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Established
in London in 1984, Business Monitor International (BMI) is
recognised as a leading source of specialist news analysis, data
and forecasts on financial, economic and political developments
across emerging markets worldwide.BMI today serves the business
information needs of senior executives at leading multinational
companies, banks, research centres and governments in over 125 countries,
in recognition of which the company was honoured with the 1997 Queen's
Award For Export Achievement.
The company's
expanding range of products and services are available online, on
CD-ROM and in print at Business Monitor International's website
(www.businessmonitor.com), where you are invited to register for
trials to our subscription services, and to benefit from special
offers on our books, directories and CD-ROM products.
Emerging
Markets Online
Emerging Markets Online is Business Monitor International's daily
internet-based service, offering original, same-day comment and
interpretation of key financial and economic developments across
emerging markets.
Daily financial
reports are backed by BMI's wider-ranging country analyses and forecasts
covering macroeconomic performance and political risk. The service
is further enhanced by a wealth of country data and forecasts drawn
from BMI's proprietary databases. The result: a uniquely coherent,
data-rich online service, underwritten by a 20-year pedigree of
specialist analysis and forecasts on emerging markets worldwide.
Emerging Markets Online is a highly functional and cost-effective
solution to the information needs of both single and multiple users
in financial institutions and corporates located in Europe, North
America and across emerging markets worldwide.
Emerging Markets Online is fully customised to match the specific
country, regional or global requirements of financial institutions
and corporates active in emerging markets. Emerging Markets Online
services include:
Global Service
- all countries and regions
Regional Services - Asia, Latin America, Middle East &
Africa, Emerging Europe
Country Services - one or any combination of more than 100
emerging markets listed below
Annual subscription
rates for single and multiple-users are available on request. Access
is available on a trial basis to qualified companies.
REGION / COUNTRY COVERAGE
LATIN AMERICA
Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, East Caribbean,
Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador,
El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduas, Jamaica, Mexico,
Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad
& Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela.
ASIA
Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia,
Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore,
South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam.
EUROPE
Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania,
Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikstan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
MIDDLE EAST
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine,
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
AFRICA
Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea,
Ivory Coast, Kenya, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria,
Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Emerging
Markets Monitor
A 20-page weekly brief on bonds, equities and forex in worldwide
emerging markets, relied upon by financial professionals and investment
managers.
Emerging Markets
Monitor (EMM) has become a leading source of weekly intelligence
on bonds, equity and foreign exchange in emerging markets, covering
Asia Pacific, Latin America, Central & Eastern Europe, Russia
and FSU, the Middle East and Africa. Each week, EMM, through its
access to the world's top analysts and traders, taps market sentiment,
and provides clear recommendations for equities, fixed income and
foreign exchange - backed by explicit asset and macroeconomic forecasts
produced by its specialist treasury team.
- Need-to-know
(but hard-to-find) latest news, analysis and strategy on more
than 64 global emerging markets
- Exclusive
comment and analysis on latest market developments from more than
50 leading analysts, economists and investment managers representing:
ABN Amro, Bank of America, Bankers Trust, Bear Stearns, Chase
Securities, Citicorp, Commerzbank, Credit Suisse First Boston,
Daiwa, Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, HSBC, ING Barings,
JP Morgan, Jardine Fleming, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Moody's,
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Nomura International, Schroders, SG,
Standard Chartered, Standard & Poor's, Templeton Emerging
Markets, UBS Warburg
- Country snapshots
providing explicit short and medium-term currency forecasts, backed
by two-year macroeconomic forecasts
- Weekly trade
ideas, news of people moves and conferences in the industry, and
a record of EM equity and debt financing transactions.
- Weekly data
on bonds, equities, capital and foreign exchange for all key emerging
markets, plus close monitoring of the week's new economic indicators
Weekly
Financial Alerts
Weekly Financial Alerts on Asia, Latin America and the Middle
East and Africa are relied upon by senior business executives
and financial market professionals to assess risks and track
market sentiment.
