Industry Developments

Largely known for oil until now, private consumption is going to become a lot more important to the Nigerian economy over the next few years. Although Nigeria is still very poor on... 2011-05-31

Basic carbonated soft drinks sales are not growing as quickly as they used to in the UAE. In our opinion, both Emiratis and expatriates are going to be drinking a lot more juice and... 2011-05-27

AmBev has had an incredibly successful time in post-2009 Brazil. It is one of the crown jewels in AB InBev's global portfolio with the lion's share of the Brazilian market and some... 2011-05-26

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

Low-cost retailing has definitely been the big outperformer in the South African food retailing universe over the past few years. If the country's leading low-cost retailer Shoprite... 2011-05-04

Cameroon's economy has performed steadily over the past decade with real GDP growth averaging 3.7% between 2000 and 2009, which, although not quite as dynamic as some of Africa's fastest... 2011-05-03

We think Uganda should continue to do well on the consumer side over the next few years. Its economy has been the fastest growing of the East African Community's three largest economies... 2011-04-28

Africa provides terrific opportunities in beer and things will only get better over the next few years, as people get richer and therefore spend more on branded products. Low per capita... 2011-04-20

With oil-rich Angola's economy among the fastest growing in the world and its organised food retail industry still so underdeveloped, it is clear that there is going to be a lot of... 2011-04-19

Margins are becoming increasingly important in South Africa's competitive food retail industry with the still likely arrival of Wal-Mart likely to compound this. Consumer confidence... 2011-04-18