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The opportunity for innovation in toilet care is limited, all the more so given the area's lack of consumer appeal. Toilet care lacks consumer appeal because of its image as a basic product lacking in added value. This leaves toilet care, especially toilet liquids, exposed to high levels of price competition.

Polishes performed similarly in 2012 as in 2011, with the steadily improving economic conditions in the United Arab Emirates helping sales in this category. Furthermore, the trend towards more formal and expensive footwear has benefited shoe polish as consumers strive to take proper care of their shoes. Polish for flooring and wooden furniture also performed well as consumers generally take good care of their wooden furniture and floors and often employ live-in domestic staff to complete...

The review period saw development of the category and distribution of its products. The variety of products offered also increased. Growing availability of higher quality products gave consumers greater choice. Facing tightened economic conditions Russian consumers became more rational, preferring less expensive but healthier products. Russian consumers are still able to spend extra on a product as long as it offers added value. Brand name alone is no longer sufficient.

Homeshopping continued to face strong threats from other retailing formats in 2012. Internet retailing in particular has dampened growth, and major homeshopping players such as Polimport Comercio e Exportacao and Sociedade Comercial e Importacao Hermes are building up their internet sales capabilities in response. Homeshopping has remained somewhat popular mainly in rural areas, where few consumers have credit cards and internet penetration rates remain low. Consumers in these areas also see...

Euromonitor International's Industrial reports provide a 360 degree view of an industry. The Industrial market report offers a comprehensive guide to the size and shape of the Monetary Intermediation market at a national level. It provides the latest retail sales data, allowing you to identify the sectors driving growth. It identifies the leading companies, the leading brands and offers strategic analysis of key factors influencing the market - be they new product developments, packaging innovations, economic/lifestyle influences, distribution or pricing issues. Forecasts illustrate how the market is set to change.

Soup remained an extremely small market in 2012 with the only product available being dehydrated soup. Retail value sales registered just TND2.5 million with growth of nearly 3% in 2012. Volume growth was slightly higher at 4%, although very small volume sales mean that consumers are not that interested in buying packaged soup as they tend to make soups at home, typically from scratch.

The review period was not successful for non-grocery retailing. This was especially evident during 2008-2010, impacted by the economic slowdown with the subsequent decline in consumer activity; however, in 2012 the channel fully recovered. This was supported by the recovery of consumers' financial profile, continuous improvement of their living standards and constantly rising confidence. This generated higher consumer activity in non-grocery retailing. In 2012, non-grocery retailers saw retail...

Denmark's telecoms market is characterised by slow revenue and subscriber growth in the mobile and broadband sectors, declining subscriptions in the fixed-line sector, and low margins across all services. This is mainly because of market saturation and regulatory directives that aim to improve competition, as well as customer willingness to regularly switch service providers. In the future, BMI expects growth in the telecoms market to be driven by converged services and other data-centric mobile and fixed services.

All in all, our outlook for the Canadian economy has not changed in the past quarter, with incoming data confirming our view that growth would slow into 2013. Household consumption will continue to increase during the year, although caution regarding discretionary spending will impact short-to-medium-term development of food and drink sales values, especially as the price-based competition in the mass grocery retail sector intensifies with the pending entry of Target and the expansion of Walmart.

In 2012, BMI estimates that passenger car sales increased 5.3% in 2012. Consumer confidence increased moderately over the year, although we believe it remained relatively subdued. This partly drove the rise in passenger car sales, but we believe that the main causes were large pent-up demand in the market and heavy discounting by auto companies.

We forecast Russia's mining industry value to reach US$160bn by 2017, growing at an annual average rate of 1.3% from 2011 levels. We believe strong growth in 2010 and 2011 will be followed by years of slowing growth as palladium and platinum production in the country experience modest increases over the coming years. Nevertheless, we have a positive view on the Russian mining industry given the country's vast unexplored mineral resources. The coal sector is promising as the government plans to invest RUB3.7trn (US$120bn) in the sector between 2012 and 2030.

Despite enjoying a spritely recovery following the global financial crisis, the Belgian economy is now struggling against mounting headwinds from the eurozone.

