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Company Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Partnerships & Alliances and Investments reports offer a comprehensive breakdown of the organic and inorganic growth activity undertaken by an organization to sustain its competitive advantage.

This report is the result of Timetric's extensive market research covering the non-life insurance industry in Estonia. It contains detailed historic and forecast data for property insurance. 'Property Insurance in Estonia to 2017: Market Databook' provides detailed insight into the operating environment of the non-life insurance industry in Estonia. It is an essential tool for companies active across the Estonian non-life insurance value chain and for new players considering to enter the market.

Company Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Partnerships & Alliances and Investments reports offer a comprehensive breakdown of the organic and inorganic growth activity undertaken by an organization to sustain its competitive advantage.

Company Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Partnerships & Alliances and Investments reports offer a comprehensive breakdown of the organic and inorganic growth activity undertaken by an organization to sustain its competitive advantage.

Company Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Partnerships & Alliances and Investments reports offer a comprehensive breakdown of the organic and inorganic growth activity undertaken by an organization to sustain its competitive advantage.

Facial Care in the United States industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market share, market size (value and volume 2007-2011, and forecast to 2016). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the United States facial care market. Includes market size and segmentation data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.

"Trends and Opportunities in the Norwegian Personal Accident and Health Insurance Industry to 2016: Market Profile" is the result of extensive research into the insurance industry covering the personal accident and health insurance market in Norway. It provides insights into the Nordic insurance market dynamics and an overview of the Norwegian insurance industry. This report also includes growth prospects for the personal accident and health insurance market in Norway and sub-segments such as personal accident, travel insurance and health insurance, and provides details of sub-products in each market. This report also provides detailed analysis of the various distribution channels in the Norwegian personal accident and health insurance market.

This report is the result of Timetric's extensive market research covering the personal accident and health insurance industry in the UAE. It contains detailed historic and forecast data for investments. 'Personal Accident and Health Insurance Investments in the UAE to 2016: Market Databook' provides detailed insight into the operating environment of the personal accident and health insurance industry in the UAE. It is an essential tool for companies active across the UAE personal accident and health insurance value chain and for new players considering to enter the market.

After the negative performances of 2009 and 2010, the category's decline slowed in 2011, with colour cosmetics registering a drop of just 2% in current value terms to EUR21 million. Compared to the review period CAGR, this represented a slight improvement. The category was achieving positive results until 2009, which saw the arrival of the economic crisis.

Smokeless tobacco is losing retail volume and value share in tobacco because of changing lifestyles and people migrating from rural areas to towns. It is perceived as old-fashioned to consume Neffa and the main purchasers are elderly people in southern Tunisia, where it is a traditional type of tobacco. Moreover, RNTA has not pushed sales, focusing instead on cigarettes and smoking tobacco. The trend of younger people moving from rural areas to towns in search of work means that they tend to...

Chilled processed food is quite a significant category in Belarus. Consumption is traditionally high due to the popularity of chilled processed meat. In 2012 the category benefited from a wide product selection and strong competition among domestic manufacturers. Some chilled processed meat and chilled fish/seafood products are still sold loose, over the counter. Moreover, some Belarusian consumers, particularly in rural areas, frequently purchase unprocessed fresh or frozen meat and fish.

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 Weapons and Ammunition 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.

Health and beauty specialist retailers post healthy growth thanks to increased awareness of self-medication in the health channel, resulting in more consumers turning to chemists/pharmacies and parapharmacies/drugstores for advice instead of doctors' visits. Beauty specialist retailers also see positive growth at 11% as more products come into the market.

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 Hospitals, Medical and Dental Services 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.

Relative to its performance during the review period, with a current value CAGR of 5% and a volume CAGR of 1%, the soup category saw an improvement in 2012. With increasingly busy lifestyles, local consumers have less time for everyday cooking. Rising disposable incomes, combined with the demand for convenience, are supporting sales of soup, which is valued as being a quick meal solution that can be consumed on the go. Furthermore, 2012 saw several launches positioned to improve on packaged...

Whilst 2011 was a year of much innovation in terms of flavour, format and packaging, 2012 has been a quiet year for gum in South Africa. Leading manufacturers have focused on driving their core brands during a period of economic pressure due to the recent downturn.

