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Problems to import finished products and inputs caused severe scarcity in 2014. These product shortages limited sales and affected value growth in direct selling. Most of the players had to reduce their offer because they could not stock all of the items. Indeed, catalogues reduced the number of pages and showed a lower number of products and special promotions.

Taewoong Medical Co.,Ltd. (Taewoong Medical) is a medical device company. The company develops and manufactures stents and other medical devices. Its products include gastrointestinal stent, taewoong niti-S tracheobronchial stent and urology stent. Taewoong Medical offers gastrointestinal stents such as taewoong niti-S esophageal stents, taewoong niti-S biliary stents, taewoong niti-S pyloric and duodenal stents, and taewoong niti-S enteral colonic stents. The company partners with GI Supply, Instrumed Surgical and HOLT Medical. It markets its products through a network of distributors in domestic and international healthcare markets. Taewoong Medical is headquartered in Gimpo, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.

Imaging devices? retail volume sales are expected to decline by 2% in 2014, largely affected by low digital camcorder category response. A secondary factor was the fact that the economic environment was not as prosperous in either the regional or international markets. Despite active product launches and marketing initiatives by manufacturers and retailers, a relatively flat performance was recorded with slow purchasing rates.

Rotterdam relies heavily on the activities of its seaport, Europe's key transportation hub. Unfortunately, even the record performance of Rotterdam port did not provide enough jobs, as over 2007-2012 the city faced decreasing household income and growing unemployment. However, Rotterdam developed an agenda to revive its economic growth, with plans to further expand its seaport, reduce its carbon emissions, and boost the city's attractiveness by renovating neglected neighbourhoods.

While Austrians are generally fond of travelling abroad for holidays, towards the end of the review period increasing numbers of Austrian people displayed a strong preference for travelling within their own country. While travel to destinations abroad is generally planned months in advance and often includes trips in excess of two weeks in duration, domestic destinations are more popular for shorter leisure holidays of up to seven days. Many Austrians have discovered that domestic travel is a more favourable option for short trips as there is no need to prepare for the trip several months in advance as it is possible to decide upon a 3-day or 4-day domestic trip reasonably spontaneously.

The high prices to buy real estate in Colombia, mainly houses and apartments, is affecting the purchasing decisions of Colombians who instead are opting to redesign their homes, and even banks are granting credits for renovations. This situation benefited home and garden specialist retailers which continued with a positive performance, and in 2014, current value sales grew by 8%, marginally higher than the review period CAGR of 7%. The competition intensified with players constantly renewing...

Homeshopping continued to underperform compared with internet retailing and direct selling in Argentina in 2014. For consumers internet retailing is more practical than homeshopping, due to the possibility of comparing the prices and models of many products. In the case of direct selling, sellers can explain the pros and cons of the products.

GlobalData has released its new PharmaPoint Drug Evaluation report, "MGN1703 (Colorectal Cancer) - Forecast and Market Analysis to 2023". Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of mortality among cancer patients in the world and is the third most diagnosed cancer globally, and thus represents a huge burden on healthcare systems. This report focuses on the current treatment landscape, unmet needs, current pipeline, and commercial opportunities in the colorectal cancer market, with coverage of multiple settings of the disease including neoadjuvant/adjuvant, first-, second-, third-line KRAS wild-type and mutation-positive, and fourth-line metastatic. In terms of targeted treatments, the metastatic CRC treatment landscape is mature, including the branded treatments Avastin (bevacizumab), Erbitux (cetuximab), and Vectibix (panitumumab), treatments that have extended the survival of metastatic patients compared to chemotherapy-only regimens. However, high unmet needs remain for the extension of survival of metastatic patients, and particularly those with KRAS mutation-positive disease, for whom the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitors Erbitux and Vectibix are not recommended.

The Future of the Hot Drinks Market in South Africa to 2018 is the result of Canadean's extensive market research. The report presents detailed analysis on the Hot Drinks consumption trends in South Africa, historic and forecast Hot Drinks 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 Hot Drinks sales overall and to know which categories and segments are showing growth in the coming years.

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

Cigarettes faced the gloomiest year compared to the review period, with cigarettes volume sales dropping by 22% in 2013. Due to the radical change in retail triggered by the comprehensive legislations compounded with the ever-increasing taxes on cigarettes, the category was only able to reach an overall size of 9.7 billion sticks in 2013, a considerable drop from the 12.4 billion sticks sold in 2012.

Latvia's freight industry is inconveniently poised to feel the effects of the deterioration in trade relations between the EU and the Russian Federation. While on aggregate sanctions put in place by the West have not significantly affected the EU's growth outlook, they have hit Latvia hard. Russia is one of Latvia's largest trading partners, accounting for 10% of total exports, and both the visible goods and services trade is suffering as a direct result.

Egypt is re-establishing its position as the standout growth market for consumer companies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and we believe this is a good time for food and drink companies to actively pursue expansion in Egypt, be it organically or via acquisitions. The pace of real GDP growth will pick up markedly over the coming years, helped by greater political stability and low base effects.

