Industry Developments
BMI's food and drink Risk/Reward ratings assess a market's attractiveness to industry investors in comparison to its peers. The Reward part of the rating takes into account market size,...
2012-01-20Mozambique
Coca-Cola Sabco, the African Coca-Cola bottler, is considering building a US$50mn new facility in Mozambique, according to reports. The move would double the firm's production capacity...
2012-01-10Nigeria
Nestlé's Nigerian subsidiary has been growing fantastically over the past few years and its share price has thoroughly outperformed the benchmark Nigeria All-Share index in the process....
2011-11-18Tanzania
Africa continued to be a strong grower for SABMiller in volume terms in the first half period to September 2011. On the back of ongoing growth in commercial beer volumes as people get...
2011-11-17United Arab Emirates
BMI recently launched categorised volume and value soft drinks data for the UAE, where the size of the soft drinks industry has grown considerably over the past few years. Total volume...
2011-11-16South Africa
Wal-Mart's acquisition of the South African general merchandise retailer Massmart, which was finally completed in June 2011 for US$2.4bn (a 51% stake buy that allowed Massmart to retain...
2011-11-15Ghana
For so long, so many companies have been mostly interested in Africa for its resources or more recently land. The idea of investing in search of returns from the growing spending power...
2011-11-14Angola
We have highlighted Angola's growing profile in the global food and drink industry recently and it ranked fourth in BMI's inaugural Sub-Saharan Africa Risk/Reward Ratings (see 'Nigeria...
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