in depth view of the market’s competitive landscape

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* Inform your business decisions

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* Save time carrying out entry-level research

Market Definition

The utilities industry consists of the electricity, gas and water markets. The electricity market consists of the sale of electricity to industrial, commercial, household and other end-users, including agricultural and transport users. The market value has been calculated according to average annual electricity prices.

The gas utilities market is calculated as the total value of natural gas used by industrial, (including energy generators purchasing gas from utilities), commercial, residential, and other end-users (including transport and agriculture users).The water utilities industry consists of all water that is collected, treated and distributed to end-users. The industry has been valued according to average annual end-user prices. All currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2006 annual average exchange rates.

For the purpose of this report the Americas comprises Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the US.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3
CHAPTER 1 Market Overview 7
1.1 Market Definition 7
1.2 Research Highlights 7
1.3 Market Analysis 8
CHAPTER 2 Market Value 9
CHAPTER 3 Market Segmentation I 10
CHAPTER 4 Market Segmentation II 11
CHAPTER 5 Five Forces Analysis 12
5.1 Water Utilities 12
5.2 Electricity 13
5.3 Gas Utilities 14
CHAPTER 6 Leading Companies 15
6.1 Petrobras Energia Participaciones S.A 15
6.2 Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. – ELETROBRÁS 18
6.3 Companhia de Saneamento Basico de Sao Paulo 20
CHAPTER 7 Market Forecasts 24
7.1 Market Value Forecast 24
CHAPTER 8 Macroeconomic Indicators 25
CHAPTER 9 Appendix 27
9.1 Methodology 27
9.2 Industry Associations 28
9.3 Related Datamonitor Research 28

LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: Brazil Utilities Industry Value: $ billion, 2002-2006 9
Table 2: Brazil Utilities Industry Segmentation I: % Share, by Value, 2006 10
Table 3: Brazil Utilities Industry Segmentation II: % Share, by Value, 2006 11
Table 4: Key Facts: Petrobras Energia Participaciones S.A 15
Table 5: Key Financials: Petrobras Energia Participaciones S.A 17
Table 6: Key Facts: Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - ELETROBRÁS 18
Table 7: Key Facts: Companhia de Saneamento Basico de Sao Paulo 20
Table 8: Key Financials: Companhia do Metropolitano de Säo Paulo 23
Table 9: Brazil Utilities Industry Value Forecast: $ billion, 2006-2011 24
Table 10: Brazil Size of Population (million) , 2002-2006 25
Table 11: Brazil GDP (1995=100), 2002-2006 25
Table 12: Brazil Inflation, 2002-2006 25
Table 13: Brazil Exchange Rate, 2002 26