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TechNavio's analysts forecast the Lead-acid Battery market in China to grow at a CAGR of 6.4 percent over the period 2011-2015. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increasing number of e-bike manufacturer. The Lead-acid Battery market in China has also been witnessing the shutdown of lead-acid battery manufacturers. However, an increase in pollution could pose a challenge to the growth of this market.

While a large part of the market is yet to understand their technological and strategic significance, Mobile Network APIs play a critical part in carrier networks as a secondary stream of revenue. Mobile Network APIs capitalize on existing network infrastructure to create a vast array of business opportunities for carriers worldwide. In essence, these APIs allow carriers to disseminate a wealth of internal information or resources to third parties. This could entail everything from network QoS for video service delivery to Subscriber Data Management (SDM) for advertising and profiling. One key goal is to enable third party developers to offer services in return for revenues.

Telecom Network APIs capitalize on existing network infrastructure to create a vast array of business opportunities for carriers worldwide. In essence, these APIs allow carriers to disseminate a wealth of internal information or resources to third parties. This could entail everything from network QoS for video service delivery to Subscriber Data Management (SDM) for advertising and profiling, the goal being to enable third party developers to offer services in return for revenues.

Repin is now Certified and Verified by Dun & Bradstreet - world's leading providers of global business information. Frankly, unless one see the manufacturing process of master batches, it is hard to imagine just how much of technology and hard work goes into getting the formulations right. We, most often don’t give a second thought to the packaging, marveling at the most at the attractive colors and designs that make give the product a hard-to-resist “pick-me-up-please” kind of look. Formulations vary depending on whether a supplier is designing a new master batch or copying someone else’s. It is considered best to be involved at the color conception stage where it’s possible to optimize formulation choice. Their difference also depends upon whether they are manually designed or computer generated.

Electronic cigarettes Suppliers being unreliable and fraud in many cases, www.ecigaretteson.com announces its association with reliable e-cigarette producing company. This website happily declares that the company Itsuwa Electronic Co., LTD has a reputation of using comparatively less amount of diethyl glycol as its anti freezing component. This makes the users of these electronic cigarettes less prone to asthma.

UK airport parking price comparison website 1stairportparking.co.uk has updated and improved its Aberdeen Airport Parking section, increasing its parking options, updating information and making sharing its content easier by adding bookmarking buttons to its pages.

Users of ANDTEK GmbH’s attendant console solution "AND Desktop AC" now have the ability to look into their team members’ Outlook calendars and to see their appointments, tasks, availability, events, and meetings. This will allow for faster and more informative call handling and improve customer service. ANDTEK’s attendant console solution is being used in enterprises of all sizes, including some with more than 100,000 employees, including insurance companies, financial services providers, auto manufacturers, and government departments including the German military.

Leaders in niche dating are proud to launch a new site especially for the local Norwegian singles market bringing the latest internet technology to bring romance to Norway.

Raspberry ketone supplements are one of the big weight loss success stories of 2012. Dr Oz discussed the weight loss properties of raspberry ketones earlier in the year, and along with a positive clinical study, it resulted in this latest weight loss phenomenon.

BMI View: As the Chinese government continues to boost agriculture productivity in its drive to ensure national food security, we expect government subsidies to continue to grow. In 2011, it reached a total of CNY134.5bn (USD21.2bn), with a large portion of it being channelled into seed, fertiliser and fuel subsidies. That said, we believe the country will inevitably grow more reliant on imports of key grains such as corn, sugar and even rice in the long term as consumption growth exceeds production growth. Yield improvement would be the fastest way to meet growing demand and we note that the recent verbal acceptance of genetically modified (GM) seeds is an acknowledgement of the need to recalibrate the government's previously staunch stand against GM products in this respect.

Our consumer outlook for Croatia takes into account the difficult domestic and external economic situation which will be further compounded by the March 2012 increase in value added tax (VAT) to 25%. Nevertheless, we highlight that the weak state of the domestic economy will see to it that a more pronounced increase in the price level is not felt this year. Similarly, food and drink value is not expected to rise dramatically as consumers increasingly turn to cheaper private label goods and cut down on nonessential spending.

While the general trend in mature markets is for declining average mileage in lieu of higher vehicle ownership ratios per household, the ongoing economic stagnation is causing motorists to seek financial savings by substituting vehicle use, thus decelerating their vehicles' wear rates and as a result reducing consumption of wear and tear parts on an annual basis.

Despite fears of political unrest across the Middle East region, travel and tourism continued to grow in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia benefiting from the stable and growing economy during the past years recording real GDP growth of 3% in 2011. Equally, travel and tourism saw hefty investments in 2011 from the public and private sector in the attempt to promote the Kingdom's tourism industry and divert the economy's dependence on oil.

Being able to charge a price premium is the holy grail for brands, but consumers feel subjected to claim overload. Some resonate more strongly than others. This interactive model focuses on six key product claims in the beauty market. What is most likely to make consumers pay more? And how does this vary by age, gender, and location?

Peptides are an important class of drugs, but their potential for treating chronic diseases will be fully realized only if more acceptable delivery methods than daily injections can be developed. Recognition of this has led to advances in oral, intranasal, inhaled, transdermal, and buccal formulations. This report analyses the products and companies at the forefront of such research.

