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Austria Telecommunications Report
72 pages Pub date: 25 September 2008 Annual Austria is characterised by a stable political regime, a strong economy and comprehensive and timely development of its electronic communications markets, including telecommunications. Nevertheless, incumbent Telekom Austria dominates the fixed-line, mobile and broadband sectors through ownership of the country’s most exte... |
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Azerbaijan Oil & Gas Report
83 pages Pub date: 30 October 2008 Quarterly The latest Azerbaijan Oil & Gas Report from BMI forecasts that the country will account for 2.30% of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) regional oil demand by 2012, while providing 8.45% of supply. CEE regional oil demand rose to an estimated 5.46mn barrels per day (b/d) in 2007 and should average 5.61mn b/d in 2008, b... |
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Azerbaijan Petrochemicals Report
46 pages Pub date: 4 December 2008 Quarterly The Azerbaijan Petrochemicals Report has been researched at source, and features latest-available data covering oil and gas, oil refining, olefins (ethylene, propylene), polyolefin’s (polyethylene, polypropylene), polyvinyl chloride and polystyrene. |
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Baltics Tourism Report
35 pages Pub date: 11 March 2008 Annual Tourism Overview Official tourism arrival data for 2007 has not yet been released by the authorities in all three Baltic states. The clearest picture is emerging from Estonia, which welcomed some 1,330,262 tourists (excluding EU citizens) over the January-November 2007 period. This 11-month data points toward... |
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Belarus Defence & Security Report
43 pages Pub date: 29 February 2008 Annual Belarus faced something of a defence and security crossroads in 2007. An isolated and near pariahlike state in the international community, it had relied on a close strategic alliance with Russia to help shore up its economy and its defence and security position. But the dominant story of the year was the opening of a long... |
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Belarus Food & Drink Report
30 pages Pub date: 17 October 2008 Quarterly International investors have started to cautiously move into Belarus’ food and drink retail sector. There is currently very little in the way of an organised retail sector in Belarus, with food and drink sales dominated by independents and traditional markets. However, mass grocery retail (MGR) is slowly starting to take of... |
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Belarus Telecommunications Report
48 pages Pub date: 22 May 2008 Annual The telecommunications market in Belarus remains relatively closed to competition and is almost entirely under the control of the state. The government controls the market via the Ministry of Communications and Informatization (MCI), which effectively acts as the national regulator, issues licences, and oversees the develo... |
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Belgium Freight Transport Report
31 pages Pub date: 4 November 2008 Quarterly GDF Suez , the French gas and utilities company formed by the merger of GDF and Suez , said in early September that it had settled a dispute with Publigas , the Belgian state-owned holding group. Under the terms of the settlement, GDF Suez had agreed to sell to Publigas a 12% stake in Fluxys ,... |
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Belgium Oil & Gas Report
60 pages Pub date: 30 October 2008 Quarterly The new Belgium Oil & Gas Report from BMI forecasts that the country will account for 6.00% of developed European regional oil demand by 2012, while making no appreciable contribution to supply. In Developed Europe, overall oil consumption reached an estimated 14.26mn barrels per day (b/d) in 2007. It is set to ri... |
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Belgium Petrochemicals Report
31 pages Pub date: 25 February 2008 Annual The Belgium Petrochemicals Report has been researched at source, and features latest-available data covering oil and gas, oil refining, olefins (ethylene, propylene), polyolefin’s (polyethylene, polypropylene), polyvinyl chloride and polystyrene. |
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Belgium Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Report
68 pages Pub date: 10 October 2008 Quarterly Belgium’s pharmaceutical market was worth US$5.8bn in 2007 and should grow steadily in local currency terms over the remainder of the forecast period to 2012, due to the country’s high per-capita consumption of drugs and advanced medical sector. By 2012, the total market should reach a value of US$6.58bn. One of the larges... |
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Belgium Telecommunications Report
49 pages Pub date: 22 May 2008 Annual In this latest update on Belgium’s telecoms market, BMI has updated and extended its forecasts for the development of Belgium’s fixed-line, internet, broadband and mobile sectors. Although the fixed-line sector continues to decline, we expect strong broadband growth to continue, and anticipate that mobile subscriber growth... |
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Bosnia-Herzegovina Defence & Security Report
