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The Global Magazine Publishing industry comprises enterprises that publish magazines or periodicals. These establishments carry out the operations necessary for producing and distributing magazines and other periodicals, such as gathering, writing and editing articles, and selling and preparing advertisements. These enterprises may publish magazines and other periodicals in print or electronic form.

Intense competition will continue to characterize the industry over the next five years. In order to combat this factor and declining demand from health-conscious consumers, chain restaurants will expand their menus and focus on international markets overseas. Combined with a return to consumer spending amid a recovering economy, industry revenue will experience moderate growth over the period.

This report examines the market for fee-based retail banking products and services in the US, UK and Europe. Fee-based income is the revenue that banks earn from sources such as monthly account fees, and fees for late credit card payments or unauthorised overdrafts. Retail and commercial banking makes a significant contribution towards the overall income of some of the world's biggest banks in comparison with investment banking activity, and the contribution of the former looks set to continue in 2012. The other main source of income earned by retail banks is from interest payments on products like personal loans and credit cards. Both supply and demand for these types of products are in decline. The number of credit cards in circulation fell by nearly one million in 2011 y-o-y due to reduced demand for the product on the behalf of consumers, and reduced supply due to the tighter lending criteria. The decline in unsecured lending will reduce the amount of interest income earned, and this is likely to lead to a continued increase in lending interest rates, regardless of the level of the UK base rate.

According to our most recent round of in-country interviews, which were conducted in December 2011, rents in Hong Kong could see a subdued 2012 in all commercial sub-sectors with an overall decline in rents predicted in the short term. For offices in particular, there is a consensus that economic uncertainty is spreading from the eurozone to the Asia Pacific region, leading to caution among investors and an overall slower market. However, moves by the government to ramp up development and create a new Central Business District (CBD2) in East Kowloon may keep office rents from decreasing for any prolonged period.

GlobalData's clinical trial report, "Tourette Syndrome Global Clinical Trials Review, H1, 2012" provides data on the Tourette Syndrome clinical trial scenario. This report provides elemental information and data relating to the clinical trials on Tourette Syndrome. It includes an overview of the trial numbers and their recruitment status as per the site of trial conduction across the globe. The databook offers a preliminary coverage of disease clinical trials by their phase, trial status, prominence of the sponsors and also provides briefing pertaining to the number of trials for the key drugs for treating Tourette Syndrome. This report is built using data and information sourced from proprietary databases, primary and secondary research and in-house analysis by GlobalData's team of industry experts.

Total volume sales of RTD coffee continued to fall in 2011, registering a 1% decline, due to lower popularity amongst the younger generation. The younger generation has grown up with a higher presence of coffee specialists, and prefers to drink speciality coffee from coffee shops, rather than RTD coffee. In particular, RTD canned coffee, which dominates the category, had difficulty in attracting the younger generation. RTD canned coffee is mainly consumed by male smokers, with the aim of...

The transfer of prescription digestive medicines to the self-medication market continued in France between the end of 2010 and 2011. After the switch of Pantoprazole with a dosage of 20mg per tablet at the end of 2009, Trimebutine 100mg was switched at the end of 2010. As a result, new brands were available within this category: Pantozol Control from Nycomed France, Pantoloc from Novartis Group France and Mopralpro from Bayer Sante Familiale, all of them proton pump inhibitors during 2010, but...

Medicated skin care faces significant competition from the beauty and personal care industry as a number of products are regarded more as cosmetics than medicine, because of the problems they are designed to solve. Medicated skin care includes products that are bought by consumers as self-medication, rather than treatments for more severe dermatological problems such as eczema or allergies. Substitutes for products in this category are usually cosmetic products rather than medicines.

Ready meals is expected to continue its steady current value growth in 2011, due mainly to the success of new and more expensive products launched towards the end of the review period, particularly frozen ready meals and frozen pizza. The performance of almost all ready meals categories was boosted by the launch of products based on meat, chicken or vegetables which met consumers' demands.

Total fruit/vegetable juice volume sales in 2011 remained unchanged compared to 2010. The market is mature with high penetration levels. It was therefore difficult to reach new customers and increasingly difficult to persuade existing customers to consume more fruit/vegetable juice products in 2011.