The Emerging Europe region will continue to develop as a thriving component manufacturing hub for the whole European region. The majority of vehicle production investment is heading to Russia as the market recovery gathers momentum and the government looks to encourage high levels of localisation. In our regular round-up of production investments, we track the latest projects from the production side of the industry and analyse regional trends that we see developing. In doing so, we hope to build a picture of any potential hubs that may be developing, as well as company strategy in terms of production bases and export programmes.

Highly centralised healthcare sector, controlled by the government. Smallest medical device market in the Americas region. • Other medical devices, consumables and diagnostic imaging have the highest market shares. Market heavily reliant on medical device imports, particularly from Europe, China and Japan. Lack of advanced medical device manufacturing capacity. Moderate medical device market growth over the forecast period. One of the smallest per capita medical device expenditures in the region.

The Contract Catering Market in the US is undergoing a drastic change wherein companies and institutions alike are looking for initiatives that enable them to focus their energy and resources on their core capabilities and goals. In recent years, the cost-cutting culture has prompted many organizations to outsource most of their non-core tasks, including food service, to service providers.

A companion animal or a pet is an animal that is primarily bred to live as a companion to a person as well as to entertain and protect them rather than to serve as a working animal, laboratory animal, or livestock. Two of the most popular companion animals are dogs and cats. Companion animals play an important part in the lives of many people. They provide companionship and a sense of responsibility, demand care and attention, and respond with affection. Although somewhat controversial, a number of studies have shown that owning companion animals is associated with positive health benefits. Pets, especially dogs and cats, are always considered as companion animals and there has been an improvement in the way people treat their pets over the past decade. Around 70% of the pet owners said they would risk their lives for them. Apart from the growing interest to have a pet in the family, most families now consider pets as another family member.

Shanghai, China, October 22, 2018] At Huawei CONNECT 2018, Huawei and Siemens jointly launched the manufacturing cloud desktop solution, which runs the Siemens NX software on the Huawei FusionAccess Desktop Cloud platform. The solution delivers high levels of security, stability, flexibility, as well as compelling economics and is set to fuel smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0 with new-found efficiency. Unlike traditional solutions, the joint solution leverages the state-of-the-art Siemens NX software, presented by Siemens PLM Software, combined with the Huawei FusionAccess Desktop Cloud solution, enabling desktop access with excellent flexibility and cost-benefits, and delivering better security for applications and data.

A large tourism sector fuels consumption in a number of food and drink sectors, including soft and alcoholic drinks. Across the region, any fluctuations in tourism levels have a noticeable impact on the premium alcoholic drinks sector, where the majority of consumption can be attributed to affluent tourists. In the food sector, segments that are particularly reliant on the tourist dollar include convenience and brand-name products from the US.

A large tourism sector fuels consumption in a number of food and drink sectors, including soft and alcoholic drinks. Across the

region, any fluctuations in tourism levels have a noticeable impact on the premium alcoholic drinks sector, where the majority of

consumption can be attributed to affluent tourists. In the food sector, segments that are particularly reliant on the tourist dollar

include convenience and brand-name products from the US.

Late 2017, we removed the Limbe refinery capacity expansion previously included in our forecast. There are no recent updates on refining expansion works and it remains unclear whether any expansion works have started at all. Nothing indicates an expansion will go through. In addition, given the difficult financial position of SONARA, we believe an expansion is unlikely to go through for the time being.

As present, Cambodia has no petroleum law. While new legislation is currently being drafted, the sector is currently governed by the 1991 Petroleum Regulations. In addition to the regulations, the draft model PSC is also used and was adopted by the General Department of Petroleum to provide comprehensive guidelines for the petroleum sector. The government has suggested it is working on a new comprehensive 'Petroleum Law', increasing uncertainty for investors, which has in turn stalled exploration and development efforts. The draft petroleum law, which was due for release by the end of 2015, has been postponed until several technical issues are clarified. The law will regulate the extraction of oil from onshore and offshore fields. In particular, the government has explained that it needs more time to study how revenue from the industry can be managed, alongside the proposed establishment of a national petroleum company.

The Brazilian pharmaceutical market is the largest in Latin America, a position we expect it to maintain and solidify over our forecast period and thus drive foreign investment in the market - despite drug pricing challenges. We calculate that pharmaceutical sales in Brazil reached a value of BRL78.7bn (USD24.7bn) in 2017, accounting for 1.2% of GDP and 12.6% of health expenditure. Patented drug sales represented the largest segment of the market at 47.4% of overall sales, with a value of BRL37.3bn (USD10.7bn). Medicine spending per capita was calculated to be just USD118 in 2017.