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Summary "Malaysia Media Market to 2015: Media Services Adoption by Technology" report provides a top-level overview and detailed insights into the operating environment for mobile operators. It is an essential tool for companies active across the telecom value chain in Malaysia and for new companies that may be considering entering the market.

The incontinence category still faces obstacles as a result of the rigid cultural views of the locals in Macedonia, which regard incontinence with negativity and ridicule, without really trying to understand its roots and nature. Nonetheless this conservative view is giving way to the more liberal view that incontinence is part of the lifecycle, and that it is perfectly normal among certain age groups and categories of consumers.

We have been below consensus on Turkey's medium-term real GDP growth outlook since mid-2013, based on our view that the country's growth model, driven by a huge reliance on foreign borrowing to fund a rapid expansion of domestic credit, would no longer be viable in light of tightening global liquidity conditions. While signs of easing domestic demand were beginning to emerge by end-2013, destabilising political developments have exacerbated a downturn in investor sentiment, consumer and business confidence. Following an estimated 3.6% growth in 2013, we now forecast real GDP to expand by 1.5% and 3.0% in 2014 and 2015 respectively, well below consensus estimates of 2.3% and 4.0%.

Serbia's retail market continues to struggle in the short term and we forecast minimal growth of 0.14% total household spending in 2014. The country comes second to last out of 10 in BMI's Central and Eastern Europe Retail Risk/Reward Ratings, Highlighting its weak performance relative to its peers.

Summary "Argentina Media Market to 2015: Media Services Adoption by Operator" report provides a top-level overview and detailed insights into the operating environment for mobile operators. It is an essential tool for companies active across the telecom value chain in Argentina and for new companies that may be considering entering the market.

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

Surface care recorded a positive performance in 2013 as a result of improving purchasing powers and growing expenditure on products that are perceived as non-essential. In Lithuania, a number of surface care categories were still underdeveloped as at the end of the review period, with products that are used only occasionally, but more frequently when consumer confidence improves. Recovering consumer confidence also allowed more people to buy higher-quality, and as a result, more-expensive...

Confectionery Market in Laos: Databook to 2017" is the result of Canadean's extensive market research covering the Confectionery market in Laos.

The major developments this quarter were local drugmaker Saidal's two licensing manufacturing agreements with foreign drugmakers, and the Algerian College of Cardiologists' call for new hypertension medicines, which illustrates growing interest in the market and an increase in the opportunities on offer. Despite the country's large pharmaceutical market, of which patented medicines comprise 58% of the market value, we believe multinational interest in fixed capital investment will remain subdued due to the government's pro-generic policies and weak intellectual property law.

This report is the result of Timetric's extensive market research covering the construction materials market in Slovakia. It contains detailed data on market dynamics along with latest industry happenings, industry players and happening projects in Slovakia. "Slovakia Construction Materials: Market Update" provides a top-level overview and detailed insight into the operating environment of the construction materials market in Slovakia. It is an essential tool for companies active across the Slovakia construction value chain and for new players considering to enter the market.

Summary "Chile Fixed Communications Market to 2015: Service Adoption" report provides a top-level overview and detailed insights into the operating environment for mobile operators. It is an essential tool for companies active across the telecom value chain in Chile and for new companies that may be considering entering the market.

While the legislation in Austria relating to smoking is relatively lenient compared to other EU countries, the growing health awareness among Austrians is causing an increasing number of smokers to want to quit smoking. Although the total number of smokers has registered a steady increase of 1% year-on-year over the review period, the stricter legislation on smoking in public places, as well as the growing pressure from the media, is causing many consumers to try to stop smoking.

Summary "Canada Mobile Operator KPI Market to 2015: Minutes of Usage (MOU) by Operator" report provides a top-level overview and detailed insights into the operating environment for mobile operators. It is an essential tool for companies active across the telecom value chain in Canada and for new companies that may be considering entering the market.

In 2013 the culture of paying with cards was characterised by quite healthy developments. In spite of cash withdrawals dominating in financial cards use, more and more Ukrainians were considering the opportunity to pay for products and services with their debit cards. The developments were the most active in cities where consumer incomes were the highest and where the point-of-sale terminals infrastructure had the biggest presence. Rapid growth in internet retailing was coming, in line with...

Summary "Chile Media Market to 2015: Media Services Adoption by Operator" report provides a top-level overview and detailed insights into the operating environment for mobile operators. It is an essential tool for companies active across the telecom value chain in Chile and for new companies that may be considering entering the market.

Despite deepening economic recession in Slovenia in 2013 and a consequential fall in consumer purchasing power, sanitary protection is a necessity which cannot be avoided by female consumers. However, the growth trend of sanitary protection volume consumption over the review period slowed in 2013, as consumers started to see the comfort of using slightly more than really necessary as unnecessary expenditure.

The Slovenian life insurance segment declined at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of -1.8% during the review period (2008-2012). This was primarily due to the banking crisis which, by the end of 2012, resulted in recession for Slovenia. However, increased investment in fixed capital creation and a recovery in private consumption managed to bring Slovenia out of recession by the end of 2013. Over the forecast period (2012-2017), the life insurance segment is projected to post a CAGR of 4.2% as the demand for traditional life insurance products, such as term life and annuities, is expected to grow. In addition, the new pension law and the amendments made to the prevalent insurance law in 2013 are further expected to support the segment's growth.

Summary "UK Mobile Handset Market to 2015: Mobile Handset Sales by Technology and by Generation" report provides a top-level overview and detailed insights into the operating environment for mobile operators. It is an essential tool for companies active across the telecom value chain in the UK and for new companies that may be considering entering the market.

Summary "Romania Mobile Data Market to 2015: Average Revenue Per Subscription (ARPS) by Mobile Data" report provides a top-level overview and detailed insights into the operating environment for mobile operators. It is an essential tool for companies active across the telecom value chain in Romania and for new companies that may be considering entering the market.

The increasingly well-informed Portuguese population now prefers to change their eating and drinking habits when faced with digestive problems rather than adopting various preventive remedies in order to alleviate and indeed avoid digestion-related discomfort. The prevailing distrust in standard products and the generally gloomy economic environment in Portugal continued to have a negative impact on digestive remedies overall in 2013. However, recently introduced OTC categories in Portugal,...

The further growth in demand for wipes in Costa Rica was driven by price-based competition along with other differentiating factors related to the quality of the products, especially aromas and wipes' resistance and texture. Both portable and at home packs continued performing well in sales, although given the better value offered by at home products it grew faster, benefiting from the wider range of options available. Both personal and cleaning wipes made use of additional levels of...

Summary "Indonesia Mobile Data Market to 2015: Mobile Subscriptions by Operators" report provides a top-level overview and detailed insights into the operating environment for mobile operators. It is an essential tool for companies active across the telecom value chain in Indonesia and for new companies that may be considering entering the market.

Summary "Italy Multiplay Services Market to 2015: Multiplay and Blended Service Adoption" report provides a top-level overview and detailed insights into the operating environment for mobile operators. It is an essential tool for companies active across the telecom value chain in Italy and for new companies that may be considering entering the market.

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

Retail tissue and hygiene saw small current value growth in 2013, marginally stronger compared with the previous year as well as the review period CAGR. Part of the growth in 2013 was, however, due to the increased VAT in Finland in January 2013 (up from 23% to 24%), which means that the development was far from inspiring. The market saw sluggish sales mainly as it faced challenges when the Finnish economy took a downturn and unemployment rates increased, thus limiting customer purchasing power...