Then, there are the more convenient chains that have drawn millennial customers away from casual dining options. The growth of fast-casual chains such as Chipotle and Panera have been especially harmful. These chains manage to bring both convenience and lower prices to millennial customers, who are less enthused about spending more money just for the…
GPRO stock closed Friday at $8.40, down 0.83%. The shares have declined 4% year-to-date, and 11.3% over the past three months, trailing the 7% YTD rise in the S&P 500 index. But with GoPro now trading at 52-week lows, these shares look attractive from a risk versus reward perspective. And not only is GPRO seeing…
Energy management is rapidly emerging as a lucrative and busy segment within the GCC’s FM sector, especially the UAE and Qatar. Technavio, in a report titled Building Energy Management Services Market in Middle East 2016-2020 – released last November – stated that the region’s building energy management services (BEMS) industry would record compound annual growth…
Those trends are also going to change how freight shipments are paid for, largely due to technology. According to a recent report by global consulting firm Technavio, the global freight payment services market is expected hot a compound average growth rate (CAGR) of 9.2% over the next five years; an increase that highlights the need…
Water and electrical supply are two of the main concerns for public authorities. The demand of these resources grow as fast as the population in urban areas so they would become scarcer with the pass of the years. A Technavio report states that the use of smart water management technologies such as Big Data, sensoring…
The Middle East’s commercial security market is expanding in tandem with its global counterparts. A white paper by Frost & Sullivan, released in 2016, stated that the region’s commercial security market is likely to be worth $10.2bn by 2020, marking a 24% hike from its $3.8bn value in 2015. This sector, according to the study…
The exploration and production business has been bearing the brunt of slashed investment and reduced budgets in the wake of the oil price crash. Yet, another industry dependent on E&P expenditure has taken even more of a beating: seismic surveying. The seismic market has not only suffered the reduced exploration allocation, it has been piling…
There is a lot going on in rail. Not perhaps in the UK, it is true! Yet Asia, China and India, among others, have just announced rail investment budgets of hundreds billions of dollars a year to put in new hi-speed, hi-tech, electric and Wi-Fi connected railway lines. These are linking up the continent’s cities…
The global mobile wallet market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 35.5 percent from 2017 to 2021, according to research firm Research and Markets.“Mobile wallets are equipped with options like integration with coupons and tickets, which are making them highly popular among users. In addition, users can also save their card and bank…
CIMB Equities Research has downgraded the semiconductor sector from Overweight to Neutral in view of the overall slowdown in industry demand and lack of new catalysts to drive sales growth. “We project 10% EPS growth per annum for sector in 2016-17F; stronger growth for Inari. However, we expect tepid earnings growth by MPI and Unisem…
