Industry Developments

Beer is definitely doing well in Southern Sudan. SABMiller and Diageo are both present and the former is going to invest another US$15mn to boost its capacity to about 0.5mn hectolitres... 2011-04-11

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

Consumers across the emerging world in particular have been hit hard by rising food prices. In many cases food price inflation is rising at a faster rate than headline inflation as... 2011-04-07

Sales of low cost basic carbonated soft drinks are slowing down in the UAE. Emiratis and expatriates alike are going to be consuming a lot more juices and bottled water over the next... 2011-04-05

Despite a static soft drinks industry that has not yet truly recovered from the effects the 2008 post-election violence had on the consumer spending, Kenya is still a pretty attractive... 2011-03-29

With Uchumi coming back pretty strongly after re-emerging from administration in early 2010, Kenya's food retail sector has a pretty competitive feel to it. The likes of Nakumatt and... 2011-03-28

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

Zimbabwe's Innscor, a snack food producer and food services company, has reported a more than 20% increase in revenues to US$255.5mn in its first half through to December 2010. It is... 2011-03-17

Africa provides fantastic opportunities in beer and we think that things will only get better over the next few years, as incomes rise allowing more people to spend on branded beer.... 2011-03-16

South African retailers continue to do pretty well compared to the benchmark All-Share index. Although the South African consumer has in general terms not been recovering quite as quickly... 2011-03-15