Asia, Latin
America and Middle East and Africa Weekly Financial Alerts provide
senior corporate executives and market professionals trading
or investing in these regions with up-to-the-minute news, analysis
and forecasts on political risk, macroeconomic performance and
market sentiment. Features include:
- Exclusive
and attributed market insights given direct to the Alerts by financial
professionals, interpreting changes in political risk, new economic
indicators, and moves in currencies, interest rates, equities
and bonds
- Explicit
short and medium-term currency forecasts, backed by systematic
analysis of market fundamentals, produced by the Alerts' specially
commissioned team of treasury consultants
- Time-sensitive
data, graphs and charts to underpin the analysis behind headline
stories: macroeconomic data and forecast tables, currency forecast
graphs and a data summary section
Regional Monthly Monitors
Seventeen regional monthly Monitor titles, covering Asia,
Latin America, Emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa, provide
political risk assessment and macroeconomic analysis and forecasts
for corporates, banks, government departments, business libraries
and research centres involved in emerging markets worldwide.
The Monitors
provide essential coverage each month of major political, economic
and financial developments in emerging markets worldwide. Each
Monitor contains systematic, country-by-country analyses of
recent and likely changes in political risk, economic performance
and prospects, industrial activity, finance and the business
environment. Country analyses in each report are underpinned
every month by latest-available tabulated data covering all
major macroeconomic indicators, plus authoritative 12- and 24-month
forecasts drawn from BMI's databases.
COUNTRY-BY-COUNTRY
COVERAGE
Each Monitor features systematic country-by-country coverage,
comprising essential news, analysis and forecasts, backed by
a wealth of charts, graphs and tables, covering key political,
economic and financial developments.
POLITICAL
RISK REVIEW
Political risk: Government stability, elections, cabinet
changes, key policymakers, outlook for policy continuity, political
opposition and popular dissent, the military, unions and international
relations.
Macroeconomic risk: Economic performance and outlook
for GDP growth, industrial activity, inflation, forex and interest
rates, trade, investment, debt
Business environment risk: Government policy on inward
investment and trade, industry, privatisation and economic reform,
FTZs, tax, infrastructure, project finance, labour market, IP,
environment.
MACROECONOMIC
ANALYSES & FORECASTS
Business Monitor International's country-by-country views on
economic performance and outlook are supported by our database
of historic and latest-available headline economic indicators,
plus 12-and 24-month forecasts. Every issue of the Monitors
carries tables, charts and graphs for each country, covering:
Real GDP growth (% pa), Manufacturing output (% pa), Inflation
(end period, % y/y), Short-term interest rates (%), Exchange
rate/US$ (end period), Exports (US$bn), Oil output (mn b/d),
Oil/gas exports (US$bn), Imports (US$bn), Trade balance (US$bn),
Current account (US$bn), Current account as % of GDP, Foreign
reserves (US$bn), Stock market performance, Import cover (mths),
External debt (USbn), External debt as % of exports.
FINANCE
& MARKET REPORT
Analysis of latest debt, aid and investment developments; country
reports on local stock markets and the investment climate covering
price movements, new issues, foreign funds, privatisation and
new regulations.
BUSINESS
ENVIRONMENT UPDATE
Recent and likely changes in corporate legislation and government
policy toward foreign trade, investment, labour, prices, infrastructure,
environment and capital markets; outlook for corporate profitability,
trade liberalisation, structural economic reform and privatisation.
Quarterly Country Forecast Reports
Business Monitor International's range of 21 Quarterly Country
Forecast Reports provide in-depth data, analysis and forecasts
over a 3-year horizon for the world's top emerging markets.
- The Forecast
Reports are used by corporate strategists, treasurers, economists
and researchers, helping to identify opportunities, manage risks
and plan strategy.
- Each Forecast
Report is written by acknowledged country experts backed by BMI's
emerging markets economics team and an extensive network of in-country,
international, private and public sector sources.
