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Potentially the Gulf region’s most premiumised consumer market ahead of the UAE, food and drink companies will look to leverage off consumer spending power.
With a modest population of 1.7mn restricting long-term volume growth across its food and drink industry, growth will be led largely by premiumisation.
Yet over the near term, demand for high margin products is likely to remain fairly restrained as the recovery in the non-energy economy continues to lag. Conditions are not yet conducive to a calibration away from retrenchment.
Headline Industry Data

• 2010 per capita food consumption = +4.73%; forecast to 2014 = +19.32%
• 2010 soft drinks value sales = +21.07%; forecast to 2014 = +34.51%
• 2010 mass grocery retail sales = +16.01%; forecast to 2014 = +47.19%
• Key Macroeconomic Data
• 2010 Real GDP growth = +15.2% (2009, +8.1%)
• 2010 Consumer Price Index = -0.67% chg y-o-y (period average) (2009, -4.86%)

Key Company Trends
Multinational Interest Growing – Multinational interest in the Gulf region continues to strengthen with leading multinationals stepping up investment. Qatar like the UAE provides a high-income market well suited to premiumised goods. Companies like the global confectionery giant Mars, New Zealand dairy behemoth Fonterra and Nestlé have been stepping up fixed asset investment into the region.
Key Risks to Outlook
Qatar’s position as a major hydrocarbon exporter and the effect oil and gas inflows have on economic output leaves the country susceptible to a slowdown in global demand inflicted by growing concerns over the state of the world economy, with downside risks coming from China and the eurozone.

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Since Q108, we have described numerically the banking business environment for each of the countries surveyed by BMI. We do this through our Commercial Banking Business Environment Rating (CBBER), a measure that ensures we capture the latest quantitative information available. It also ensures consistency across all countries and between the inputs to the CBBER and the Insurance Business Environment Rating, which is likewise now a feature of our insurance reports. Like the Business Environment Ratings calculated by BMI for all the other industries on which it reports, the CBBER takes into account the limits of potential returns and the risks to the realisation of those returns. It is weighted 70% to the former and 30% to the latter.
The evaluation of the Limits of Potential Returns includes market elements that are specific to the banking industry of the country in question and elements that relate to that country in general. Within the 70% of the CBBER that takes into account the Limits of Potential Returns, the market elements have a 60% weighting and the country elements have a 40% weighting. The evaluation of the Risks to the Realisation of Returns also includes banking elements and country elements (specifically, BMI’s assessment of long-term country risk). However, within the 30% of the CBBER that take into account the risks, these elements are weighted 40% and 60%, respectively.
Further details on how we calculate the CBBER are provided at the end of this report. In general, though, three aspects need to be borne in mind in interpreting the CBBERs. The first is that the market elements of the Limits of Potential Returns are by far the most heavily weighted of the four elements. They account for 60% of 70% (or 42%) of the overall CBBER. Second, if the market elements are significantly higher than the country elements of the Limits of Potential Returns, it usually implies that the banking sector is (very) large and/or developed relative to the general wealth, stability and financial infrastructure in the country. Conversely, if the market elements are significantly lower than the country elements, it usually means that the banking sector is small and/or underdeveloped relative to the general wealth, stability and financial infrastructure in the country. Third, within the Risks to the Realisation of Returns category, the market elements (ie: how regulations affect the development of the sector, how regulations affect competition within it, and Moody’s Investors Service’s ratings for local currency deposits) can be markedly different from BMI’s long-term risk rating.