36 pages Pub date: 28 February 2008 Annual In 2007 Bosnia Herzegovina hit an obstacle in its long journey back towards the normalisation of political institutions after the war of 1992-1995. The obstacle was the failure of the state’s two entities, the Muslim and Croat Federation on the one hand, and the Republika Srpska (RS) on the other, to agree on reforming the... |
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Bosnia-Herzegovina Infrastructure Report
37 pages Pub date: 30 November 1899 Annual Bosnia remains one of the poorest states in emerging Europe, ranking 19th in GDP per capita terms out of a peer group of 28 states, and we expect it to fall further behind by the end of our forecast period in 2012. There is not one single reason behind the slow speed to convergence, but the fractious political scene contin... |
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Bosnia-Herzegovina Telecommunications Report
45 pages Pub date: 17 October 2008 Quarterly As none of Bosnia’s telecommunications operators disclose operating data on a quarterly basis, BMI has estimated growth in the mobile services market for the first quarter of 2008. Based on trends witnessed in the latter part of 2007, we believe that the total number of mobile telephony subscribers may have reached ... |
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Bulgaria Autos Report
45 pages Pub date: 8 October 2008 Quarterly Boom times in the Bulgarian automotive market are set to end in 2009 as a result of the global credit crunch and the country’s economic slowdown, according to BMI ’s latest Bulgaria Automotives Report. Most Bulgarian car importers forecast annual new car sales growth of 17-23% over the next five years. Toyota Balk... |
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Bulgaria Defence & Security Report
39 pages Pub date: 17 October 2008 Quarterly Having no international border disputes or conflicts with other countries, Bulgaria suffers from few direct security threats, either internal or external, and its terrorist risk ratings remain positive. Furthermore, this is unlikely to change in the near future as Bulgaria has no known internal terrorist groups and the risk... |
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Bulgaria Food & Drink Report
67 pages Pub date: 1 October 2008 Quarterly In BMI ’s revised Business Environment Rating (BER) table for Q408, Bulgaria is found in eleventh position out of the 14 markets surveyed in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). While its fundamentals have not changed considerably, the country slid from a more favourable eighth place in the previous period, due to perce... |
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Bulgaria Freight Transport Report
49 pages Pub date: 17 March 2008 Annual Bulgaria was due to take loans and provide guarantees for EUR815mn (US$1.02bn) in 2007, its first year of EU membership, for infrastructure projects financed by the bloc, the government said. Five of the eight projects were part of a EUR7.6bn (US$10bn) investment plan aimed at fixing Bulgaria's dilapidated roads, railways,... |
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Bulgaria Information Technology Report
35 pages Pub date: 11 February 2008 Annual Market Overview Following Bulgaria’s EU accession on January 1 2007, the new member state is set to be transformed by a number of programmes designed to assimilate it into the EU’s broader ‘Information Society’. A wave of new IT projects funded partly by EU and other international financial institutions, are ... |
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Bulgaria Infrastructure Report
77 pages Pub date: 20 November 2008 Quarterly Since our last report on Bulgaria’s infrastructure the country has witnessed the freezing of the ISPA infrastructure funds by the European Union (EU), until further steps towards addressing issues of corruption and graft are taken by the government. This course of action in conjunction with the financial turmoil which has ... |
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Bulgaria Insurance Report
76 pages Pub date: 11 September 2008 Quarterly In Q308, the key change is that we have incorporated much more information about the companies that are operating across the regions of which each country is a part. We have sought to make it much clearer who is operating in each country and under what name(s). Perhaps equally importantly, our profiles make it plain which ... |
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Bulgaria Mining Report
55 pages Pub date: 19 August 2008 Annual Coal production rose by 110% to 28.4mn tonnes in 2007, according to preliminary data from the Bulgarian Chamber of Mining and Geology. The chamber said 17 mining companies had been in production during the year, with the bulk of the output accounted for by the state-run Maritza East mine. The rise in production reflected a... |
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Bulgaria Oil & Gas Report
89 pages Pub date: 30 October 2008 Quarterly The latest Bulgaria Oil & Gas Report from BMI forecasts that the country will account for 2.02% of Central and Eastern European (CEE) regional oil demand by 2012, while making no meaningful contribution to supply. CEE regional oil demand rose to an estimated 5.46mn barrels per day (b/d) in 2007 and should average 5.61mn b/... |
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Bulgaria Petrochemicals Report
27 pages Pub date: 25 February 2008 Annual The Bulgaria Petrochemicals Report has been researched at source, and features latest-available data covering oil and gas, oil refining, olefins (ethylene, propylene), polyolefin’s (polyethylene, polypropylene), polyvinyl chloride and polystyrene. |
