Lebanon

BMI's food and drink team are rolling out a series of new and improved risk/reward ratings for all its regions. The new ratings, introduced here for the Middle East and North Africa... 2011-10-17

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 political and economic landscape across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has fundamentally changed since our last ratings update. Tunisia's overthrow of president Ben Ali... 2011-04-08

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

Boasting neither a high-spending consumer nor a large market, Lebanon has largely slipped under the radar over the past few years as investment into food and drink (F&D) has picked... 2010-07-27

With the exception of the highly leveraged UAE emirate of Dubai, the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) has largely outperformed the global economy over the past eighteen months.... 2010-07-07

Despite coming off a low base, BMI expects Lebanon's mass grocery retail (MGR) industry to register fairly modest growth to 2014 with headline average annual sales growth of 2.56%... 2010-03-29

US-based tequila producer Patrόn Spirits Company will sell its brands in Lebanon after entering into a distribution agreement with Khalil Fattal & Fils (KFF). Although... 2009-04-23

Kuwaiti retailer The Sultan Center (TSC) has announced its plans to expand its presence in the Lebanese mass grocery retail (MGR) sector following its earlier acquisition of two local... 2008-09-17

Kuwaiti retailer The Sultan Center (TSC) has announced its acquisition of Lebanese food retailers Monoprix and Geant Casino from local company Admic, in a deal worth US$108mn. Under... 2008-08-05