Cigars remained a tiny niche at the end of the review period in Serbia, partly due to a lack of tradition for these products. These products have a very limited consumer base and there is little interest in cigar smoking among most consumers. Interest in cigars is also limited by the high price of these products and low average income levels in Serbia. However, widening distribution supported sales growth towards the end of the review period, with the consumer base for cigars slowly expanding.

Over the review period, the competition within health and beauty retailers, in particular in chemists and parapharmacies intensified, and also faced additional pressures like the increasing presence of generic medicines, and the changes to the mandatory health plan that obliges to improve access to more medicines, as well as legislation aimed to regulate selling prices, have contributed to narrowing margins of chemists, more than of parapharmacies, as the former have an offer more concentrated on medicines. However, most players have adopted a strategy of widening the offer with more beauty and personal care products, stationery, and other services, and to create stronger networks by making alliances between small players that allow them to obtain more advantageous prices, as they improve their negotiating power.

Although the regulator has objected to handset subsidies, and fined operators for offering them, the access to new handsets has been driving the fast upgrade from 3G services to 4G. South Korea is one of Asia's outperformers, with consumers happy to spend on mobile services and often keen to upgrade to the latest services. This is also reflected in the wirelin e market where high-speed broadband continues to show good growth.

The continued use of monetary and fiscal stimulus measures by the Chinese government at the expense of structural reforms suggests that near-term growth in China's infrastructure and construction sectors could be stronger than previously expected. That said, we still expect China's construction and infrastructure sectors to experience a structural slowdown over the long-term. The key reason for this outlook is our belief that the basis for the increase in fixed asset investment is through the rise in liquidity in China's financial system, an unsustainable investment model due to the diminishing marginal return on expenditure.

Fish food and small mammal/reptile food are driving the performance of other pet food in Switzerland. The, albeit slowly, growing fish and small mammal/reptile populations are likely to offset losses in the bird population in 2014.

Exploit Technologies Pte Ltd (Exploit Technologies) is a technology transfer company. It provides technologies for license in various sectors industries such as Electronics, energy, Environment, food, life sciences, medical devices, diagnostics, pharmaceuticals and others. The company offers services related to licensing, startups and collaborate. Its key services include investment services, spinoff services others. Exploit Technologies also offers IP management and intellectual property services. The company has partnership with research institutes, namely, Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, and Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences among othersand government agencies such as Singapore workforce development agency, Media Development Authority Singapore and others. It is a subsidiary of Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A STAR). Exploit Technologies is headquartered in Singapore.

Global Markets Direct's, 'Catalyst Biosciences, Inc. - Product Pipeline Review - 2014', provides an overview of the Catalyst Biosciences, Inc.'s pharmaceutical research and development focus.

Jewelry includes ornaments that are worn for personal adornment. Jewelries are made of gold, diamond, and other precious metals such as platinum, silver, and gems. Jewelries play an important role in the lifestyle of Indian people and they associate jewelries with a number of reasons such as status, long-term investment, and hedge against inflation.

Natural Fiber Composites Market by Applications (Automotive, Building and Construction, Electrical and Electronics & Others) by Manufacturing Processes (Compression Molding, Injection Molding & Others) and by Region (North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of the World) - Global Trends & Forecasts to 2019

There is no tradition of smoking cigars or cigarillos in Belarus. Cigars and cigarillos remain expensive and unaffordable for the majority of Belarusian consumers, being perceived as luxury products. Awareness of the products is still relatively low among the majority of Belarusians. Some consumers choose cigars and cigarillos only for the purpose of trying something new, but not as a regular part of daily tobacco consumption. Trade representatives state that these products are often chosen by tourists who visit Minsk, the capital of Belarus. Cigars excluding cigarillos are also in growing demand in casinos in Minsk, which increased in number over the review period after they were closed in Moscow.

We expect the slowdown in Taiwan's main export markets to continue to present headwinds to growth during 2015, as the country's over-reliance on tech-related exports leaves Taiwan vulnerable to both changes in the global electronic business cycle and demand changes in developed markets. With credit growth decelerating and private consumption remaining relatively subdued, we are forecasting a below consensus 3.1% real GDP growth for 2014 and have downgraded our real GDP forecast for 2015 to 3.5% from 4.1%. Therefore, as last year, we remain fairly pessimistic about the performance of Taiwan's food and drink market in the short to medium term, albeit that select individual (premium) sectors may still outperform the overall market.

Although Finland is a mature market with penetration rate around 181%, BMI believes that the growth has not yet reac hed its ceiling and the mobile market will expand until 2016. ARPU's, on the other hand will decline as the competition intensifies a trend which BMI believes will continue until the end of the forecast period. To keep a competitive edge, operators will have to focus on investing into high-bandwidth infrastructure such as fibre and LTE, but this is a capital-intensive undertaking despite the improved margins LTE at 800MHz would provide. Newcomer Ukko Mobile sees an opportunity in the LTE 450MHz market, but it will need to rely on innovative service bouquets if it is to stan d out from the crowd. Regulator s ' proposals to cut fixed line leasing costs, are likely to bode well for fixed-line operator revenues.