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In this report, BMI forecasts that Qatar will account for 2.22% of Middle East and Africa (MEA) regional power generation by 2014, with a modest theoretical generation surplus. BMI’s MEA power generation estimate for 2009 is 1,225 terawatt hours (TWh), representing an increase of 1.9% over the previous year. We are forecasting an increase in regional generation to 1,572TWh by 2014, representing a rise of 23.2% between 2010 and the end of the forecast period.
Thermal power generation in 2009 is estimated by BMI at 1,064TWh, accounting for 86.9% of the total electricity supplied in the region. Our forecast for 2014 is 1,293TWh, implying 18.8% growth in 2010- 2014 that reduces the market share of thermal generation slightly to 82.3% – thanks in part to environmental concerns that should be promoting renewable such as hydro-electricity and nuclear generation. Qatar’s thermal generation in 2009 was an estimated 21.3TWh, or 2.00% of the regional total. By 2014, the country is expected to account for 2.70% of thermal generation.
For Qatar, gas was the dominant fuel in 2009, accounting for an estimated 81.4% of primary energy demand (PED), followed by oil at 18.8%. Regional energy demand is forecast to reach 1,075mn tonnes of oil equivalent (toe) by 2014, representing 19.3% growth over the period since 2010. Qatar’s estimated 2009 market share of 2.72% is set to rise to 3.49% by 2014.
Qatar is still ranked first ahead of the UAE in BMI’s updated Power Business Environment Ratings, thanks largely to its market size and low level of energy import dependency, and in spite of its particularly low proportion of renewables use. The power sector is competitive, with good progress towards privatisation. The regulatory environment remains relatively unattractive. Qatar has the potential to keep the UAE at bay for the foreseeable future.
BMI now forecasts that 2010 real GDP growth will average 8.2% a year in 2010-2014, with 2010 growth forecast at 15.2%. The population is expected to expand from 1.7mn to 1.9mn over the period. GDP per capita is forecast to rise by 21% during 2010-2014 and electricity consumption per capita is expected to increase by 28%. Power consumption is expected to increase from an estimated 20TWh in 2009 to 33TWh by the end of the forecast period, providing a small theoretical generation surplus – assuming 10.4% average annual growth (2010-2014) in electricity generation.
Between 2010 and 2019, we are forecasting an increase in Qatari electricity generation of 127.2%, which is among the highest in the range for the MEA region. This equates to 52.4% in the 2014-2019 period, up from 49.1% in 2010-2014. PED growth is set to rise from 45.2% in 2010-2014 to 49.7%, representing 117.2% for the entire forecast period. Thermal power generation is forecast to rise by 127.2% between 2010 and 2019. More details of the longer-term BMI power forecasts can be found towards the end of this report.


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Qatar’s hopes of a sustained surge in petrochemicals capacities on the back of its competitive advantage in ethane feedstock have been dashed by the withdrawal of two foreign investors – ExxonMobil Chemical and Honam Petrochemical – from planned petrochemical mega-projects, putting into question the country’s petrochemicals output target of 30mn tpa by 2014, according to BMI’s latest Qatar Petrochemicals Report.
ExxonMobil is reportedly considering withdrawing from the next planned cracker project at Ras Laffan, while South Korea’s Honam Petrochemical has ended months of speculation and announced that it was indeed withdrawing from its joint venture (JV) with Qatar Petroleum (QP) due to a steep increase in costs, poor availability of project finance and the global economic crisis. The capacities envisaged by the Honam-backed complex were substantial, including 1.05mn tpa ethylene, 700,000tpa PP and 220,000tpa PS. Meanwhile, the status of a major Shell-QP cracker and derivatives complex in Ras Laffan is also unclear – five years after a letter of intent was signed, some reports suggest that start-up has been pushed forward as far as 2015, from earlier predictions of 2011-2012.
Coming onstream a year late due to the global economic crisis and a tight construction market, the Ras Laffan Olefins Company (RLOC) – made up of Q-Chem II (53.3%), Qatofin (45.7%) and QP (1%) – inaugurated a 1.3mn tpa ethylene plant in May 2010, the largest ethane cracker in the world. The Ras Laffan cracker supplies both the Q-Chem II petrochemical complex and Qatofin’s 450,000tpa LLDPE plant, both in Mesaieed, which was opened in November 2009. The cracker will also supply ethylene to HDPE and alpha-olefin plants being built by Q-Chem II that are due for completion in H210. Only 10% of RLOC’s output will be consumed on the domestic market, with around 35% of the HDPE output exported to Europe and Africa and 55% to Asia. In line with this investment, Qapco has launched an expansion project in Mesaieed Industrial City to set up its third PE production line, LDPE-3, adding 300,000tpa to Qapco’s output of LDPE, augmenting overall annual LDPE production to 700,000 tonnes by the end of 2011, reportedly a year behind the original schedule.
Qatari production will grow rapidly at a rate of 7.5% in 2010, compared with forecast global growth of 4.5%. However, the collapse of the Honam JV means that Qatar will remain without PP or PS facilities for the foreseeable future. While producers have reduced PS capacities globally due to its falling popularity, failure to proceed with production of PP means that Qatar will be unable to tap into the rapid growth in this segment. Qatar’s decision to press ahead with LDPE also appears to be misjudged, given the slow rate of growth in this segment as transformers switch to improved LLDPE and PP grades as alternatives. PVC is also absent from current expansion plans, which means the country will be unable to take full advantage of the expected recovery in the construction industry worldwide. For the time being, Qatar will export VCM and EDC to Asia.
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In our view Qatar's small population size is countered by its consumer spending power, making container shipping a vital part of Qatar's maritime make-up.
For the long term of this sector, it is therefore imperative that Qatar has the right transport network in place. The country is investing not only in a new airport and railway network, but also a new port, the New Doha Port, which is due online 2015. The port will offer capacity for 2mn 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) a year, and considering that throughput at the nation's current port of Doha is estimated at 475,670TEUs for 2010 the New Doha port will offer more than enough capacity for the foreseeable future. It is possible that Qatar will seek to use the new facility for transhipment of containers for other countries in the region.
BMI's Qatar Container Shipping Key Views:

