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Market volatility, rising competition, and more demanding customers are making it more difficult for companies to achieve profitable growth across geographies. To ensure strong business performance, more and more executive teams are pressure-testing and revising their strategies, and ultimately making…
Sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA’s) growth will accelerate moderately in 2019 compared to 2018 (at 3.5% YOY GDP growth versus 3.0% expected for 2018). Individual country performance will diverge greatly, however, with South Africa potentially being a major drag on growth and…
As economic growth across global markets improves, a lot of executives at Western multinationals (MNCs) are facing pressure to achieve both profitability and growth. Sub-Saharan Africa has long been perceived as the engine to deliver growth in the short-term and…
Last Wednesday, we hosted 20 multinational executives in Johannesburg to discuss Sub-Saharan Africa’s outlook in 2018. Senior executives from the technology, consumer goods, industrials, and healthcare sectors gathered to share ideas for strategies to succeed in the continent in the…
South Africa forms a core part of MNCs’ emerging EMEA portfolios, a group that includes other major emerging markets such as Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. Many of these markets face several years of slower growth due to a combination of…
For most of the past decade, markets in the Middle East, and especially the GCC, were perceived as attractive profit drivers for many Western multinationals, while markets in Sub-Saharan Africa promised strong growth potential. However, today the region is exposed…
In theory, Nigeria has many attributes that could transform the country into one of Africa’s most exciting success stories. A large population, a well-educated and highly entrepreneurial workforce, improving democratic fundamentals, and a generally diversified economy (at least on paper).…