Industry Developments

Spinneys, one of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)'s largest food retailers, continues to see a lot of room for growth in the region as demand for organised food retailing continues... 2011-11-07

We have often highlighted the fantastic growth the Portuguese retailer Jerónimo Martins has delivered in Poland, where it owns the no-frills discounter Biedronka. It cannot be emphasised... 2011-11-04

The retailer Spar has launched a store in Abu Dhabi as it searches for growth in high spending UAE, where the organised food retail sector is growing quite strongly. We have highlighted... 2011-11-02

BMI expects bottled water and juices to grow more quickly in volume terms than carbonated/fizzy drinks over our forecast period. We note that the South African carbonates sector is... 2011-11-01

Zimbabwe's beer industry is bouncing back nicely as the economy continues to recover. In the first half period to September 2011, beer volume sales by Delta Corporation, which dominates... 2011-10-24

There is plenty of daylight between Nigeria and South Africa and the rest in our newly launched risk/reward food and drink (F&D) ratings for Sub-Saharan Africa, which rates a total... 2011-10-20

As the chart shows, Diageo's share price performance has outperformed BMI's market-cap weighted alcohol index (re-based to December 31 2010) over the past few months, illustrated by... 2011-10-18

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

As we prepare to launch a West & Central Africa food and drink (F&D) report that will focus on Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire and Gabon, this gives us a good opportunity to have a... 2011-10-14

As part of a significant drive to increase our data coverage across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), BMI has launched food consumption and mass grocery retail (MGR) data for three West African... 2011-10-10