• Requirement for new port facility after current port surpassed its capacity
• Small population means that demand for containers will be small in comparison with regional
• neighbours
• Qatar's location offers excellent links to other Gulf States, but ability to develop as a
• transhipment point likely to be thwarted by the ever-dominant Jebel Ali
• Domestic shipping lines likely to remain geared toward catering for LNG transit, though

opportunities in the container feeder sector, between UAE and Qatar, do exist Although BMI believes that the global container shipping sector is in for a tougher H2 following an uptick in the box shipping sector in H1, we believe that Qatar's container demand is relatively sheltered from external shocks as the country's port, according to BMI's estimates, managed to grow in 2009 by an estimated 3.8%, a feat few ports worldwide could accomplish in the midst of the downturn. Having said that, the nation's consumers do appear to be getting jittery, with consumer confidence in the emirate, according to the MasterCard Worldwide Index of Consumer Confidence, falling. This offers downside risk to our forecast that container throughput at the port of Doha will reach 475,670TEUs in 2010, year-on-year (y-o-y) growth of 9%.
BMI's Global Container Shipping Key Views:

• Y-o-y recovery, but not near 2008 levels
• Consumer demand in core box markets of US and Europe to fall
• Weakening demand view starting to play out as peak-season surcharges delayed
• Recovery signs in H1 may have been misleading
• Intra-Asia trade routes an area of potential growth and development

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In BMI’s updated Q410 Business Environment Ratings (BER) for the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, Qatar is placed 10th out of 19 countries. Globally, Qatar ranks 58th, out of the 77 countries surveyed in our ever-expanding pharmaceutical universe. On the Risks side, Qatar offers an attractive operating regime, in addition to a sound economic base and predictable policies. However, on the recently remodelled Rewards side, we judge Qatar to be more challenging, given its smaller and young population, which precludes higher rates of the use of pharmaceuticals and medical services in general. Nevertheless, we expect the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of the overall market value to be a strong 10.01% over our five-year forecast period (local tender is pegged to the US dollar), reaching QAR1.37bn (US$375mn) in 2014, from the calculated QAR848mn (US$233mn) in 2009.
However, although pharmaceutical regulatory risk is low at present, we also caution that the government may be forced to take a less generous approach to reimbursement if oil revenues decline, especially in the aftermath of the creation of a new Supreme Council of Health, with powers to set prices for medical services and pharmaceuticals. Still, given the relative wealth of the country, spending by Qataris will continue to favour high-value drugs. Moreover, the prevalence of chronic ‘civilisation’ diseases such as diabetes and hypertension will also serve maintain demand for patented products, although patent expirations will hamper faster value development of the segment.
Economic fundamentals of Qatar are also solid, with the GDP expected to grow by 15% year-on-year (yo- y) in the course of 2010, backed up by relatively high oil and gas prices, thus allowing for an increase in fiscal expenditure. However, domestic consumption does not reveal a particularly bright outlook, which will also have a bearing on the usage of non-essential medical products and services. On a more positive note, international ratings agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) recently upgraded Qatar's longterm sovereign credit rating to AA, due to the government's solid fiscal and external balance sheets. In the meantime, Qatar and the wider Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region will continue to attract healthcare investments as demand for medical services continues to grow. In fact, in line with our core view that emerging markets will drive industry growth, Qatar First Investment Bank (QFIB) and Dubai-based Ithmar Capital, a regional private equity firm, recently launched a new healthcare platform which will seek to capitalise on the extensive growth opportunities in the sector in the GCC. Ithmar Capital has taken an AED1bn (US$272.2mn) majority stake in Al Noor Medical Company in Abu Dhabi, a privately-run healthcare company that operates three hospitals, three clinics and 10 pharmacies, in order to create a regional healthcare services company. Similarly, Imad Ghandour, Executive Director of Gulf Capital, a leading alternative asset management company recently asserted that:
“Healthcare is the number one sector of interest for private equity firms in this region."


