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- $765
Read More Thailand Business Forecast Report
72 pages    ISSN: 1474-1415    Pub date: February 26 2010    Quarterly   
Nascent Recovery Under Way While Thailand’s deep societal rifts will continue to spur political tensions, businesses and investors can at least take comfort in stronger signals that the worst of the recession has now likely passed. The improved sentiment has been evident in the stock market, which...
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ISSN: 1470-7810    Monthly   
South East Asia Monitor Vol 1 each month provides country-by-country analyses, ratings and forecasts covering political risk, economic performance, key industries, finance and the business environment
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ISSN: 1359-0006    Weekly   
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- $875
Read More Thailand Autos Report
39 pages    Pub date: March 12 2010    Quarterly   
Sales of new vehicles in Thailand declined 13.4% y-o-y in June 2009, to 43,402 units, according to data compiled by Toyota Motor Thailand (TMT). This took new vehicle sales for H109 to 231,428 units, a fall of 28% y-o-y. Annualised, this would result in a full-year 2009 domestic sales figure of less than 463,000, compared ...
- $875
Read More Thailand Petrochemicals Report
63 pages    Pub date: March 12 2010    Quarterly   
The development of the Thai petrochemicals industry and the country’s bid to become a major supplier to China is at risk as legal controversy surrounds new capacity due to come on stream at the massive Map Ta Phut petrochemicals hub, according to BMI’s latest Thailand Petrochemicals Report. In 2009, Thailand had o...
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Read More Thailand Telecommunications Report
101 pages    Pub date: March 12 2010    Quarterly   
Could consolidation of Thailand’s market be on the cards? Hutchison Telecom has refrained from reporting its KPIs for Q209, as its parent company decides on whether to exit the Thai mobile market. The operator, which has been discounting its inactive subscriber base, and is estimated by BMI to have had 1.020mn sub...
- $875
Read More Thailand Real Estate Report
69 pages    Pub date: March 11 2010    Quarterly   
The Thai economy remains mired in problems related both to the global financial crisis, which has seen exports shrink dramatically, and to the ongoing political uncertainty, which threatens to flare into open conflict and violence at any time. Both these factors have contributed to the collapse of the tourist industry, with ...
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Read More Thailand Food & Drink Report
77 pages    Pub date: March 3 2010    Quarterly   
The Thai economy has taken a beating from the global financial crisis, with BMI now forecasting that real GDP will shrink by 4.5% in 2009. This has inevitably had a negative impact on consumer confidence, and in turn, the country’s food and drink sector. Nevertheless, a number of major producers have posted posit...
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Read More Thailand Consumer Electronics Report
43 pages    Pub date: February 26 2010    Quarterly   
Thailand’s consumer electronics devices market, defined as the addressable market for computing devices, mobile handsets and AV products, is projected at around US$6.1bn in 2010. This is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 8% to US$8.3bn by 2014, driven by growing affordability and new produ...
- $875
Read More Thailand Oil & Gas Report
100 pages    Pub date: February 18 2010    Quarterly   
The latest Thailand Oil & Gas Report from BMI forecasts that the country will account for 2.93% of Asia Pacific regional oil demand by 2014, while providing 2.68% of supply. Asia Pacific regional oil use of 21.40mn barrels per day (b/d) in 2001 reached an estimated 25.44mn b/d in 2009. It should average 25.93mn b/d in 2010, then...
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Read More Thailand Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Report
74 pages    Pub date: February 11 2010    Quarterly   
In BMI’s Pharmaceutical Environment Ratings (BER) table for Q110, Thailand slipped from ninth to tenth position among the 15 key markets surveyed in the Asia Pacific region. Thailand’s growing and ageing population represents a substantial commercial opportunity for drugmakers, although its controversial compulsory licensi...
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Read More Thailand Infrastructure Report
70 pages    Pub date: February 10 2010    Quarterly   
We estimate that Thailand’s construction sector contracted by 8.3% in 2009, on the back of a contraction of 4.7% in 2008. The rate of the sector’s estimated decline in 2009 outstrips that for the economy as a whole, due to the highly cyclical nature of private sector construction activity. Fiscal constraints, meanwhile, li...
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Read More Thailand Defence & Security Report
66 pages    Pub date: February 3 2010    Quarterly   
Thailand, in Q409, avoided outright violence in its ongoing political stand-off between the ‘red-shirts’, broadly supporters of exiled former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, and the royalist-backed Peoples Alliance for Democracy, the ‘yellow-shirts’. but tensions continued to run high. Rallies planned initially by the red-sh...
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ISSN: 1359-0006    Weekly   
Emerging Markets Monitor provides weekly analyses, forecasts and ratings on fixed income, foreign exchange, commodities, bonds, equities and funds across global markets, all backed by Business Monitor International’s highly respected assessments of political and macroeconomic risk.
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ISSN: 1064-1912    Weekly   
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Read More Multinational Companies in Thailand CD-ROM
316 pages    ISSN: 1465-0304    Pub date: October 12 2009    Annual   
Multinational Companies in Thailand CD-ROM - Sample Company Profile DaimlerChrysler (Thailand) Ltd 19/F, Rajanakarn Building 183 South Sathorn Road Yannawa, Sathorn Bangkok 10120 Thailand Tel: +66 (2) 676 ...
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