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Bulgaria Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Report
80 pages Pub date: 10 November 2008 Quarterly EU accession continues to drive forward the drug market in Bulgaria, while an improved business environment means the country is still a relatively attractive prospect for pharmaceutical companies. While the generics market remains backed by the government reimbursement scheme, innovative firms should see a brighter future... |
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Bulgaria Telecommunications Report
59 pages Pub date: 23 October 2008 Quarterly There is little new to report on Bulgaria’s fixed-line and broadband service markets as the principal network operator and service provider, Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (BTC), has yet to disclose any performance indicators for the first two quarters of the year. Consequently, we have not seen any need to ad... |
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Bulgaria Tourism Report
31 pages Pub date: 24 June 2008 Annual Tourism Overview Official data for the first nine months of 2007 released by the National Statistical Institute show foreign tourist arrivals to Bulgaria standing at 4,338,972 visitors1. For the year as a whole, the head of Bulgaria’s hotel and restaurant association (BHRA), Blagov Ragin, has been quoted in l... |
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Central Asia Autos Report
37 pages Pub date: 27 June 2008 Annual The long-term future of Central Asia’s automotive industry has been secured with growing interest in Kazakhstan’s nascent car industry and General Motors (GM) throwing a life line to Uzbekistan’s national carmaker in 2007. BMI forecasts regional automotive output of around 290,000 units by 2012, a 45% increase over 2007 le... |
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Central Asia Defence & Security Report
54 pages Pub date: 19 September 2008 Quarterly In the distant past, Central Asia was significant because of its location on the Silk Road. It once again occupies a strategic geographic position. Central Asia lies on the border of influence between Russia, China and the United States. It also lies adjacent to Afghanistan and the Middle East. The five countries in the re... |
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Central Asia Petrochemicals Report
29 pages Pub date: 11 March 2008 Annual The Central Asia Petrochemicals Report has been researched at source, and features latest-available data covering oil and gas, oil refining, olefins (ethylene, propylene), polyolefin’s (polyethylene, polypropylene), polyvinyl chloride and polystyrene. |
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Central Asia Telecommunications Report
62 pages Pub date: 10 November 2008 Quarterly In this latest update on the telecoms markets of Central Asia, BMI has updated its mobile growth forecasts for all five Central Asian republics, to take account of new mobile subscriber data for the second quarter of 2008. In this quarter, we have made significant modifications to our forecasts for Kazakhstan and Uz... |
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Croatia Autos Report
37 pages Pub date: 3 March 2008 Annual Croatia’s car market reached a record high in 2007 with 82,664 cars sold, marking a 4.9% increase over 2006. The market remains far from saturated despite the strong growth, with potential sales at 100,000, but only if average annual wages rise above the current US$910, according to BMI’s Croatia Automotives Report. ... |
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Croatia Defence & Security Report
43 pages Pub date: 17 November 2008 Quarterly With Croatia having secured NATO membership for 2009, the government has reoriented its foreign policy focus toward joining the European Union. Indeed, thus far this year, the government has made renewed efforts to meet its self-appointed 2009 deadline for the conclusion of EU membership negotiations. It has opened four ne... |
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Croatia Food & Drink Report
74 pages Pub date: 2 October 2008 Quarterly The Croatian economy has established a record of solid growth and low inflation since the mid-1990s. Real GDP growth has averaged around 4.0%, with inflation in the low single digits and the exchange rate stable. Following the January 2007 accession of Bulgaria and Romania into the European Union (EU), Croatia has emerged ... |
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Croatia Freight Transport
38 pages Pub date: 19 November 2008 Annual In July 2007 the Croatian Motorway Company (HAC) called an international tender to enlarge two tunnels on a key motorway linking the capital with the Adriatic coast, according to news agency reports. The will be approximately HRK600mn (US$110.7mn), with the work due to be completed by May 2009. The proposed tunnel... |
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Croatia Information Technology Report
34 pages Pub date: 15 February 2008 Annual Overview BMI expects the total size of the Croatia IT market to increase from US$920mn in 2007 to around US$1.5bn in 2012. The strong recent growth in PC and notebook sales has mainly been the result of rising private consumption, boosted by growing affordability of computer products and runaway consumer cre... |
