South Africa Business Forecast Report

Published: January 12 2010 Quarterly   

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The South Africa Business Forecast Report provides essential macroeconomic, political and financial analysis for companies doing business in South Africa.

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Report Description

The South Africa Business Forecast Report helps businesses with South African market assessment, strategic planning and decision making to promote growth and profitability in South Africa and is an essential tool for CEOs, Chairmen, Finance Directors/CFOs, Managing Directors, Marketing/Sales Directors with commercial interests in this emerging market.

An influential new analysis of South Africa's political, economic and financial prospects through end-2014, just published by award-winning forecasters, Business Monitor International.

Key Uses

  • Forecast the pace and stability of South Africa's economic and industry growth through end-2014
  • Identify and evaluate adverse political and economic trends in South Africa, to facilitate risk mitigation
  • Assess the critical shortcomings of South Africa's business environment that pose hidden barriers and costs to corporate profitability
  • Contextualise South Africa's country risks against regional peers using BMI's country comparative risk ratings system
  • Target business opportunities in South Africa's high-growth industry sectors
  • Evaluate external threats to doing business in South Africa, including currency volatility, the commodity price boom and protectionist policies

The South Africa Business Forecast Report by Business Monitor International (BMI) includes four major sections: South Africa's Political Outlook, South Africa's Economic Outlook, South Africa's Business Environment and South Africa's Key Industry Sectors.

South Africa's Political Outlook:

What are the political risks to doing business in South Africa over the next 5-years?

BMI's South Africa Country Risk Ratings evaluate the short- and medium-term threats posed by government instability, adverse economic policy-making, deterioration in the business environment and external shocks.

South Africa Political Outlook Contents

  • SWOT Analysis for the South African Market
    Political strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing South Africa.
  • Political Stability and Risk Assessment for South Africa
    BMI's Risk Ratings assess explicit short and long-term risks to political stability; latest ratings, rankings and trends for South Africa's risk are compared with regional and global averages.
  • Current Administration and Policy-making in South Africa
    BMI profiles key policy-makers and power-brokers in the South African government, assessing threats to the continuity of South African economic policy, and likely changes to the business operating environment through end-2018.
  • South African Foreign Policy
    BMI examines key trends and shifts in South Africa's foreign relations and alignments with regional neighbours, the United States and Europe, focusing on external influences.

Key Benefits

  • Benchmark South Africa's risk profile against its neighbours, the global and regional average, allowing easy comparison of risks between key business markets.
  • Identify, evaluate and anticipate political and security risks to the business environment in South Africa, and to your company's current operations and future plans.
  • Gain valuable insights into the South African government and policy-making, through BMI's specialist team of analysts and economists, and their exclusive network of private and public sector sources.

South Africa's Economic Outlook:

How will South African economic policy-making and performance impact on corporate profitability over 2009-2014?

BMI provides our fully independent 5-year forecasts for South Africa through end-2014 for more than 35 macroeconomic variables. We evaluate South African growth, and also forecast the impact of economic management, including central bank policy, on profitability.

South Africa Economic Outlook Contents

The South Africa Business Forecast Report features explicit BMI economic forecasts for country, with supporting commentary and analysis, for end-2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 set against South African government views. Underpinning our South Africa forecasts are key assumptions for the global economy through end-2014, covering growth, inflation, employment, trade and investment, interest and exchange rates in the US, Japan and the Euro-zone.

Coverage of Key Economic Issues in South Africa

  • Economic Activity in South Africa
    Real GDP growth; industrial growth; employment growth; inflation and consumer prices; consumption (indicative wages, retail sales, consumer confidence)
  • Fiscal Policy in South Africa
    Current macroeconomic strategy and implementation policies; government finance (revenue, expenditure, budget balance); tax reforms
  • Monetary Policy in South Africa
    Interest rate trends (bank lending and deposit rates); inflation (retail price inflation, consumer price inflation); exchange rate policy in country; currency controls; influence of foreign direct investment inflows; exchange rates and foreign exchange reserves
  • Balance of Payments in South Africa
    Merchandise trade (exports, imports, trade balance); current and capital account balances
  • Foreign Direct Investment in South Africa
    Foreign direct investment approvals and inflows; the foreign investment climate
  • South African External Debt
    Debt profile (short- and long-term debt; public and private sector exposure)

Key Benefits

  • Rely upon BMI's 100% independent Forecast Scenarios for South Africa and underlying assumptions - we take no advertising and are privately-owned.
  • Exploit the benefits of BMI's comprehensive and reliable macroeconomic database on South Africa, sourced and fully maintained by BMI from an extensive network of private sector, government and multilateral contacts.
  • Gain key insights into the current and future direction of South African government economic policy

South Africa's Business Environment:

South Africa's Business Environment Risk Rating with SWOT Analysis

Short- and long-term business environment risk ratings for South Africa, benchmarked against ratings for regional neighbours.

Country Competitiveness for South Africa
Competitiveness of South Africa's business operating environment in supporting corporate growth and profitability over the 5-year forecast horizon, compared with regional neighbours.

South Africa Business Environment Contents

  • South Africa's Domestic Environment.
    Transparency, cronyism and corruption; labour market flexibility; corporate tax burden; interest rate levels; access of private sector to lines of credit; sophistication of banking sector and stock market; levels of business confidence; infrastructure and IT
  • Foreign Direct Investment in South Africa
    Analysis of foreign investment regime, foreign ownership laws; attractiveness of business environment to foreign investors; review of major foreign direct investments over the last 24 months, and of strategic sectors attracting most interest
  • Foreign Trade with South Africa
    Analysis of trading environment, government trade policy, liberalisation measures, tariffs and membership of trade areas

South Africa's Key Industry Sectors

Which industry sectors in South Africa will grow fastest, and where are the major investment opportunities in the South African market?

BMI’s identifies investment opportunities in South Africa's high growth industries including automotives, defence & security, food & drink, freight transport, infrastructure, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & healthcare and IT.

South Africa's Key Industry Sectors Contents

BMI’s independent 5-year forecasts to end-2014's and industry trend analyses for South Africa leading industry sectors, including a selection from:


Automotive - Defence & Security - Food & Drink - Freight Transport - Infrastructure
- Oil & Gas - Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare - Telecommunications

Coverage of South Africa's Key Industry Sectors

  • Market Overview
    Size, value and structure of industry; impact of liberalisation and privatisation on sector performance and prospects; friendliness of business environment
  • Latest Developments in South Africa
    Review of latest projects, deals, privatisations, mergers and acquisitions, and implications for sector performance; company rankings for national and multinational companies in country; main industry players by local sales, employee size, market share and main brands, products and services
  • Company Rankings
    Main industry players by local sales, employee size, market share and main brands, products and services
  • 5-year Industry Forecast for South Africa
    Historic dataset 2005-2009 and BMI forecasts through end-2014, covering headline industry data broken out by sub sector

Key Benefits

  1. Target strategic sector-by-sector opportunities in South Africa's high growth industries, attracting public expenditure and foreign investment; identify key players and competitors driving growth, investment and business opportunities.
  2. Benefit from competitive intelligence on top national and multinational companies operating in South Africa's major industry sectors, including analysis of recent trends in sales and market share, company strategies, product launches and latest deals.

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