Date: 2010-08-16
Description: European gas demand was volatile through 2009, with some countries seeing slight declines in demand. However, the longer term forecast is continued growth for the Eastern European gas market as new gas-fired power plants come on-stream.
Date: 2010-11-23
Description: Increasing economic activity and growing population will continue to drive demand for oil and gas in emerging countries.
Date: 2008-05-22
Name(s): Fraser-Moodie, Isabel
Description: The pharmaceutical industry has faced negative publicity after product withdrawals caused by inadequate safety. Regulatory bodies have responded swiftly; the FDA now requires mandatory surveillance data submission for drugs increased scrutiny.
Date: 2010-11-16
Description: Endoscopy is at an exciting stage of innovation with new advances in endoscopic techniques providing an addressable market opportunity for medical device companies to enter new segments and develop new products.
Date: 2006-11-23
Name(s): Furness, Victoria
Description: The demands placed on organizations' networks have never been greater. Increasing data traffic and the more distributed use of computing make the network ever more business critical, and Internet-based services are becoming increasingly important.
Date: 2008-08-05
Name(s): Eastwood, Gary
Description: Enterprises are increasingly mobilizing their applications onto mobile devices to aid their sale and service field forces who are rarely or never at their desks. Unified comms are an opportunity for enterprises to revolutionize their work processes.
Date: 2004-08-27
Name(s): Kubis-Labiak, Barbara
Description: This report analyzes the eBanking and ePayments sectors. It details the position of online in the banking distribution channel mix, growth in the pre-paid card, electronic bill presentment and payment and ePurse markets and anti-fraud initiatives.
Date: 2008-01-10
Description: The European downstream industry has been experiencing changes in fuel consumption patterns. The demand for middle distillates is growing faster than any other major refined product.
Date: 2009-09-18
Name(s): Tallon, Mark J.
Description: The concept of what is good for the inside must be good for the outside is a mantra captured by the evolving market of beauty through better nutrition. Nutricosmetics are used to describe the application of ingredients traditionally found in foods.
Date: 2009-03-23
Name(s): Dodds, Andrew
Description: Organic food and drink is at the forefront of the wider movement of consumers to buy ethical products. Following strong double digit growth over much of the 2000s, the global economic slowdown of 2009 is creating a challenging market environment.
Date: 2008-03-27
Name(s): Taylor, Paul
Description: In recent years, the biopharmaceutical industry has emerged as one of the most important sectors in the healthcare field. With the loss of patent protection for small molecule drugs biologic products and their marketer's will become more prominent.
Date: 2010-07-09
Name(s): Misra, Gaurav
Description: The funding landscape for small and mid-cap biomedical companies has changed enormously over the past two years, driven by recessive public markets and withdrawal of private equity financing.
Date: 2008-03-19
Name(s): Furness, Victoria
Description: The customer is king- was a phrase first used in retail environments, but has become common parlance in most customer-facing organizations thanks to the importance that businesses now place on their customers.
Date: 2007-05-03
Name(s): Eastwood, Gary
Description: The digital revolution is truly under way as analog products are replaced by digital ones. Entertainment, media and technology are converging and the living room is set to become the battleground for a new generation of digital products and services.
Date: 2010-06-18
Name(s): Seka, Emma
Description: Global mobile data traffic will double each year until 2013. 4G's success will rely on the availability of new spectrum and wide coverage. 4G's benefits may be wasted unless ICT companies find business models for adoption and revenue growth.