Product differentiation within home laundry appliances saw the emergence of a time efficiency model in 2012, in response to an increase in dual-income households due to economic uncertainty in recent years. Doing laundry is the most time-consuming housework and so upgrading to a time efficiency model can offer savings on the time it takes to complete housework. This new feature was added to existing models with longstanding water efficient and energy efficient features. The energy efficient...

Peru's economy experienced a healthy performance during 2012, which positively impacted consumers' disposable incomes. As a result, they increased their expenditure on both basic and non-essential items. Moreover, leading businesses boosted sales by continually issuing their store credit cards to new clients and their progressive expansion to lower-income districts in Lima, as well as in provinces seeking to appeal to a larger consumer base.

Political uncertainty will continue to affect the Egyptian economy in 2013 as the country continues on its rocky transitional period towards democracy. This uncertainty will, in turn, continue to affect the freight transport sector as a worsening economic position will impact on the country's demand for cargo transportation, either as a result of muted private consumption or a lack of significant infrastructure projects as foreign direct investment dries up. As a result, our forecasts for the Egyptian rail and air freight, and the ports sector are largely sedate, though the transhipment hub of East Port Said - less reliant on domestic demand - is expected to outperform.

BMI View: Financial sanctions imposed to pressure the Iranian government over its nuclear programme are playing havoc with the country's ability to import goods. Food price inflation is soaring, leading to a serious decrease in meat consumption. The replacement of barter for regular trade can be seen as a feasible, albeit temporary, way of circumventing sanctions to meet demand. Over the longer term, we believe that the continued investment by the government in infrastructure - such as the improvement of irrigation systems - will help the country to turn away from its backward agrarian system and will yield results in terms of better-quality grains. We are especially upbeat in our outlook for grains and sugar production.

BMI View: Qatar sits on the world's third-largest proven gas reserves, which are concentrated in the offshore North Field. The country's robust efforts to commercialise these deposits have resulted in Qatar becoming the world's largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter. Our forecasts project that Qatar will retain this title over the forecast period, albeit with increasing competition from new entrants to the global LNG market by the end of the decade. The successful deployment of gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology will also support its petroleum export volumes, although pricing dynamics must remain accommodative for GTL technology to remain economical over the long term. Qatar's crude oil prospects are less exciting, as its oil reserves are modest in comparison with its Persian Gulf neighbours.

BMI View: There was strong subscription growth in the Ukrainian mobile market during 2012, with y-o-y growth of 7.3% to Q412. Operators also benefited from increases to mobile ARPU over the course of 2012. However, the growth trend is unsustainable in the medium term considering market saturation, while ARPU levels are set to decline from 2013 onwards due to increasing competition and the introduction of mobile number portability. In terms of data services, Ukraine sits at the bottom of the league table for Central And Eastern Europe, having only licensed one operator for 3G services, exacerbating the geographic difficulties of extending fixed broadband coverage.

In the increasingly complex cloud computing scenario, there exists a dire need to amalgamate all cloud-based services and offerings on an integrated platform, to ensure seamless delivery to the end-user. With a wide array of offerings spanning across infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-service (PaaS), Business Process as a Service (BPaaS), and many alike; the cloud marketplace is progressively becoming more diverse and hence, incoherent at the same time. In order to address this seemingly large gap between different standards, platforms, services, and offerings, a unified platform seems to be the only resort, and is ascertained to bridge the gap.

Injectable Drug Delivery Market by Formulations [Liposomes, Microspheres, & Nanoparticles], Devices [Disposables & Reusable, Fillable & Prefilled, Pen, Needle Free & Auto Injectors] & Therapeutics [Diabetes & Oncology] - Global Forecasts to 2017

Seed Treatment Market By Type (Chemical & Non-Chemical), Application (Fungicide, Insecticide, Bio-Control & Others) & Crop (Cereals, Oilseeds & Others) - Global Trends, Forecasts & Technical Insights up to 2018The global seed treatment market consists of crop protection chemicals or agrochemicals, specifically for seeds, and genetically modified (GM) crop-seeds. Crop protection chemicals are the most dominating segment of this market in terms of market share as well as product innovations. Seed treatment market is further classified as insecticides (chemical), fungicides (chemical), bio-control seed treatments, and other seed treatment chemicals.