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In 2014, frozen processed food recorded a current growth rate of 14% in value terms, reaching R$6.2 billion in 2014. Despite of the leadership that Brf Brasil Food has in this category, the competition between Brf Brasil Foods and Seara, a brand from JBS SA continued to increase sharply in 2014.

The volume and value growth of noodles in Nigeria continues to be strong, despite an already strong range of brands and relative maturity. Apart from population growth and the convenience trend, stiff competition between the makers of the traditionally dominant brand, Indomie, and other players, helped continue to drive strong growth in noodles. Most companies engage in aggressive marketing of brands through advertisement, promotional sales, introduction of new flavours, brand repackaging, and strong distribution efforts. Newer brands continue to enter the market, including now regional or small local brands, indicating that there is a possibility that given the strong sales, there is scope for many more brands in the market. New, expensive, types of noodles, such as cups/bowl instant noodles, are also more prevalent, particularly in modern retail channels.

"Global Executives Survey: Craft Products - Consumer Expectations and Organizations Strategic Approach" is a new report by Canadean that analyzes key attributes associated with craft products, opinion about capability of major brands/ multinational businesses to launch "craft" products. The report also examines executive opinion about the projected change in number of craft product launches in the industry over the next three years, and analyzes budget expectations for craft production over the next twelve months. Furthermore, the report analyzes the significance of craft production from consumer, industry, and company points of view.

The Future of the Italy Defense Industry - Market Attractiveness, Competitive Landscape and Forecasts to 2020, published by Strategic Defense Intelligence, provides readers with a detailed analysis of both historic and forecast defense industry values, factors influencing demand, the challenges faced by industry participants, analysis of industry leading companies, and key news.

Vietnam's Travel and Tourism sector performed well during the historic period (2010-2014), driven by growth in both the domestic and inbound tourism markets. Government initiatives that focused on promoting tourism during the national holidays contributed to the growth in domestic tourism. In 2014, Thua Thien Hue registered the largest annual growth of 8.1% in the number of domestic trips, driven by various discount offers on tour packages. The tourism industry of Thua Thien Hue also held road shows in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi to attract more domestic tourists. Infrastructural development and tourism investment in emerging source countries such as Russia, Japan, and South Korea contributed to the growth in inbound tourism. Although China remains the leading tourist inbound country in 2014, the growth in tourist arrivals from China was significantly slow in the months of May and June, due to anti-Chinese riots in Vietnam in May 2014.

Dried processed food is a fast-growing market in Nigeria as it comprises products that are staples in Nigeria, such as rice, or that have become almost staples, such as noodles. Apart from bread, rice is Nigeria's major staple food; although it has been losing out to the strong growth of noodles, packaged rice in smaller packets has started to grow well in Nigeria. The range of brands within packaged rice has increased well in 2013 and 2014 as manufacturers try to exploit the growing potential...

In 2014, only one store card was available in Chile. Empresas Hites, through its Hites brand, offers the Tarjeta Hites card to its customers. The card combines the functionality of being an entry card and payment card with a revolving credit. The company operates the card itself and is not linked to any other operators active in the market. In addition, Hites is a mixed retailer that targets middle-low consumers and its core business activities include consumer appliances and electronics, home...

The Greek economy has not yet recovered from the deep hole into which it slid over the course of the review period, a situation which has left large numbers of Greek consumers with very low disposable incomes and very little confidence about their economic situations. Consumption behaviour has changed markedly in recent years, with the majority of consumers now strictly adhering to pre-compiled shopping lists when shopping for groceries, as well as preferring any products with low unit prices.

The Malaysian power sector is set to grow at a slower rate in 2015 than in preceding years as we expect no thermal projects to be completed in that year. However, we expect sector growth to accelerate after 2015 as most of the major thermal projects being developed in Malaysia for completion after 2015 are on schedule.

In 2014, refrigeration appliances posted a 5% decline in retail volume sales, registering a total of 7 million units. This performance was the result of the worsening of macroeconomic scenario in the year, when the GDP posted real growth close to zero and inflation remained persistent, hovering above the central bank?s 2.5%-6.5% target band. This contributed to reduced consumer confidence, which had a stronger negative impact on durable goods.

Global Fruits and vegetables industry guide provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value and volume 2010-14, and forecast to 2019). The guide also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within 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 Air Transport 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.

