Frost & Sullivan

African governments are working together through the New Partnership for African Development (Nepad) to provide broadband fibre optic based inter-connectivity between all African countries and the rest of the world.

Clean technology is a hot sector that is up for grabs. Investors are keen on evaluating the benefits of investing in various renewables, wind being no exception.

Many service providers supported by the society awareness of the increasing crime rate, identify high-income households as their market target.

Rising disposable incomes in Southern Africa have allowed the middle class to gravitate toward foods that promise health and wellness benefits. This trend has boosted the demand for processed foods and consequently, food and beverage chemicals.

The paints and coatings market is primarily driven by the construction sector. The construction industry slowed down drastically during 2008 and 2009 due to the economic crisis and started to gradually recover in the third quarter of 2009.

The economic downturn that affected Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) as a whole, was the primary factor restraining growth in the agent performance optimization (APO) market.

The awareness of unified communication and collaboration (UCC) tools has been significantly growing, as a C-level executive uses four to five tools on average per day.

Turkey, with its expertise in world class manufacturing and automotive engineering capability, is well poised to become a global producer of EVs and EV batteries.

ABHIs budget brief 2010 states, the Government will deliver public sector spending changes by agreeing to departmental targets of increasing the proportion of central government procurement spend that goes to SMEs by 15 % throughout the supply chain.

Costly healthcare expenditures are now impacting the growth of the economy making it non-sustainable. Frost & Sullivan comments that there must be a change of new direction towards personal wellness to avert this phenomenon.