- The Reports
provide an in-depth, authoritative and independent appraisal of
political risk, macroeconomic performance and outlook, leading
industry sectors, capital markets and the business environment
through a 3-year period.
POLITICAL
OUTLOOK
Political forecast: BMI's assessment of political risk
over the next three years, with analysis of the key factors
that will impact on the forecast scenario.
Legislative system: Balance of power between executive,
congress, parliament, state/provinces. Incumbent administration,
key personalities and policy-makers.
Political stability: Recent elections and future timetable,
prospects for constitutional reform; effectiveness of opposition
parties, likely impact of government changes on business; role
of public and private sector unions, political role of the military;
long-term threats to stability; risks of civil rest or insurgency.
International trade and foreign relations: International trade
and geopolitical factors driving foreign policy; relations with
US, Europe and Japan; trade blocs and multilateral organisations.
DOMESTIC
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Economic forecast & recent performance: BMI's 3-year
forecast for the domestic economy, broken down in
detail by principal macroeconomic indicators:- recent and future
sectoral contribution to GDP; employment/unemployment trends,
indicative/minimum wage rates; main determinants of CPI, forecasts
for annual average and end-year inflation; analysis of exchange
rate regime (nominal/real, official/black), recent interest
rate trends, indicative commercial bank lending and deposit
rates; review of official and independent forecasts.
Background to economy and policy-making environment:
market size, economic structure, macroeconomic trends from 1970s
to the present day covering growth performance, inflation, external accounts,
foreign indebtedness and assets.
Today's economic policy environment: The government's
current macroeconomic strategy and likely implementation problems;
fiscal and monetary policies liable to change over forecast
period.
Structural economic reforms: Government policy toward
import/export sector, public sector (privatisation and market
deregulation), capital markets, foreign direct investment, domestic
investment (infrastructure, social spending, education, R&D,
etc.) and foreign portfolio investment.
Key problem areas: Control of inflation and public spending,
managing growth, foreign reserves position, infrastructure bottlenecks,
closed areas of economy, regional disparities.
EXTERNAL
SECTOR OUTLOOK
External sector forecast: BMI's 3-year forecast for the
external sector, broken down by imports, exports, services,
current account, reserves, external debt and finances.
Recent trends in merchandise trade: Key exports/imports
by commodity and partner, trends in invisibles account (shipping,
tourism, insurance), analysis of current account.
Status of foreign reserves, import cover, foreign investment
and debt: Principal sources of foreign financing; impact
of current account financing on economic policy; structure of
external debt and major creditors, external debt projections
over forecast period (absolute, % of GDP, % of exports) and
likelihood of rescheduling/debt problems over forecast period;
foreign assets position.
GLOBAL
GROWTH OUTLOOK
BMI's global economic forecast and impact on the economy: BMI's
3-year forecast for the global economy: growth, inflation, trade,
interest rates, exchange rates, commodity prices; the impact
of US, Japan and the euro-zone.
KEY
ECONOMIC SECTORS
Performance, policy and 3-year forecast for key sectors :
- Oil, energy
and mining o Utilities
- Manufacturing
and subsectors o Agriculture
- Construction
& property o Tourism
- Banking,
insurance and finance o Telecoms
CAPITAL
MARKETS
Debt and equity as a source of corporate expansion and economic
development: Market structure and the regulatory environment;
recent stock market performance, new issues and outlook over
forecast period; roles played by local and international credit
rating agencies, foreign direct and portfolio investment and
global capital markets.
BUSINESS
ENVIRONMENT
Impact of recent and likely changes in the business environment
on corporate profitability: Regulatory regime and government
policy toward foreign trade, foreign investment and technology
transfer, capital markets, industry, infrastructure development,
joint ventures, privatisation, debt, exchange and price controls,
labour and taxation, the environment.
KEY
CONTACT INFORMATION
Comprehensive government and private sector listings: Full address
and contact details, including website addresses.
