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Carrefour Italy: Consumer Profile is the result of Canadean's extensive online consumer survey Carrefour in Italy, presenting uniquely detailed data on Carrefour's end-consumers. It provides retailer profiles for both Main and Occasional consumers (determined by the share of their goods coming from this retailer) covering over 25 individual consumer groups, and retailer share at product category level.

Brandy in ANZUS to 2016: Market Guide provides in-depth detail on the trends and drivers of the Brandy market in ANZUS. The report includes quantitative information (historic and forecast market values), as well as data, to help companies in the Alcoholic Drinks industry better understand the changes in their environment, seize opportunities and formulate crucial business strategies.

"Global Defense Survey 2012: Cyber Warfare in the Defense Industry, Threats, Opportunities, Demand and Key Markets"is a new report by ICD Research and Strategic Defence Intelligence that analyzes how defense buyers' and suppliers' cyber security budgets, countermeasure strategies and practices, and business planning are set to change in 2012-2013.This report aims to present a critical appraisal of cyber warfare in the current context, to analyze what cyber warfare means, the perception of cyber warfare, how it impacts and how the industry can safeguard itself from this emerging danger. In addition, this report identifies certain specific programs intended to combat cyber-attacks anda few notable companies that have contributed positively to the industry in combating the situation. This report provides the current size of cyber security budgets and how spending by both buyers and suppliers will change in 2012-2013. This report not only grants access to the opinions and strategies of business decision makers and competitors, but also examines their actions surrounding business priorities.The report provides access to information categorized by region, company type and sizes.

BMI projects that the South African consumer electronics market will moderate in 2012, with estimated growth of 6%. The relative buoyancy of the retail sector was evident in 2011, with major retailers enjoying brisk trade in the pre-Christmas period. Retailers reported strong sales of large-screen TV sets, with models in the ZAR9,000 range proving popular. Combined with relatively low inflation and low interest rates, customers are spending on bigger ticket items such as PCs and notebooks, thereby boosting the industry. While we acknowledge various vulnerabilities such as high personal debt levels, we hold to our wider view that the consumer electronics market will continue to grow in 2012.

France benefits from a diversified and dense transportation network. The road network is the dominant approach for land-based movements. In 2010, the French government released a draft plan called 'Avant-Projet au Schema National des Infrastructures de Transports' for transportation infrastructure investments over the next two decades. As part of the plan, the government plans to allocate EURXX billion for the project, of which nearly XX%, will be allocated to high-speed rail, XX% to bus lines, subways and urban trams, XX% to ports and waterways and the remaining XX% to roads and airports.

Total new vehicle sales in China fell 3.4% year-on-year (y-o-y) in Q112, but marginal growth of 1% in March has kept sales volumes on course to meet BMI's forecast of 19.8mn units in 2012. This represents growth of 7% y-o-y, which is below the 8-10% forecast by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, but is still a solid improvement on the 2.6% growth of 2011, taking into account weaker economic growth and localised restrictions on car purchases.

The value of the Colombian construction industry recorded a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.04% during the review period (2007-2011). This growth was fuelled by the significant levels of foreign investment the country received during the review period in areas such as mining and energy, as security improvements, steady economic growth, a stable political situation and business-friendly policies made the country increasingly attractive to foreign investors. The value of the Colombian construction industry is expected to register a CAGR of 7.33% over the forecast period (2012-2016). The Colombian infrastructure construction market accounted for 52.5% of the total value of the Colombian construction industry in 2011, and the value of the market recorded a strong CAGR of 12.71% during the review period. This growth was primarily attributable to significant infrastructure investments made by the Colombian government, coupled with increased private investment in Colombian infrastructure development.

GlobalData's "Oil & Gas Monthly Deals Analysis - May 2012: M&A and Investment Trends" report is an essential source of data and trend analysis on the mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and financings in the oil and gas industry. The report provides detailed information on M&As, equity/debt offerings, private equity, venture financing and partnership transactions registered in the oil and gas industry in May 2012. The report portrays detailed comparative data on the number of deals and their value in the last six months, subdivided by deal types, segments and geographies. Additionally, the report provides information on the top financial advisory firms in the oil and gas industry.

BMI View: While French banks have staged a shaky return to stability, divesting high-risk and capitalintensive assets, they remain highly leveraged and serious questions still linger over their asset quality. With France's economic recovery faltering, domestic demand for household and commercial credit is likely to remain subdued, and we do not expect to see a robust return to profitability in the near term. While we maintain our view that French banks remain stable, for the time being, we remain fairly cautious towards French financials in general. In particular, we see contingent risks rising from within the sector in addition to broader macroeconomic headwinds, and expect that a robust return to profitability remains off the horizon for the time being. Furthermore, we believe that a number of risks remain to be realised, posing further downside potential for French financial equities. Firstly, we expect that profitability will be restrained as banks rush to reinforce their balance sheets in order to comply with Basel III capital regulations. A number of French banks have pushed through significant restructuring plans, downsizing in order to reduce their exposure to eurozone sovereign debt. Furthermore, a number of banks have divested profitable subsidiary branches in Central and Eastern Europe and Africa in order to reduce overall risk exposure and help build up capital buffers. Banks are France Commercial Banking Report Q2 2012 © Business Monitor International Ltd Page 22 likely to continue selling capital intensive units throughout 2012, reducing risk-weighted assets in the process, as well as retaining further capital by cancelling dividends. While restructuring costs and the loss of profitable enterprises will weigh on earnings over the short term, we note that French banks appear to have been moderately successful in building up adequate capital buffers. The three major French banks, Société Générale, BNP Paribas and Crédit Agricole, have all achieved (or are close to achieving) the 9% Tier 1 capital ratio before the mid-2012 target, and we expect these figures to improve throughout the year - barring a major eurozone sovereign debt incident. That said, all three banks remain highly leveraged, with debt/equity ratios at 36.5x (Crédit Agricole, Q311), 24x (BNP Paribas, Q211) and 25x (Société Générale, Q311). French financials are currently trading at record lows in price-to-book terms, with Société Générale, BNP Paribas and Crédit Agricole currently trading at around 0.5 price-to-book ratio. While this ratio could be taken to imply these stocks are 'cheap' by historical standards, it more accurately reflects that investors do not believe that these banks assets are fairly valued - in particular with regard to banks holding sovereign securities issued by peripheral eurozone states (and even some core-eurozone sovereigns such as Italy). French banks are likely to be holding volatile securities such as periphera

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