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Croatia Infrastructure Report
52 pages Pub date: 29 September 2008 Annual Roads, Rail & Bridges Croatia's Prime Minister Ivo Sanader said in November 2007 that the construction of the Peljesac bridge – the 18th longest bridge in Europe – will not be stopped. Connecting the southern Croatian peninsula with the mainland, construction had got underway the previous month. Sanader's com... |
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Croatia Insurance Report
28 pages Pub date: 29 May 2008 Quarterly As was the case in Q108, the main focus of this report is BMI ’s proprietary Insurance Business Environment Rating (IBER). The rating brings together a number of pieces of relevant quantitative data, together with BMI ’s Country Risk Rating (CRR). The IBER makes it easier for the business environment for the in... |
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Croatia Oil & Gas Report
79 pages Pub date: 30 October 2008 Quarterly The latest Croatia Oil & Gas Report from BMI forecasts that the country will account for 1.78% of Central and Eastern European (CEE) regional oil demand by 2012, while contributing virtually nothing to supply. CEE regional oil demand rose to an estimated 5.46mn barrels per day (b/d) in 2007 and should average 5.61mn b/d in... |
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Croatia Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Report
63 pages Pub date: 24 October 2008 Quarterly In BMI ’s new Q408 Business Environment Rankings for the 17 major Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) markets, Croatia slipped to 16th from a more respectable joint 13th place, being judged as having the second-worst operating environment in the region, above only that of neighbouring and more turbulent Serbia. Key draw... |
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Croatia Telecommunications Report
64 pages Pub date: 23 October 2008 Quarterly Results for the first half of 2008 suggest that our previous prediction that the Croatian mobile market was beginning to slow down was perhaps a little premature, with the estimated 5.4mn subscribers in Q208 topping our previous forecast of 5.3mn subscribers by the end of the year. It now seems most likely that the market ... |
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Croatia Tourism Report
35 pages Pub date: 19 June 2008 Quarterly Tourism Overview Foreign tourist arrivals were up a strong 7.5% year-on-year (y-o-y) in 2007 to 9.3mn arrivals, resulting in one of the best tourist seasons on record in Croatia. Latest data for the first two months of 2008 show foreign arrivals up an impressive 21% y-o-y to some 126,000. This reflects to som... |
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Czech Republic Autos Report
53 pages Pub date: 8 October 2008 Quarterly The Czech Republic’s car market continued to strengthen in H108, but national carmaker Skoda is struggling with declining sales on the domestic market, according to BMI ’s latest Czech Republic Automotives Report. In the first half of 2008, Czech car sales rose 8.7% year-on-year (y-o-y) to 73,455 units. Althou... |
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Czech Republic Chemicals Report
30 pages Pub date: 29 February 2008 Annual The Czech Republic Chemicals Report has been researched at source, and features latest-available data and BMI's independent industry forecasts for basic and speciality chemicals, covering industry value, production, demand, imports, exports and investment, and backed by macroeconomic forecasts and assumptions. |
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Czech Republic Commercial Banking Report
38 pages Pub date: 28 July 2008 Quarterly Over the last year, the crisis in the inter-bank market, and the soaring prices of oil and other raw materials, tended to obscure several other important trends. In most of the developing world (i.e. the vast majority of the countries whose banking industries are surveyed by BMI), lending has been growing quickly. In many ... |
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Czech Republic Defence & Security Report
47 pages Pub date: 28 February 2008 Annual Although the centre-right coalition government which took office at the beginning of 2007 under Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek had a wafer-thin majority, it had settled down to the business of government relatively well, and BMI’s view continued to be that the country’s defence and security fundamentals were strong. In Aug... |
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Czech Republic Food & Drink Report
79 pages Pub date: 10 October 2008 Quarterly In BMI ’s Business Environment Ranking table for Central and East European (CEE)’s food and drink environment, the Czech Republic is found in a much improved second place – which is shared with Slovenia – out of 14 key markets surveyed in the region. The country enjoys stable political and economic environments, supp... |
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Czech Republic Freight Transport Report
42 pages Pub date: 4 November 2008 Quarterly In August Tomas Uvira, Head of the Finance Ministry’s Asset Division, suggested that the long-planned privatization of Czech Airlines (CSA) might take place in 2008, earlier than expected, as the government might be seeking to conclude the sale before market conditions deteriorated further. ‘This may be one of the l... |
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Czech Republic Information Technology Report
