United Arab Emirates
Industry
BMI expects higher value soft drinks segments to largely outperform the maturing carbonates segment over our forecast period to 2014 in the UAE. In absolute volume terms, the carbonates...
2010-08-20Companies
UAE-based conglomerate EMKE Group, owner of the Emirate's leading Lulu branded supermarkets and hypermarket will invest SAR1bn (US$267mn) in Saudi Arabia over the next eighteen months...
2010-08-10Industry
Judging by duty free and passenger traffic growth in Dubai and Abu Dhabi over H110 (calendar), consumer confidence appears to be coming back strongly in the Gulf region. Although we...
2010-08-09Industry
Consumer spending in the UAE, and in Dubai in particular, remains weak. While forecast real GDP growth of 4.8% for 2010 suggests support for a strong bounce in spending, growth will...
2010-07-28Industry
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is increasingly important to Western food and drink outlet companies. Demand for premium Western style coffee houses and fast food outlets...
2010-07-09Industry
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....
2010-07-07Industry
The ongoing strength of Dubai Duty Free (DDF) continues to contrast with on-the-ground caution in Dubai - hitherto the driving force behind the Gulf premiumisation wave. DDF H110 sales...
2010-07-05Industry
Having introduced segmented UAE soft drinks data in Q210 (calendar), we expect carbonate sales to underperform the wider soft drinks industry to 2014, with higher-value segments like...
2010-06-30
