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Energy Drinks in Brazil by Mintel Global Market Navigator provides you with annual year-end market size data, most recently updated in 2014. This market covers sugar-free and regular energy drinks and shots. Energy drinks are marketed with additives specifically designed to increase alertness. Market size comprises sales through all retail channels including direct to consumer including vending machines. Market value is calculated at prices in retailers. Market size for Energy Drinks in Brazil is given in BRL and litre with a minimum of five years' historical data. Market Forecast is provided for five years. Included with this snapshot is socio-economic data for Brazil. Population, Consumer Price Index (CPI), Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Exchange Rates.

Growth in total beer volume sales in 2013 was much stronger than was expected, and evidently faster than the CAGR for the entire review period. This improvement was partly due to a price war between category leaders Cerveceria Centroamericana and AmBev Centroamerica, and their low prices made it possible for new consumers to buy beer, and old consumers to consume more frequently and a greater quantity per time. In addition, imported premium lager had a strong year, with more than 14 new international beer brands being distributed in the country.

Juice in Belgium by Mintel Global Market Navigator provides you with annual year-end market size data, most recently updated in 2014. This market covers all ambient and chilled liquid and frozen sales of fruit and vegetable pure juices, nectars, juice drinks and carbonated fruit juices i.e. which consumers can drink without adding water or frozen juice products which are reconstituted. It excludes syrups, cordial and squashes where consumers must add water. Market size is based on retail (off trade) and non-retail (on trade) sales. Market size for Juice in Belgium is given in EUR and litre with a minimum of five years' historical data. Market Forecast is provided for five years. Included with this snapshot is socio-economic data for Belgium. Population, Consumer Price Index (CPI), Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Exchange Rates.

The Russian metals sector will face headwinds over coming quarters as European and US demand remain s weak and global oversupply w eighs on metal prices. We expect production of key metals to remain modest , with company investment plans focusing on improving plant efficiency and reducing costs rather than building new plants or expanding production capacity. Despite weak growth, Russia will remain one of the world's largest producers of base and industrial metals including nickel, steel and aluminium.

Tissue and hygiene saw strong sales growth during the review period, benefiting from a marked rise in household penetration for many product areas. Rising disposable income levels during the review period encouraged low-income consumers to buy a widening range of products, such as toilet paper and napkins, while an expanding mid-income group boosted sales of products such as baby wipes and cotton buds. The growing participation of women in the workforce and busier lifestyles due to urbanisation...

Laundry care remained the leading category within home care in 2013, led by laundry detergents which registered an increasing presence of concentrated liquid detergents and liquid tablet detergents. The other notable trend was detergents with included laundry aids, such as the new Colon with Vanish from Reckitt Benckiser or Dixan Gel 2 in 1 from Henkel, with softener and anti-scouring agent.

This report brings together consumer insight and market data to provide a comprehensive brief of the Romanian Savory Snacks sector. This allows for the rapid identification of key growth opportunities across major Savory Snackscategories and their packaging.

Laundry care received one of its most dramatic shake-ups in nearly a decade with the introduction of liquid laundry detergent tablets. The product, while common in many other countries, had not previously been offered by many of the major laundry detergent manufacturers. Now, liquid laundry tablets have been launched by nearly every single major liquid laundry manufacturer, and have quickly been introduced to nearly every major distributor in the US. These products, while more expensive than other laundry detergents, offer premeasured detergents in a dissolvable pouch. Almost every major brand of liquid laundry tablets comes in stand-up pouches for the majority of the product line-up. The major deviation of this comes from Tide Pods, which has many of its larger sizes in large tubs that are shaped to look like the product, and have an easy-to-open lid. This caused some issues in the initial launch of the product, as children mistook the product for candy in a jar and tried to eat it. This forced Procter & Gamble to put extra labelling on the packaging to advise parents to keep the product out of the reach of children.

A total of 180,000 new vehicles were sold in Kuwait in 2013, according to information from the Focus2Move website. This represented 9.4% growth on the previous year. Looking forward, BMI remains upbeat on the medium-term outlook for the Kuwaiti new vehicle sales market, with the country offering strong growth potential in both the volume and high-end segments.

Japanese home care saw slow growth during the review period as a whole, with this linked to maturity in many product areas and a declining Japanese population. However, growth was also constrained by consumers' economic concerns during the review period. Economic and environmental concerns also encouraged many consumers to buy refill packs in many product areas, with these using less packaging and offering a lower unit price. This trend further constrained sales growth at the end of the review...

Global Markets Direct's, 'Acid Sphingomyelinase Deficiency (Niemann-Pick Disease) Type C - Pipeline Review, H2 2014', provides an overview of the Acid Sphingomyelinase Deficiency (Niemann-Pick Disease) Type C's therapeutic pipeline.

Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (Edwards) operates in the heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring industry. The company develops, manufactures and markets products and technologies used for the treatment of structural heart disease and critically ill patients. It develops and commercializes heart valve products such as tissue heart valves and repair products, which are used for the replacement of repairing of a patient's diseased or defective heart valve. Edwards also offers hemodynamic monitoring systems, which is used for the measurement of a patient's cardiovascular function in the hospital setting. The company operates across the US, Europe, Japan and rest of world. The company markets and sells its products and technologies through its direct sales force across over 100 countries. Edwards is headquartered in California, the US.

The government is taking steps to reduce France's dependence upon nuclear power and had been expected to adopt a law to determine how to do this. This follows on from President Hollande's electoral promise to curb the use of nuclear power. However, non-government bodies, such as the Renewable Energy Syndicate, believe that the government is not moving fast enough to meet its target - that 50% of electricity is generated by non-nuclear sources in 2025. The bill presented in June by Energy and Environment Minister S?gol?ne Royal designed to boost renewable sources suggests nuclear power production will remain capped at 63.2GW, the current levels.

Global Markets Direct's, 'Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)/ Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD) - Pipeline Review, H2 2014', provides an overview of the Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)/ Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD)'s therapeutic pipeline.

Breath analyzers are devices used to detect the presence of different compounds in a sample of breath of a person. Breath analyzers are most commonly used to measure the blood alcohol content in a sample of breath. These devices are a major tool in enforcing drink and drive laws. Other applications of breath analyzers include measuring the amount of drug abuse and detecting conditions such as asthma and tuberculosis. Breath analyzers can be for personal and professional use as well.

In recent years, Saudi Arabia has been witnessing a gradual increase in overall health-consciousness among the general public. An alarming obesity rate and associated diseases have compelled the government to initiate various programmes and awareness campaigns to encourage consumers to reduce their fat intake and improve their eating habits. Consumers are also becoming more aware of the hazards of unhealthy lifestyles thanks to growing exposure to the Western world through the increased penetration of the internet and broadcast media and are now starting to include nutritious food items in their diets. With a growing amount of literature surfacing about the health benefits associated with tea, the product's consumption is also on the rise.

Savory and Deli Foods Market in Somalia: Databook to 2017" is the result of Canadean's extensive market research covering the Savory and Deli Foods market in Somalia.

Nuclear Power in China, Market Outlook to 2025, Update 2014 - Capacity, Generation, Deployment Trends, Investments, Power Plants, Regulations, and Company Profiles" is the latest report from GlobalData, the industry analysis specialists that offer comprehensive information and understanding of the nuclear power market in China.

In 2012, rigid plastic was the dominant packaging format overall in beauty and personal care with a 53% unit volume share, paper-based containers with 20% and flexible packaging with 19% and This market is mature and saturated, with growth driven by trends such as the economy, the ageing Canadian population, increasing environmental awareness and changes in the retail environment (for example, the increasing emphasis on beauty and personal care products in drugstores, the shift in some Wal-Mart locations to hypermarkets and not least the increasing competition from modern Asian grocery stores that are creating in-store beauty boutiques to capture growing demand from the rising ethnic population).

A drive is an adjustable speed device that regulates the speed and direction of motors. Adjustment is done by varying the current flow through the motor. Drives are classified on the basis of the type of current into two broad categories: AC drives and DC drives. AC drives are used to control AC electric motors, while DC drives are used for DC electric motors. Drives are widely used in manufacturing industries to regulate and control electrical devices such as fans, conveyors, machine spindles, and pumps, which are used in production processes. AC drives are widely used in process industries to increase the energy efficiency of motors.

ApplyMap, a new app designed to help high school students maximize their college chances, has announced that they are undertaking a crowdfunding campaign on IndieGoGo. The company is aiming to raise $15,000 or more in order to build a special version of the site for non-profit organizations.

Global Markets Direct's, 'Neurofibromatoses Type II - Pipeline Review, H2 2014', provides an overview of the Neurofibromatoses Type II's therapeutic pipeline.

Evolutionary advancement in data center over the past several decades, from the mainframe era to client/server computing, and then on to the virtual data centre has changed the data center development and deployment to cater unique requirements of businesses and enterprises. Micro Datacenter solution providers handle internet and business generated data to maintain, monitor and reporting on consolidated environment. In other words, Micro Datacenter services can be availed by all the businesses who want to improve their baseline performance and infrastructure virtualization.

The Beer Insight Argentina report contains detailed brand, distribution and packaging data and analysis across the Argentinian beer market for 2013. Brand and packaging volume data is available whilst value data is also available for distribution data. Text analysis reveals the drivers behind the data.

With consumption growth, increasing consumer purchasing power, women's greater purchasing power and the rising life expectancies, this will lead to a rise in beauty and personal care sales volume, which is benefiting overall beauty and personal care packaging sales. In 2012, the overall packaging grew by 3% over 2011 and is expected to have a CAGR of 3% over the forecast period to reach a volume of 15.2 billion units in 2016.