Personal & Professional Service Robotics Market - Global Forecast & Assessment by Applications & Geography (2012 - 2017)

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BMI View: Kazakhstan's construction industry is forecast to post strong growth in 2012, driven by demand for the country's resources. Year-on-year (y-o-y) growth is at 6.0% for 2012 rising as high as 9% by 2014. The industry value is expected to increase from US$15.2bn in 2012 to US$29.2bn by the end of our forecast period in 2016. Despite strong growth figures, long-term political stability does raise some potential issues for the country.

BMI is forecasting a recession in Iran in 2012 and 2013 as the Middle Eastern country struggles to maintain itself economically in the face of sanctions against its crude oil exports, the primary source of revenue in the country. Despite this, BMI's Shipping team projects growth at the country's primary container port Bandar Abbas, albeit at less than 1%. The sanctions against the export of Iranian crude are having wider reverberations, and are redrawing shipping lanes as importers of Iranian crude look to other markets to provide their energy needs.

BMI View: Colombia's IT market is forecast to increase to US$3.0bn in 2012, up by around 11%, with our five-year forecast upwardly revised from Q212. Colombian IT spending is projected to grow at a CAGR of 12% during 2012-2016, driven by government ICT initiatives and improving infrastructure. The consumer-driven economic boom of recent years may have come to an end, but rising incomes and greater computer affordability will result in more spending on IT products and services. Percapita IT spend is projected to rise by 47% from US$59 in 2012 to US$92 by 2016.

If consumer lending maintains the downward trend followed for much of 2011, we also expect minimal growth in passenger car sales, although we do believe positive growth can be achieved from the low base in 2011.This is perhaps reflected in growth of manufacturers of smaller cars. Kia Motors continues to be one of the strongest brands in terms of sales, posting growth figures of 21.1% y-o-y in the first five months of 2012. The South Korean brand has also raised its market share to 4.5%. While Ford Motor continues to lead the market, with stable growth of 4.4% in the first five months of 2012, the biggest gain among the Detroit Three again came from Chrysler, which increased its sales by 8.7% year-on-year (y-oy), and expanded its market share from 14.5% at the end of 2011 to 15.2% in this period.

BMI View: Weakening economic activity, deteriorating credit quality, external deleveraging effects and concerns over government policy will together weigh heavily on the performance of Hungarian banks in 2012, and in turn their capacity to support the country's broader economic recovery. While an IMF deal is expected to be reached by the government within the next couple of months, which should help to underpin broader stability, this will not wholly mitigate the headwinds facing the Hungarian commercial banking sector. Banks' ability to generate profits is already severely constrained, and we believe the need will arise for additional capital raisings further down the line. Hungary's banking sector faces an extremely challenging 2012. While we hold to our view that the government will obtain a new IMF Stand-By Arrangement deal within the next few months, which should help to bolster broader economic and financial stability, banks face myriad economic and policy risks which will not disappear overnight. Recent data released by the Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB) highlight the ongoing weaknesses in the domestic banking sector (see chart below), and in light of a deteriorating macroeconomic backdrop, we have been prompted to downgrade our forecast for loan growth in 2012 to just 2.0% from 5.0% previously. Similarly, asset growth will come in at just 1.0%, down from 4.0% previously. Below we highlight the major headwinds facing the industry over a medium-term time horizon. Faltering Economy: Hungary's economy is set to contract by 1.5% this year owing to a combination of tighter government policy, faltering eurozone economic activity and deleveraging by foreign parent banks (see below). While a new IMF deal should help to stabilise financial markets, it is unlikely to stimulate business or consumer confidence for the foreseeable future (particularly given the private sector's stillsizeable stock of external debt). In turn, this will weigh on overall demand for new credit, while rising bankruptcies and unemployment as well as higher interest rates will see to it that banks' asset quality continues to weaken. Deteriorating Credit Quality: According to the most recent data released by the MNB, banks' asset quality deteriorated at an alarming rate in the first two quarters of 2011 (most recent data available). Indeed, non-performing loans within the corporate sector (as a percentage of total loans) hit 16.0% in the second quarter of 2011, up from 13.6% in Q111 and 12.5% in Q410. Similarly, non-performing loans within the household sector rose to 12.8% as of Q311, up from just 9.4% in Q310 (see chart below). This will demand greater loan-loss provisions by banks, which in turn will erase any potential for profit in the domestic market. While banking capital as a percentage of total liabilities remains above the 8.0% level, we see strong scope for banks needing to raise new capital further down the line. External Deleveraging: We

BMI View: The expectation for a strong grain harvest in Algeria in 2012/13 has not mitigated concerns over food price inflation, which reached 14% year-on-year (y-o-y) in March. That said, much of this inflation is due to rising prices for meat, legumes and fish; grain price inflation had only approached 6% y-o-y in March. Ultimately, the country's food security is likely to remain fairly stable once the harvest comes online in June. Over the long term, we expect Algeria to remain a large player in the wheat import market, as a growing population means that average consumption will most likely outpace production growth. We expect most of these imports to be supplied by the 27 European Union member states and countries from the Black Sea region.

BMI's Qatar real estate report examines growth opportunities and risks in this fast-growing Gulf market. Our 2012 forecasts see a 5-10% rise in rents in the office, retail and industrial rental segments of our three surveyed cities: Doha, Al-Khor and Al-Wakra. The Qatari industrial sub-sector is limited by the shift away from rentals and towards direct development. Qatar's office and retail segments are growing fast and present bullish medium-term prospects, despite the fact that 2011 saw large falls in rental rates in these segments, particularly in Doha. The tourism sector presents significant growth potential, despite its nascent stage, suggesting that the retail segment will be less likely to suffer from oversupply than the office segment.