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Ukrainian IT industry to keep on growing in 2012-2013

In the last two years Ukrainian IT market has been recovering after a sharp decline experienced in 2009. The market […]

By pmr | 14 Jun 12 | Also posted in Private Equity, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Retail grocery market to provide €117bn in 2014 in the CE region

PMR estimates that in 2011 the grocery market in six Central European (CE) countries was worth nearly €107bn, 2.8% more […]

By pmr | 13 Jun 12 | Also posted in Private Equity, Stocks | Comments (0)

Roads to be a driving force of the Bulgarian construction market

Access to EU funding and the investments in the energy sector are the predominant factors determining the development of the […]

By pmr | 12 Jun 12 | Also posted in Private Equity, Real Estate, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Russian Sberbank buys DenizBank for $3.5 Billion

Sberbank, the Russian state retail bank, bought the eighth-largest bank in Turkey on Friday in the latest in a series […]

By M Guliyev | 09 Jun 12 | Also posted in Regions, Stocks, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

A Greek Exit Could Make the Euro Area Stronger

A Greek Exit Could Make the Euro Area Stronger Illustration by Partners and Others By Jacob Kirkegaard  A Greek exit […]

By Aidualc | 08 Jun 12 | Also posted in Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

European Crisis: A Greek Exit Would Only Be The Start, Not The End

European Crisis: A Greek Exit Would Only Be The Start, Not The End Could the euro become a thing of […]

By Aidualc | 06 Jun 12 | Also posted in Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Polish construction market poised to grow 5% in 2012

The Polish construction market will continue to show strong performance in 2012 in terms of the value of projects completed. […]

By pmr | 30 May 12 | Also posted in Private Equity, Real Estate, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

The Big Mac Theory of Development

By Charles Kenny, Bloomberg, It’s a question richer people have about their poorer neighbors: Why are they poor? Is it […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 29 May 12 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Food for Thought, Latin America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Poles prefer traditional Polish cuisine but McDonald’s, Da Grasso and KFC are the biggest chain restaurants

Spending time away from home in the workplace or at school is the most common occasion for eating out for […]

By pmr | | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Private Equity, Statistics, Stocks, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Hungarian construction market to recover in 2013-2014

After a poor 2009-2012 for the Hungarian construction industry, from 2013 a visible market recovery is expected. The growth in […]

By pmr | | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Private Equity, Real Estate | Comments (0)