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Qatar’s consumer electronics devices market, defined as the addressable market for computing devices, mobile handsets and video, audio and gaming products, is projected at around US$424.9mn in 2010. The Qatar market entered 2010 in stronger condition than many of its regional neighbours and healthy growth is expected, after a deceleration in 2009, and spending is forecast to increase to US$551.1mn by 2014. The addressable market for consumer electronics devices will be driven by a rapidly expanding economy and an average population growth rate of 3% over the next five years. An evolving retail landscape will help to stimulate sales of consumer electronics devices, as the market grows at an expected 2010-2014 compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.7%. Other drivers will include product innovation and factors such as increased competition in the mobile communications sector and the rollout of high-spend broadband services.
Computers
Computer hardware accounted for about 48% of Qatari consumer electronics spending in 2009. BMI forecasts Qatari domestic market computer hardware sales (including notebooks and accessories) of US$204.8mn in 2010, up from US$189.6mn in 2009. Computer hardware CAGR for the 2010-2014 period is forecast at about 9.4%, with drivers including tenders in sectors such as healthcare and education.
AV Devices
Audio and video (AV) devices accounted for around 36% of Qatari consumer electronics spending in 2009. Qatar’s domestic AV device market is estimated at US$148.2mn in 2010. The market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 3.1% between 2010 and 2014 to US$166.6mn by 2014.
Mobile Handsets
Handset sales in Qatar are expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.7% in 2010-2014 to US$90mn by the end of the forecast period. The replacement market will continue to dominate as mobile penetration passes 271% in 2014, and there will be growing demand for smartphones and 3G handsets. Increased competition in the mobile communications market following the launch of services by Vodafone Qatar in August 2009 will help to boost handset sales. During 2010, Vodafone Qatar has promised to launch internet-enabled lowcost handsets, some for as little as US$20, to encourage uptake from lower-income consumers.


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There are no comprehensive and reliable vehicle sales and import statistics available for Qatar, which has only a very small car industry, owing to its low population (1.6mn in 2009). However, some dealerships do release their sales figures, making it possible to get a partial handle on local vehicle demand and the overall direction of sales and imports.
Despite reasonably strong (oil and gas sector-led) real economic growth of just over 8% for Qatar’s economy during 2009,car sales had a relatively difficult year because of the bursting of a speculative bubble, which saw real estate prices crash. This had a significant effect on consumer demand (and access to bank credit) during the year, crimping sales of new vehicles. The signs are that 2010 will be a substantially better year than 2009. Our Macroeconomic team forecasts that overall GDP growth will nearly double this year, to just over 15% (despite a slowdown in the construction sector). Continued strong activity in the oil and gas sector (where prices are once again very buoyant), together with the stabilising effects of a substantial public injection of funds into the banking sector, help to explain the strong anticipated rate of overall economic growth.
A further boost to the economy – and car demand – has been provided by the central bank cutting its key overnight deposit rate by 50bps in early August 2010, which took this key rate down to 1.5% (the first change to the cost of borrowing for more than two years). This should provide a substantial boost to consumer demand – savers will be more inclined to spend (due to lower returns on deposit accounts), while car buyers relying on borrowing to fund (or part-fund) their purchases should be able to access cheaper credit.
This quarter, we introduce an analysis of Qatar’s truck market. Demand for trucks (particularly second hand trucks) was boosted by the colossal construction boom experienced by the Gulf state, but the end of that boom resulted in a glut of vehicles in this market. Going forward, while government investment in infrastructure will support the construction sector, this is unlikely to generate a quick knock-on recovery for the truck market, due to the extent of the earlier oversupply of vehicles, according to our analysis. Dana Motors was named McLaren’s official partner for the distribution of the latter’s first consumeroriented car, the MP4-12C, in August 2010. The McLaren brand and reputation is predicated on its success in Formula 1 racing. The MP4-12C will be available from mid-2011, tapping into a Qatari market that has a large preponderance of ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) consumers. Dana will run a full service centre in Qatar, with technicians receiving training at McLaren’s UK headquarters. The association with McLaren should boost Dana’s own brand value.


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