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Overview With a significant unbanked population, a burgeoning e-commerce market, and a tech savvy, young population, Indonesia’s fintech growth story is unfolding with a number of startups disrupting an industry that has traditionally been dominated by big banks and financial institutions. Indonesia is among the top five in the world in terms of number of […]
Chinese moviegoers bought a total of 548 million movie tickets in China in 2020, and the country’s total box office reached CNY 20.4 billion (about USD 3 billion) in 2020, overtaking the North America to become the world’s largest movie market for the first time (until 2019, China had been the world’s second largest movie […]
India’s e-commerce market has been booming but the story is just beginning. Out of India’s 1.3 billion population (the world’s second largest after China), an estimated 574 million are active internet users according to consulting company Kantar representing an internet penetration rate of about 44%. That is bigger than the entire population of the United […]
China is one of the world’s largest food producers. With the country’s middle class expanding along with growing incomes, food demand in China has been on a steady growth path. China is the world’s largest wheat consumer, largest fruit consumer, largest egg consumer, and largest meat consumer. China is the world’s biggest importer of soybeans, is […]
According to Euromonitor China’s “free from meat” market which includes plant-based meat products has grown 33.5% since 2014 to reach US$ 9.7 billion in 2019. The industry is forecast to reach US$ 11.9 billion by 2023. Already the world’s largest market for alternative meats, the Covid pandemic could serve as a catalyst to encourage greater […]
Wheat flour saw a spike in demand early this year in the United States, as a Coronavirus baking boom and widespread stay at home orders triggered demand from retail consumers for family flour (used for home baking),and wheat-based prepared and processed food stuffs such as pasta, breads, and wheat-based snack products. America’s number one flour […]
Like many other countries that have been economically affected by the COVID crisis, Singapore, Southeast Asia’s fifth largest economy, has officially entered into a technical recession with the economy contracting 13.2% year on year during the second quarter of 2020 and The Straits Times Index entering bear territory as well with a decline of nearly […]
Demand Over the past nearly two decades, global soybean demand has outpaced other crops such as corn, cotton, rice, and wheat. According to figures from U.S. Soy, soybean demand has grown 229% during the 1990/91 marketing year to 2017/18 compared to 123% for corn, and 34% for wheat. Growth has been driven by growing demand […]
China’s cold chain logistics market has been growing steadily over the past several years. According to management consulting firm L.E.K. Consulting, China’s cold chain market grew from RMB 81 billion in 2011 to RMB 181 billion in 2015 representing a growth rate of over 20% annually. Yet, there is still ample potential for growth. China’s […]
The public cloud market is growing at a rapid clip around the world. The worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow from US$ 182.4 billion in 2018 to US$ 331.2 billion by 2022 representing a CAGR of 16.08% according to research from Gartner. The fastest growing market segment is expected to be cloud […]
Chinese edtech startups accounted for 50% of all global VC investment in edtech, during the period 2016-2018 according to market research firm HolonIQ. Chinese have traditionally placed tremendous importance on education. The gaokao, China’s notoriously tough entrance examination, is known as one of the toughest exams in the world, and gaokao scores are now being […]
Malaysia’s digital economy, as defined by its government registered an average growth of 9% annually between 2010 and 2016 in value-added terms, exceeding Malaysia’s overall GDP growth rate during the period. In 2018, Malaysia’s digital economy grew 6.9% year-on-year to reach RM 267.7 billion, contributing 18.5% to the national economy (up from 18.3% in 2017) […]
Of the few options available to End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) patients, transplantation is the most cost effective and offers a relatively better quality of life. Yet, the supply of transplant organs falls far short of demand and as a result the transplant waiting list has continued to increase over the past few decades. American […]
Chemicals are used to produce almost everything in the world today. The chemical and petrochemical industry represents the largest contributor to industrial energy demand worldwide accounting for about 10% of global total final energy consumption and about 7% of greenhouse gas emissions associated with industry according to the International Energy Agency. Yet, as the world […]
Bangladesh rarely comes to mind when thinking about startups but with a population of some 160 million (which makes it the world’s eighth most populous country) over 46% of which belong to the entrepreneurial and tech-savvy “Gen Z” generation of youngsters aged 24 and below (over 50% of the country’s citizens have internet access and […]
Rising internet penetration, a young population, and rising incomes are pushing Southeast Asian shoppers online, thereby opening exciting opportunities for business and investment. Southeast Asia’s 655 million plus population is increasingly migrating towards a digital-centric lifestyle, going online to conduct day-to-day activities such as shopping, entertainment, payments, and transport. Driven by an expanding middle class and a […]
Having revolutionized banking, blockchain, the underlying technology behind Bitcoin, is set to bring change to the multi-trillion dollar real estate industry. The global real estate industry, estimated to be worth trillions of dollars, could prove to be a lucrative industry to disrupt considering the current systems related to land titling which involves mountains of documents into which […]
Demand for Malaysian industrial real estate could rise further driven by a resilient manufacturing sector and ASEAN’s growing e-commerce market. Accounting for just 1.8% of Malaysian property transaction volume and 8.3% of transaction value, industrial properties contribute the least to Malaysia’s property transactions by volume and value according to data from Malaysia’s National Valuation and Property […]
The agtech startup scene is booming with venture capital funding climbing steadily over the past few years. According to data from PitchBook and US fund Finistere Ventures, the agtech industry raked in US$ 1.5 billion in investments in 2017, most of which were in early stage startups. The flurry of interest in agtech startups is driven […]
The gap between global water demand and global water supply is widening. Already more than half of the people in the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa), live under conditions of “water stress” (i.e., the demand for water exceeds supply) according to the World Bank and a report by the United Nations reveals that the […]
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) also known as the One Belt and One Road Initiative (OBOR), is an ambitious, trillion-dollar infrastructure project that aims to connect countries along two primary trade routes known as the “Silk Road Economic Belt” and the “Maritime Silk Road” in an effort to enhance connectivity, investment, international trade, and economic […]
The complexity of today’s food chains has resulted in problems such as food fraud (which is estimated to cost US$ 30 – US$ 40 billion a year according to PwC), food waste (which is estimated to cost US$ 750 billion annually to local food producers according to the United Nations), and food safety problems such […]
Venture capital funding into Southeast Asian startups tripled in 2017 from US$ 2.52 billion in 2016 to US$ 7.86 billion in 2017 according to data from Tech in Asia. The flurry of activity in Southeast Asia’s startup scene is not surprising; the 11-country region has a population of about 650 million, about 42% of which […]