Slovakia Business Forecast Report

Published: February 26 2010  Quarterly   

Product Description

The Slovakia Business Forecast Report helps businesses with Slovakian market assessment, strategic planning and decision making to promote growth and profitability in Slovakia 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 Slovakia'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 Slovakia's economic and industry growth through end-2014
• Identify and evaluate adverse political and economic trends in Slovakia, to facilitate risk mitigation
• Assess the critical shortcomings of Slovakia's business environment that pose hidden barriers and costs to corporate profitability
• Contextualise Slovakia's country risks against regional peers using BMI's country comparative risk ratings system
• Target business opportunities in Slovakia's high-growth industry sectors
• Evaluate external threats to doing business in Slovakia, including currency volatility, the commodity price boom and protectionist policies

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

Slovakia's Political Outlook:

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

BMI's Slovakia 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.

Slovakia Political Outlook Contents

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

Key Benefits

• Benchmark Slovakia'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 Slovakia, and to your company's current operations and future plans.
• Gain valuable insights into the Slovakian government and policy-making, through BMI's specialist team of analysts and economists, and their exclusive network of private and public sector sources.

Slovakia's Economic Outlook:

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

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

Slovakia Economic Outlook Contents

The Slovakia 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 Slovakian government views. Underpinning our Slovakia 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 Slovakia

• Economic Activity in Slovakia
  Real GDP growth; industrial growth; employment growth; inflation and consumer prices; consumption (indicative wages, retail sales, consumer confidence)
• Fiscal Policy in Slovakia
  Current macroeconomic strategy and implementation policies; government finance (revenue, expenditure, budget balance); tax reforms
• Monetary Policy in Slovakia
  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 Slovakia
  Merchandise trade (exports, imports, trade balance); current and capital account balances
• Foreign Direct Investment in Slovakia
  Foreign direct investment approvals and inflows; the foreign investment climate
• Slovakian 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 Slovakia and underlying assumptions - we take no advertising and are privately-owned.
• Exploit the benefits of BMI's comprehensive and reliable macroeconomic database on Slovakia, 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 Slovakian government economic policy

Slovakia's Business Environment:

Slovakia's Business Environment Risk Rating with SWOT Analysis

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

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

Slovakia Business Environment Contents

• Slovakia'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 Slovakia
  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 Slovakia
  Analysis of trading environment, government trade policy, liberalisation measures, tariffs and membership of trade areas

Slovakia's Key Industry Sectors

Which industry sectors in Slovakia will grow fastest, and where are the major investment opportunities in the Slovakian market?

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

Slovakia's Key Industry Sectors Contents

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

Coverage of Slovakia'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 Slovakia
  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 Slovakia
  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 Slovakia'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 Slovakia's major industry sectors, including analysis of recent trends in sales and market share, company strategies, product launches and latest deals.