43 pages Pub date: 10 November 2008 Quarterly Market Overview BMI projects that the total size of the Czech IT market will increase from just over US$4bn in 2007 to around US$6.2bn in 2012. The market fundamentals of rising incomes, below-EU-average PC penetration levels and growing small business demand will ensure continued opportunities for IT ... |
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Czech Republic Infrastructure Report
72 pages Pub date: 3 November 2008 Quarterly Announcements on investments and deadlines have dominated the news out of the Czech Republic’s transport infrastructure in this quarter. Sprava Zeleznicni Dopravni Cesty (SZDC), the company in charge of the Czech Republic’s railway network, has announced that over US$1.94bn is to be spent on the country’s rail infra... |
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Czech Republic Insurance Report
77 pages Pub date: 11 September 2008 Quarterly BMI has made some key changes to its methodology in Q308, one of which is the inclusion of more information about companies operating across entire geo-political regions. We have sought to make it much clearer who is operating in each country and under what name(s). Perhaps equally importantly, our profiles make it ... |
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Czech Republic Mining Report
53 pages Pub date: 19 August 2008 Annual Speaking at an energy conference in Prague in March 2008 Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said there were no signs that the country’s ecological mining limits, first introduced in the early 1990s to protect villages in the north of the country, would be lifted. The effect of the limits is to prevent the mining of around 1bn ... |
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Czech Republic Oil & Gas Report
84 pages Pub date: 30 October 2008 Quarterly The latest Czech Republic Oil & Gas Report from BMI forecasts that the country will account for 3.78% of Central and Eastern European (CEE) regional oil demand by 2012, while making no material contribution to supply. CEE regional oil demand rose to an estimated 5.46mn barrels per day (b/d) in 2007 and should average 5.61m... |
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Czech Republic Petrochemicals Report
44 pages Pub date: 22 September 2008 Quarterly The Czech Republic Petrochemicals Report has been researched at source, and features latest-available data covering oil and gas, oil refining, olefins (ethylene, propylene), polyolefin’s (polyethylene, polypropylene), polyvinyl chloride and polystyrene. |
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Czech Republic Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Report
69 pages Pub date: 27 October 2008 Quarterly The US$3.64bn Czech drug market should continue to grow healthily over the forecast period, although BMI believes the days of double-digit growth have come to an end. Nevertheless by 2012 we expect the pharmaceutical sales to reach US$5.42bn. Prescription drugs will retain an 80%-plus market share, however, the over... |
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Czech Republic Power Report
54 pages Pub date: 27 November 2008 Quarterly The new Czech Republic Power Report from BMI forecasts that the country will account for 3.67% of Central and East European (CEE) regional power generation by 2012, and will remain a net exporter of electricity to neighbouring states. BMI ’s CEE power generation estimate for 2007 is 2,103 terawatt hours (twh),... |
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Czech Republic Telecommunications Report
60 pages Pub date: 23 October 2008 Quarterly The Czech telecoms market is one of the best developed in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region, with high levels of mobile and fixed-line penetration, as well as rapidly-growing take-up of broadband services. The success of the market is down to the highly-competitive regime that allows alternative players such as... |
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Czech Republic Tourism Report
45 pages Pub date: 17 October 2008 Quarterly Tourism Overview Based on recent data for the number of foreign guests in the hospitality sector, BMI has revised up its estimate for growth in the number of foreign visitors to the Czech Republic in 2007 to a favourable 4% year-on-year (y-o-y). This would represent a pick-up in growth compared with 20... |
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Denmark Telecommunications Report
70 pages Pub date: 25 September 2008 Annual Denmark’s telecoms market is one of the most mature in Western Europe, with penetration rates for fixed-line, broadband and mobile services all well over 100% at the end of 2007. Incumbent operator TDC Mobil continues to dominate all sectors of the market due to its ownership of the country’s most extensive local loop and ... |
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Estonia Autos Report
45 pages Pub date: 27 June 2008 Annual The Estonian automotive market is set for a slowdown in 2008 as consumers become more cautious about making high value purchases amid tougher lending conditions and the market reaches saturation point. In 2007, automotive sales grew 26.0% y-o-y to 38,725 units, with passenger car sales up 25.8% and commercial vehi... |
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Estonia Food & Drink Report
