Date: 2005-09-01
Name(s): Furness, Victoria
Description: Since the late 90s more balanced IT spending strategies for cost containment and efficiency maximization have emerged in financial services. However, each sub-sector differs from another and vendors need a deep understanding of them to be successful.
Date: 2005-04-18
Name(s): Furness, Victoria
Description: The impending need to deliver eGovernment and services to citizens will create a big market for ICT vendors in the US and Europe. But the public sector displays very different characteristics to the private sector and is often closed to new entrants.
Description: The IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook is the leading annual report on the competitiveness of countries and has been published by IMD since 1989. It benchmarks the performance of 67 economies based on more than 330 criteria measuring different facets of competitiveness.
Date: 2007-08-31
Description: The modulation of immune system activity is a required pharmacological intervention for many medical conditions, bearing particular importance in the treatment of autoimmune diseases and allergies and transplant procedures.
Date: 2010-09-08
Name(s): Falkingbridge, Shaun
Description: Since the introduction of ciclosporin in the 1980s short-term graft survival rates have improved significantly, although there remains a need for safer and more effective therapies to improve long-term outcomes.
Date: 2008-03-12
Name(s): Barton, Cheryl L.
Description: Immense advances in genetic code decipherment over the last decade have recently led to personalized medicine becoming an achievable concept. Pharmacogenomics embodies the principles of personalized medicine, combining pharmacology with genetic info.
Date: 2007-03-30
Name(s): Sahoo, Alison
Description: Due to shrinking pipelines and rising financial pressures on pharmaceutical companies, indication expansion is an increasingly attractive strategy to expand patient potential and extend market exclusivity.
Date: 2008-06-04
Name(s): Lewis, Helen
Description: As the consumers have become increasingly health-conscious the development of healthy confectionery has become an imperative NPD strategy to avoid a steady and inevitable decline in value and volume sales.
Date: 2009-05-13
Name(s): Horton, Natasha
Description: The European and North American markets are now highly mature and low growth. To counter both this and the high levels of private label saturation, bakery and cereals manufacturers are attempting to differentiate their brands.
Date: 2007-07-05
Name(s): Hall, Rosemary
Description: The dairy market is set to achieve high growth over the next 4 years- this report sets out which markets and products categories are driving this trend and highlights key opportunities in the most lucrative markets.
Date: 2008-02-25
Name(s): Mescam, Sylvia
Description: This report gives an understanding of the current innovations in the ready meals market and enables manufacturers to identify the emergent trends and growth opportunities in ready meals over the next few years.
Date: 2010-12-13
Description: The global bakery and cereals market was valued at $358bn in 2009. Given the maturity of this industry, manufacturers are looking to new product development and emerging markets as key opportunites to extend their market share.
Date: 2009-06-25
Name(s): Raithatha, Carol
Description: Growth in the food and drinks packaging markets of developing economies is expected to increase in conjunction with their rising GDPs, the changing consumer lifestyles and the increased volumes of packaged products.
Date: 2006-07-17
Name(s): Page, Carolyn
Description: Sensory, health and convenience are the three significant trends that are propelling the food industry into the 21st century. It is where these mega-trends converge that will provide the most valuable new product opportunities for manufacturers.
Date: 2006-06-29
Name(s): Blake, Michelle
Description: As the healthy convenience trend develops, food and drinks companies will increasingly narrowly segment the market to deliver health benefits that allow consumers to take control of their healthy eating through self-dosing.