The rapid rise of LTE in South Korea ensures it remains one of the world's most developed markets. Operators reported upgrades from 3G to 4G had seen LTE subscriptions reach 15mn by the end of 2012. BMI expects this trend to continue with operators keen to generate growing income from their LTE investments. Early signs suggest ARPU may be growing, but it is still early days for the technology and promotions may lower prices as conversions slow and competition for new subscribers increases. We believe LTE has the potential to further slow the growth in fixed broadband technologies in South Korea if wireless broadband can offer similar service speeds.

With Saudi Arabia sets to remain on a solid growth path through 2013 as the non-oil sector continues to expand on the back of booming household expenditure and another strongly expansionary budget has been approved by the government, the short-term picture for the power sector is bright.

Vietnamese IT spending is expected to reach VND62,604bn (US$3.01bn) in 2013, up 18.6% from 2012. The macroeconomic environment is supportive of faster growth, boosting trends within the IT sector. Rising PC penetration, a range of government ICT initiatives and a campaign to develop Vietnam's domestic IT industry will help to sustain expansion. Meanwhile, there is strong demand for ERP solutions and cloud computing revenues are expected to report at least 300% growth over the five-year forecast period to 2017. The outsourcing market is also expected to expand rapidly over the medium term as enterprises, particularly in Japan, switch business away from China in search of cost savings.

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The UAE telecoms market posted strong growth across the mobile, fixed-line and internet sectors in 2012, highlighting the country's sound economic outlook and the continued influx of migrant workers and temporary visitors. We expect positive subscriber growth to continue in the short term, but we caution that operators will need to step up efforts to migrate existing customers to higher value services in view of the inevitable slowdown of subscriber acquisition in the future due to market saturation.

The Philippine telecoms market harbours low-term growth opportunities in light of factors such as the high percentage of prepaid subscribers and comparatively low broadband penetration rate. At present, the overall industry has not been negatively impacted by the acquisition of Digital Telecommunications Philippines by the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) even though several market segments have become a duopoly.

Russia's pharmaceutical market continues to be one of the most attractive in the Emerging Europe region, primarily due to its sheer market size, growing economy and increasing government investment in healthcare. The main transformation in the market over the last decade has been the growth of the state's role, both in establishing an industrial policy and investing in production for the first time since the end of the Soviet Union. Key drivers of growth for pharmaceuticals include programmes to fund medicines for specific segments and disease groups, as well as a pledged universal medicines insurance system due to be put into place later in the decade. Russia's recent World Trade Organization accession should drive improvements in the country's intellectual property (IP) environment, and enforcement in particular, which has been conspicuously lacking.

Whilst we anticipate growth in the US construction sector to slow in 2013, following a strong rebound estimated in 2012, there are bright spots in the industry.

A trend that began about a decade ago for telecommunications network operators has accelerated in recent years. This trend, to outsource infrastructure as well as certain operational support to third party managed communications providers, is reaching a next stage in evolution. Historically, telecom operators have looked to service bureau providers for intermediation services, database services, and various OSS/BSS support. The more recent trend has been to outsource infrastructure as a service as a means of reducing Capital Expenditure (CapEx) and to use as negotiation leverage for improved pricing on next generation networks such as IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and LTE infrastructure such as Voice over LTE (VoLTE).

The importance of Puerto Rico as a major production hub for multinational pharmaceutical companies will continue to deteriorate due to drug patent expiration, production quality issues, increasing labour and other operational costs, and the potential tax increase from the local government.

The report examines how best to maximise returns in the Venezuelan retail market while minimising investment risk, and also explores the impact of the February 2013 devaluation of Venezuela's currency on the consumer, and on the ability of producers and exporters to realise returns in the short term.

Although we are optimistic about Poland's economic growth prospects, expecting an expansion of 1.9% in 2013 and expect steady headline GDP expansion thereafter, we are more cautious regarding metal consumption and production prospects. Key metal consuming segments such as autos and particularly construction will underperform.

GlobalData's clinical trial report, "Sjogren's Syndrome Global Clinical Trials Review, H1, 2013" provides data on the Sjogren's Syndrome clinical trial scenario. This report provides elemental information and data relating to the clinical trials on Sjogren's Syndrome. It includes an overview of the trial numbers and their recruitment status as per the site of trial conduction across the globe. The databook offers a preliminary coverage of disease clinical trials by their phase, trial status, prominence of the sponsors and also provides briefing pertaining to the number of trials for the key drugs for treating Sjogren's Syndrome. This report is built using data and information sourced from proprietary databases, primary and secondary research and in-house analysis by GlobalData's team of industry experts.