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Thematic Analysis
FDI Trends in APAC (2025)
Overall, the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region experienced significant growth in inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) for 2024. This growth was primarily focused on sectors such as renewables, communications/media, and electronics, with the United States, United Kingdom, and France identified as major investors. In 2025, increasing trade barriers and geopolitical tensions are altering the landscape of APAC FDI. While protectionist measures and security-driven screening are redirecting some investments, such as semiconductors from Taiwan, towards the United States, resilient markets like India and...
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Company Insights
Starbucks Corporation: Digital Transformation Strategies
Starbucks Corporation (Starbucks) is a specialty coffee retailer that roasts, markets, and sells premium coffee. The company purchases and roasts high-quality coffee and sells it through company-operated stores, offering handcrafted beverages, tea, and food. It also sells coffee and tea products and licenses its brands through licensed stores, grocery and foodservice channels (including the Global Coffee Alliance with Nestlé). In addition to the Starbucks Coffee brand, the company operates under Teavana, Ethos and Starbucks Reserve. Starbucks reports three segments: North...
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Company Insights
Restaurant Brands International: Digital Transformation Strategies
Restaurant Brands International Inc (RBI) is a quick-service restaurant (QSR) operator that owns, operates, and franchises restaurants under the Popeyes, Burger King, Tim Hortons, and Firehouse Subs brands. Popeyes features fried bone-in chicken, chicken sandwiches, tenders, wings, fried shrimp, and regional specialties. Burger King offers flame-grilled hamburgers, chicken, and other specialty sandwiches. Tim Hortons serves a variety of hot and cold specialty beverages and a full range of breakfast, lunch, and dinner items, including sandwiches, wraps, and flatbread pizzas. Firehouse...
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Company Insights
McDonald's Corporation: Digital Transformation Strategies
Report Value Proposition – Why This Matters for You Technology is transforming the quick-service restaurant industry, enabling brands to enhance customer experiences, optimize restaurant operations, strengthen digital ordering capabilities, and improve business performance across global markets. This report provides a comprehensive assessment of McDonald's enterprise technology strategy, covering its digital transformation initiatives, innovation programs, technology partnerships, product launches, and ICT priorities. It offers valuable insight into how McDonald's is leveraging technology to modernize restaurant operations, enhance customer engagement, and support...
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Consumer Insights
Ireland Foodservice Market Size and Trends by Profit and Cost Sector Channels, Players and Forecast to 2029
The Irish profit sector’s revenue reached EUR9.7 billion ($10.5 billion) in 2024, yielding a CAGR of 2.4% during 2019–24. Transactions and outlet count grew at a moderate CAGR of 0.6% each. QSR was the largest channel in 2024, accounting for 36.7% of the sector’s overall sales in 2024. It was followed by the pub, club & bar channel with a 15.9% share. The retail channel will post the highest CAGR of 4.4% over the forecast period. The foodservice profit sector...
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Consumer Insights
Portugal Foodservice Market Size and Trends by Profit and Cost Sector Channels, Players and Forecast to 2029
This report provides an in-depth evaluation of the Portugal foodservice market, including analysis of the key issues impacting on the industry. This report includes: - Consumer insight and analysis to provide a clear view of prevailing need states, trends and demands of consumers, including segmentation analysis and channel preference, all fully supported by comprehensive market data and occasions and locations analytics. - In-depth analysis of channel performance, both profit and cost sector, detailing the winning formats, with supporting analysis to...
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Case Studies
Emerging Out-of-Home Concepts: Hot Topics Case Study
This report is part of a case study series on trending topics in consumer goods, foodservice and packaging. It covers trending and emerging dining concepts out of home with regards to evolving meal occasions, menu formats, types of service, and outlet designs In light of sluggish sales in foodservice, operators a looking for new creative ways to increase customer footfall and engagement. Within menus, brands are diversifying familiar favorites, maximizing ingredients and minimizing waste, and offering greater customizability. Services and...
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Consumer Insights
Japan Foodservice Market Size and Trends by Profit and Cost Sector Channels, Players and Forecast to 2029
This report provides an in-depth evaluation of the Japanese foodservice market, including analysis of the key issues impacting on the industry. This report includes - - Consumer insight and analysis to provide a clear view of prevailing need states, trends and demands of consumers, including segmentation analysis and channel preference, all fully supported by comprehensive market data and occasions and locations analytics. - In-depth analysis of channel performance, both profit and cost sector, detailing the winning formats, with supporting analysis...
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Consumer Insights
South Africa Foodservice Market Size and Trends by Profit and Cost Sector Channels, Players and Forecast to 2028
This report provides an in-depth evaluation of the South African foodservice market, including analysis of the key issues impacting on the industry. This report includes: - Consumer insight and analysis to provide a clear view of prevailing need states, trends and demands of consumers, including segmentation analysis and channel preference, all fully supported by comprehensive market data and occasions and locations analytics. - In-depth analysis of channel performance, both profit and cost sector, detailing the winning formats, with supporting analysis...
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Company Insights
Compass Group plc: Digital Transformation Strategies
Compass Group Plc (Compass) is a food catering and support services group. The group, through its subsidiaries, provides contract catering services, office cleaning, reception services, light maintenance, security services, grounds and gardens services, and clinical equipment services. Compass also offers laundry and linen services, waste management, housekeeping, facilities management, and environmental services. It serves offices, schools, universities, hospitals, senior living communities, sports, and cultural venues, and offshore and remote sites. It operates under various brands including Eurest, Flik, Bon Appetit,...
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