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Corporate Profile

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About Us

IMES Research is both well-established & brand-new. Formerly part of IMES Consulting, the long-standing Middle East consultancy, IMES Research has long provided the industry standard for dairy & beverage information in the region. In October 2010 IMES Research was acquired from IMES Consulting & amalgamated into the ManSci Professional services group.

IMES Research is an industry market research & consultancy company specializing in dairy, beverage & related packaging markets in the Middle East & North Africa. We are widely used as a key input to companies' budget & planning cycles & provide valuable back-up in forming individual companies' marketing strategies. Managers use us in addition to retail audit rather than instead of - strategy vs tactics - & our forecasting is of particular interest. We provide data, but we also assist actively in strategic planning.

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In October 2010, Jeddah-based ManSci Group acquired the Continuous Research function from IMES Consulting and created IMES Research as a dedicated Dairy and Beverage industry market research entity. For the time being IMES Research operates as a division of ManSci’s corporate vehicle in the UAE.

Ownership: Structure & Management

Before After

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We provide two services - published analysis and forecasting, and customised data and consultancy solutions for our beverage, dairy, packaging and ancillary services customers.

Research Services

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We publish annual market research reports, separately for dairy and beverage consumption. These reports are structured in the same manner for all countries in order to make them directly comparable. They are aimed at a wide range of audience - from ingredients suppliers, machinery or packaging material vendors via the dairies and fillers themselves to multinationals who need to organise their resources across the region. Our reports are considered cost-effective to quickly gain knowledge about any given market.

Annual Publications

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Our data can also be worked over and presented in a client's own format.

Internal planning procedures often mean that stock presentations may need to be refreshed on an annual basis.

For various companies we already fill in their own data templates, making the lives of Knowledge and Insights Managers infinitely easier.

Derivatives of our consumption data can notably include production or filling data, but of course also stretch to producing ready-made Powerpoint slides.

Custom Research

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IMES Research takes pride in its comprehensive market coverage in the Middle East region. We carry out ground research in 18 countries. Consultants conduct trade interviews, store audits and scan the local market for data gathering, trend analysis and market sizing.

Markets: Geographic Coverage

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Feed-in data ranges from the detailed to the general, from the sharing of actual sales data by interviewees via discussion of individual companies' performance to discussions on general market development. All discussions we have with industry participants at any level, are then cross-checked with desk research results gathered by our team of analysts - any relevant published data, journal articles, press releases, company websites, import and export statistics, and governmental production statistics, academic papers are reviewed continuously.

Cross-checking information is the most important task our industry experts undertake. This will eliminate issues with agendas that may be pursued by interviewing partners, data transcription issues, data discrepancies or weaknesses in official statistics.

Explaining the data - this is our main focus. We provide market measurement, we provide market segmentation and shares, we provide trend analysis - but above all we provide an explanation on why a market has behaved the way it has behaved, and crucially, we provide market forecasts together with the necessary assumptions that have to be taken.

Through years of operating in a region that has proved to be fairly unpredictable, both on supply and demand levels, we have learnt how to provide forecasts with which our customers can agree with- and if they disagree with certain assumptions, various scenarios can be built.

Methodology

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Retail audit is the mode of research most companies in the dairy and beverage industry are familiar with - research among retail outlets and subsequent extrapolation to arrive at market sizing and trend analysis. Our approach is different from retail audit - we employ industry market research, from the top down. We conduct field interviews with all the stakeholders involved in the supply chain:

Local Producers Licensee brand owners Regional offices of multinational suppliers Importers Distributors Retailers Packaging suppliers Packaging machinery suppliers Raw material suppliers Finance houses Government departments

- all with a stake in regional dairy and beverage market performance.

Research Partners

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With an established regional presence spanning three decades, IMES Research boasts of a clientele ranging from multinational via regional to local. We are lucky to count many customers among our interviewing partners so our feed-in data is second to none, and many companies use our data as their planning standard.

Why IMES

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Clients Almarai (Saudi Arabia)

 Al Safi Danone (Saudi Arabia)

Nadec (Saudi Arabia)

Arcoma (Hochwald Saudi Arabia)

Al Othman (Saudi Arabia)

Tetra Pak

Pepsi Beverages

Coca-Cola

Lebanese Beverage and Dairy Industries

Aujan Industries

Al Rabie Saudi Foods

National Food Industries Co/Hayel Saeed

Fonterra

 Taanayel Les Fermes/RJW Foods

Orangina Schweppes

Al Rihana (Syria)

Al Naseem (Libya)

SIG Combibloc

Saudi Industrial Development Food

Bord Bia

Tiger Global Management

Friesland Campina

KPMG

AMS Baeshen (Saudi Arabia)

Ball Packaging

Crown Beverage Can

Rexam Beverage Can

Gulf & Safa Dairy (UAE)

Dandy Co (Qatar)

Arla Foods

Nestle

Nestle Waters

International Dairy & Juice (Pepsi/Almarai JV)

Pinar

Lactalis

Fromageries Bel

Liban Lait

Kuwaiti Danish Dairy Co (Kuwait)

Al Al Ain Dairy (UAE)

Al Bunnia (Iraq)

Sadafco (Saudi Arabia)

Anabtawi Group (Palestine/Jordan)

Hijazi Investment (Jordan)

Arrow Foods (Saudi Arabia)

Juhayna (Egypt)

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Reach Us

Tel: +971 4 457 9185

Fax: +971 4 457 9186

Address:Jumeirah Business Centre 1, Cluster G Office 2308/9, Jumeirah Lakes Towers PO Box 334212, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 

Email: marketing@imesresearch.com

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