This report is the result of Timetric's extensive market research covering the commercial construction industry in New Zealand. It contains detailed historic and forecast market value data for the commercial construction industry, including a breakdown of the data by construction activity (new construction, repair and maintenance, refurbishment and demolition). 'Commercial Construction in New Zealand to 2018: Market Forecast' provides a top-level overview and detailed insight into the operating environment of the commercial construction industry in New Zealand. It is an essential tool for companies active across the New Zealand construction value chain and for new players considering to enter the market.

The debit card remained the leading payment card type in Denmark, accounting for an 89% value share of all card payment transactions in 2014. Debit cards continued to be the most popular payment method due to a long tradition, high merchant acceptance and low costs to consumers. The Dankort (the national debit card) and the Visa/Dankort (the international debit card Dankort co-badged with Visa) incur relatively low levels of annual fees. Since new regulations from the EU were implemented in...

The report provides in-depth market analysis, information and insights into the Vietnamese personal accident and health insurance segment, including:

BMI View: The broadband sector is witnessing strong growth on the back of investments in next generation wireless and wireline networks and the demand for multiplay services. This will lead to the outperformance of telecoms service providers offering convergence services in volume and value terms.

The development of the Slovenian IT market was stymied in 2012 and 2013 by the challenging economic environment - but BMI now forecasts a more robust economic recovery in Slovenia from 2014, which should put the IT market back on a faster medium term growth trajectory . Despite the major challenges faced in recent years the IT market has performed relatively well, and as confidence returns there will be opportunities for vendors. Privatisations by the government, the wider trend of modernisation of enterprises and public administration underpin our forecast for a compound annual growth rate ( CAGR ) of 3. 0 % between 2014 and 2018. Enterprise spending growth will be the strongest area of the market, especially newer technologies such as cloud computing, but we also highlight opportunities in the retail market. Tablet penetration is low, at just 13.8% in 2013, indicating significant growth potential remains in the market.

The report provides in-depth market analysis, information and insights into the Singaporean reinsurance segment, including:

Sales of baked goods are governed by a move back to basic, authentic and naturally-healthy products. Ingredients manufacturers are taking advantage of the opportunity to propose additives aimed at giving an authentic and old-style taste and consistency - for instance, a mix proposed by Puratos, O-tentic, which is aimed at achieving the taste of bread of yesteryear. This quest for more natural and authentic bread is also exemplified by the ongoing development of the "clean label" trend. For...

In contrast with the negative growth which has been recorded in store-based retailing in Slovenia ever since the onset of the economic crisis in 2009, non-store specialists sales in Slovenia registered steady positive growth throughout very review period. Low consumer purchasing power has actually benefitted some non-store specialists channels such as internet retailing, which is attracting increasing number of price-sensitive consumers on account of the lower prices charged for online as well...

The desire for ostentatious consumption used to drive luxury accessories sales, with people favouring bags with a large and obvious logo to show off. However, with many fake products becoming available and consumer preferences changing towards low-key products, no-logo or small logo products are more popular in China. For example, Gucci announced it was to reduce production of bags with its double G logo. There are more new items with the logo "Made in Italy by Gucci" in a small font, instead...

Rapid economic development in Asian countries has benefitted the South Korean Travel and Tourism sector across all categories - domestic, inbound, and outbound - in terms of both tourism flows and expenditure. The increasing popularity of Korean popular culture, known as the Korean wave, has increased tourist arrivals from Southeast Asia and India. According to the World Economic Forum Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index 2013, South Korea ranked sixth among 25 countries in terms of overall travel and tourism in Asia-Pacific.

Ownership of pets other than cats and dogs is mainly driven by the urban population, especially families. As sales of other pet food are expected to increase constantly over the forecast period, advertising and marketing efforts can influence consumer behaviour so that feeding habits move from non-prepared food to pet-customised products; however, this shift can only be made gradually and limited change was noticed in 2014 compared to the previous year. Over the forecast period, product diversification will be presented as a way of convincing customers to switch to pet-specific food products.

The decline in the price of naphtha is posing a major challenge to the competitiveness of Saudi-based petrochemicals production, which is overwhelmingly based on ethane, according to BMI's latest Saudi Arabia Petrochemicals Report.

The Future of the Suncare Market in Turkey to 2018 is the result of Canadean's extensive market research. The report presents detailed analysis on the Suncare consumption trends in Turkey, historic and forecast Suncare consumption volumes and values at market and category level, brand share and distribution channel data. This report brings together Canadean Intelligence's research, modeling and analysis expertise in order to develop uniquely detailed market data. This allows domestic and foreign companies to identify the market dynamics to account for Suncare sales overall and to know which categories and segments are showing growth in the coming years.