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Jewellery in China continued to record vigorous retail value growth in 2014, up 18%. This was mainly attributed to the rising disposable incomes, the growing middle-class population and continuous urbanisation, especially in lower-tier cities where growth momentum remains strong. In addition, as 2014, the Year of the Horse, was an auspicious year for weddings in Chinese culture, demand for wedding jewellery strongly drove the overall progression of jewellery in the country. Furthermore, the peak year of births, stimulated by the second-child policy, also contributed to the buoyant growth in 2014 as Chinese people consider gold and gem stones to bring babies? good fortune and to help them avoid disaster.

The 2-20 Family of Companies is a group of records and information management companies consisting of Arizona Records Storage Center, Storetrieve serving California, Certified Records Management serving Florida and InfoStore Records Management serving the New York tri-state area. For the coming New Year, the operations managers across all of these businesses are receiving Six Sigma training.

We maintain a positive outlook for the Vietnamese IT market in the latest update, but we highlight increased downside risk from a tightening of domestic credit conditions into 2015 as a result of a build up of bad debt. Credit markets could cause short - term disruption but our forecast for robust medium - term growth in Vietnamese IT spending remains in place, with a forecast for a compound annual growth rate ( CAGR ) of 12.6 % between 2014 and 2018. We expect growth will be driven by rising incomes, enterprise modernisation and the policy environment put in place by the government. We also highlight larger opportunities in the retail market where penetration of devices and services remains below the level in neighbouring markets , which vendors will be able to tap as incomes rise. Meanwhile, Vietnam 's development as an outsourcing destination is a significant medium - term factor, with the services segment expected to expand rapidly. T here is also increasing momentum towards Vietnam becoming a global centre for electronics production as wages rise in China and manufacturers look to protect margins by moving to Vietnam , where wages are as little as a third of those in China.

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With more events and media articles aiming to enhance eye protection knowledge among the mass population, more people are becoming better informed when choosing contact lenses. As a result, consumers value convenience and hygiene concerns more seriously and consider disposable contact lenses to be more appropriate for eye health sustainability. The upgrade in consumption patterns that has taken place in contact lenses fuelled the category?s value growth and will support healthy growth in the forecast period.

As of late 2014, the news flow confirms that Pakistan is a very challenging insurance market, and one that is still basically at an embryonic level of development. However, premiums are growing rapidly, and the strengths of the local insurers are obvious.

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Following energy sector reform Mexico will garner significant foreign investment. We remain optimistic toward Mexico's long-term growth outlook on the back of a booming manufacturing sector, an increasingly strong private consumer and favourable demographics. We forecast real GDP growth of 3.7% in 2015, up from 2.6% in 2014.

In view of the substantial headwinds facing the Venezuelan economy, the country's real GDP is likely to contract by 2. 0 % in 2014 and grow by only 0.8 % in 2015. Despite enormous natural resource wealth, the economy's outlook will continue to be dimmed by poor macroeconomic governance, high inflation, low oil prices and significant political uncertainty. Furthermore, we expect household consumption to continue to be constrained by high inflation, which has substantially eroded purchasing power (we forecast headline CPI price growth rising to 60.8% year-on-year in 2014), as well as government price controls, which create market inefficiencies that significantly reduce productivity (and, by extension, incomes) .

Sales of audio separates, speakers and hi-fi systems have been declining for some time due to the growing popularity of digital music downloads. Digital music formats have become the preferred way users store and access their music. Smartphones are the central device for accessing this for many consumers and fuelled increased sales of digital media player docks, the only product to experience growth in 2014.

Our Country Risk team has slightly upgraded our 2015 real GDP growth forecast for China, but our outlook for the power sector remains relatively stable. This is because we continue to expect growth in electricity generation and consumption to slowdown in 2015. In terms of electricity generation, the country's growing pollution woes have prompted the central and state-level governments to try and reduce coal-fired generation while encouraging cleaner and costlier alternatives, as reflected in a revised energy strategy that was published by the State Council in November 2014. We note, however, that t hese alternatives are generally not as scalable or have as short a turnaround time as coal projects. As a result, greater use of these alternatives will lead to a slowdown in generation growth. On the consumption end, we believe that the hangover effects of China's economic stimulus are yet to be felt, and cooling credit growth is likely to reveal these effects over the coming quarters.

Aerospace Composites Market by Type (Glass Fiber, Carbon Fiber, Ceramic Matrix, Aramid Fiber, Metal Matrix), Aircraft Parts (Fuselage, Wings, Empennage), & Application (Commercial, Military, Business, Helicopters) - Global Trends & Forecasts to 2019

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Report forecast the Cement market in Saudi Arabia to grow at a CAGR of 5.14 percent over the period 2014-2019.

Report forecast the Commercial Vehicle Telematics market in the Americas to grow at a CAGR of 16.68 percent over the period 2014-2019.

Report forecast the Construction market in Nigeria to grow at a CAGR of 12.10 percent over the period 2014-2019.

Report forecast the Express Delivery market in China to grow at a CAGR of 27.06 percent over the period 2014-2019.

Report forecast the Global Aseptic Packaging market to grow at a CAGR of 9.33 percent over the period 2014-2019.

Report forecast the Global Disaster Recovery as a Service market to grow at a CAGR of 52.05 percent over the period 2014-2019.

Report forecast the Global Grinding Machine market to grow at a CAGR of 6.47 percent over the period 2014-2019.

Report forecast the Global High-performance Thermoplastics market to grow at a CAGR of 6.23 percent over the period 2014-2019.

Report forecast the Global Laptop Battery market to grow at a CAGR of 6.39 percent over the period 2014-2019.

Report forecast the Global Luxury Vehicle market to grow at a CAGR of 3.38 percent over the period 2014-2019.