Israel

BMI's Food and Drink Risk/Reward Ratings assess a market's attractiveness to industry investors in comparison to its regional and global peers. The ratings take into account market... 2011-07-15

The Israeli food and drink giant Strauss has reported a 34.4% decline in Q1 (to March 2011) net income, despite growing its sales by 4.5% year-on-year (y-o-y) as high input costs (namely... 2011-05-20

Israeli food companies can only grow so much domestically because the industry is quite mature, so international expansion is absolutely pivotal. The likes of Strauss and G. Willi-Food... 2011-03-17

BMI's near-term expectations for the (F&D) industry largely revolve around ongoing weakness in developed markets and the outperformance of emerging markets (EM). Led by the US,... 2010-12-09

There is currently much discussion in the global food, drink and retail industries about the largest companies needing to strengthen emerging market (EM) exposure to try and uphold... 2010-09-15

BMI's expectations for food and drink (F&D) industry growth in the short term are in keeping with our global macro views: weak US and eurozone growth and a post-stimulus cooling... 2010-07-05

Driven mostly by domestic and international expansion, Israel's Strauss Group - the country's largest food and drink company by annual sales - has reported a 15.5% year-on-year (y-o-y)... 2010-05-25

Israeli food company G Willi-Food International expects first quarter (three months to March 31 2010) sales revenues to increase 15% year-on-year and operating income to spike 40%.... 2010-04-21

Israel's second-largest mass grocery retailer (MGR) by market share Blue Square has reported a 3.5% year-on-year (y-o-y) increase in fourth quarter (three months to December 31 2009)... 2010-03-17

Boosted by acquisitions and the strong performance of Nestlé brands, leading Israeli food producer and distributor Osem Investments - 53.8% owned by the Swiss giant - has reported... 2009-09-04