76 pages Pub date: 29 February 2008 Annual Estonia has been among the most attractive investment destinations in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region. The country is ranked fifth in BMI’s revised Business Environment Ranking for the food and drink sectors, given its strong annual GDP growth, rising disposable income and the inflow of foreign direct investmen... |
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Estonia Freight Transport Report
38 pages Pub date: 17 March 2008 Annual Estonia expected to be able to weather Russian attempts to divert some of its transit cargos, including oil products, from the small Baltic state after a diplomatic confrontation, Foreign Minister Urmas Paet said in August. The country’s main port and the railway operator said an impact from trade measures had been seen in... |
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Estonia Infrastructure Report
40 pages Pub date: 5 December 2007 Annual Despite being a small nation in terms of size, Estonia boasts a thriving infrastructure sector. With growth of more than 12% in 2006, the Estonian construction industry has been an important contributor to the country’s overall gross domestic product (GDP). BMI forecasts the industry to log average growth of about 6... |
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Estonia Insurance Report
30 pages Pub date: 5 December 2007 Annual At first glance, Estonia is an attractive proposition for multi-national insurers looking to expand their businesses in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The structure – and apparent risks – associated with the economy are relatively low. Penetration and density levels are low, but are rising fast. Both segments should eas... |
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Estonia Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Report
64 pages Pub date: 5 December 2008 Quarterly In BMI’s revised Business Environment Rankings for the 17 major markets of Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) for Q308, with the region now including Turkey, Estonia is found in a respectable sixth position, having been pushed down by one place by Latvia. However, largely due to its small population of just over 1.34mn, Estoni... |
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Estonia Telecommunications Report
55 pages Pub date: 24 December 2007 Annual Following growth of 16.1% in 2005, Estonia’s mobile market grew by a further 9.6% in 2006, with an additional 137,000 customers being added to the sector. Rates of growth were variable during the year, with the 1% and 1.5% growth rates in Q106 and Q206 rising to 3.2% in Q306 and 3.6% in Q406. Market leader EMT once again o... |
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Finland Telecommunications Report
56 pages Pub date: 23 September 2008 Annual Finland’s telecommunications services market is characterised by a four-way power struggle between four groups of incumbent operators. This is a legacy of the former post and telecommunications regime that had seen the country served by over 100 local telephone companies, a situation that had not changed substantially unti... |
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France Agribusiness Report
43 pages Pub date: 7 November 2008 Quarterly The France Agribusiness Report provides industry strategists, service companies, company analysts and consultants, government departments, trade associations and regulatory bodies with Business Monitor International's independent, 5-year commodity supply and demand forecasts, medium term commodity price forecasts and competitive intelligence on leading agribusiness companies in France. |
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France Autos Report
41 pages Pub date: 11 August 2008 Quarterly The French auto industry has seen some noteworthy developments recently. The long standing debate between France and Germany was finally resolved when the two countries signed a deal to support European Commission (EC) plans to reduce car emissions. The two nations have agreed to support the EC's goal of cutting average ca... |
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France Defence & Security Report
54 pages Pub date: 19 November 2008 Quarterly In mid-September, France asked its European allies in Afghanistan to relax restrictions on troop deployments (known as ‘national caveats’), signalling the Paris government’s desire for more pro-active positioning in the war against Taleban forces. The appeal came only a month after 10 French soldiers were killed in a Taleba... |
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France Food & Drink Report
76 pages Pub date: 10 October 2008 Quarterly In BMI ’s most recent Business Environment Ranking table, France occupies fourth position out of seven markets surveyed in Western Europe, down from second in Q308. Despite boasting very high food and drink consumption per capita, France is not expected to experience a major growth in consumption over the forecast pe... |
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France Freight Transport Report
36 pages Pub date: 17 April 2008 Annual A rail strike in October 2007 highlighted opposition to President Nicholas Sarkozy’s reform programme, aimed among other things at rolling back costly pension privileges. While the struggle over reforms was expected to continue being a key factor in the future of state rail company SNCF, it was also true that the governmen... |
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France Infrastructure Report
58 pages Pub date: 3 November 2008 Quarterly The |