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,... 2012-01-20

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... 2012-01-10

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.... 2011-11-18

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... 2011-11-17

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... 2011-11-16

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... 2011-11-15

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... 2011-11-14

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... 2011-11-11

As we prepare to launch an East Africa food and drink (F&D) report that will focus on Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Sudan (we will also touch upon some of the opportunities in Southern... 2011-11-08

Zambia has been growing strongly for SABMiller in recent years. According to the company, consumption was up by about 15% in 2010 and has continued to do well so far in 2011, which... 2011-11-07