FOREIGN COMPANIES DATABASE
The Foreign Companies in Emerging Markets series, now in
its 6th edition, comprises 25 Yearbooks offering fully researched
commercial intelligence on over 150,000 top executives at more
than 50,000 leading foreign subsidiary, joint venture and associate
companies active in global emerging markets.
Published
annually by the Commercial Intelligence Service, corporate research
division of Business Monitor International, the Foreign Companies
Yearbooks offer fully researched corporate data on thousands
of American, Japanese, German, British, French, Dutch, Swiss,
Australian and many other foreign subsidiary, joint venture
and associate companies doing business in emerging markets.
Companies are fully researched at source by questionnaire, fax,
email and telephone.
FULL
ADDRESS AND CONTACT DETAILS
Entries include senior personnel and titles, full company name,
full postal address, telephone and fax numbers, plus e-mail
and website addresses.
SENIOR
EXECUTIVE PERSONNEL AND TITLES
A range of senior executives and their titles, including Chairman,
CEO, Finance Director/Treasurer, Marketing/Sales Director and
Managing Director.
COMPREHENSIVE
INDICES
All entries are indexed by company name, nationality, 32 major
industry classifications (see opposite) and by parent head office.
CORPORATE
PROFILES
Corporates profiles by employee size, registration date, description
of business activity and, where available, US$ sales volume.
SUBSIDIARIES
LINKED TO PARENT HEAD OFFICE
Leading foreign subsidiaries and joint ventures linked to parent
head office in the US, Japan, Germany, Britain, France and other
leading industrial countries, for which full address, contact
personnel and details are provided.
INDUSTRY
SECTORS DATABASE
Business Monitor International each year publishes seven
multinational sector Directories, covering Chemicals & Petrochemicals,
Construction & Engineering, Energy & Mining, Financial
Services, Pharmaceuticals, Telecoms and Transport. Each Directory
comprises fully researched corporate data on thousands of senior
executives at multinational subsidiaries, joint ventures and
associate companies in these five industries, located in 23
major emerging markets worldwide.
The Directories
enable industry professionals to target new markets for products
and services; locate and compare alternative manufacturers and
suppliers of industry equipment and services; approach key personnel
to identify profitable new customers and sales leads; create
new management, recruitment and customer contacts; research
industry peers and competitors, and identify joint venture and
acquisition targets.
FULL
COMPANY NAME AND ADDRESS
TELEPHONE,
FAX, E-MAIL AND WEBSITE ADDRESSES
SENIOR
CONTACT PERSONNEL
Includes executives with specific financial, technical and purchasing
responsibilities:
Chairman, President, CEO, Finance Director, Treasurer, Marketing/Sales
Director, Operational Director, Technical Director, Business
Development Manager, Purchasing Manager, R&D Manager
PRODUCT
AND SERVICES CLASSIFICATIONS
FULL
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY ACTIVITY
Main products manufactured and services provided, at parent
head office and local levels
LOCAL
COMPANY PROFILE
Number of employees, date of company establishment and (where
available) US$ sales turnover
NATIONALITY
All entries are identified by single or joint nationality status.
Countries represented include the US, Japan, UK, Germany, France,
Netherlands, Switzerland and over 25 others worldwide.
OWNERSHIP
STATUS AND PARENTAGE
Local company identified as multinational subsidiary, joint
venture, agent, representative or by trade association. Includes
name and location of parent or associated company.
COVERING
23 KEY MARKETS
Each Directory features leading subsidiaries, joint ventures
and representatives in 23 major emerging markets worldwide:
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ASIA
China
Hong Kong
Indonesia
Malaysia
Philippines
Singapore
Thailand
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LATIN
AMERICA
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Mexico
Peru
Venezuela
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MIDDLE
EAST/AFRICA
Egypt
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
Turkey
UAE
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EMERGING
EUROPE
Czech Republic
Hungary
Poland
Russia
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