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Pakistan Food and Drink Report Q2 2008Published by: Business Monitor International Published: May. 1, 2008 - 60 Pages Table of Contents
AbstractPakistan continues to represent a very high risk investment opportunity for food and beveragemanufacturers within the Asia Pacific region. The market once again places last in BMI’s Asia PacificFood & Drink Business Environment Ratings, which assess a market’s investment potential incomparison to its regional peers; its rating primarily being due to low existing consumption levels and thehigh economic and political risks facing investors looking to drive up these consumption levels.However, as BMI’s newly-published Q208 Pakistan Food & Drink Report discusses in more depth, thecountry does offer a glimmer of opportunity to confident and non-risk-adverse investors. Healthyeconomic growth, which is intrinsically linked to demand for non-essential food and beverage items, isone such opportunity. To 2012, BMI is forecasting average annual GDP growth of 6.7%. Coupled withhealthy population growth - BMI expects a population increase of 10.9% to 173.9mn in 2012 - and rapidurbanisation - the urban population is expected to account for 49.8% of the population in 2030, up from34.8% in 2005 - Pakistan provides a steadily emerging audience for food and drink manufacturers.Keen to unsure that the benefits of emerging consumerism are felt beyond urban centres, the governmenthas proved keen to attract international investment in key food processing and agricultural sub-sectors,the dairy industry perhaps having been the primary beneficiary of these efforts to date. The first fewmonths of 2008 have seen a flurry of activity in the dairy sector. In February, the Pakistan DairyDevelopment Council, a public-private partnership (PPP), announced plans to accelerate its model dairyfarm development initiative with the aim of boosting both dairy output and quality. Other such measuresbeing explored to ensure that Pakistan’s contribution to global dairy exports matches its contribution toglobal dairy production include greater investment training and the establishment of more PPPs. Thanks to the involvement of Swiss dairy giant Nestlé, development of Pakistan’s dairy sector has beenswift and efficient by typical local standards. The State Bank of Pakistan expects fresh milk production toincrease by 15.9% to 2010, although consumption growth will outstrip this at 17.4% to 2012, as slightlymore affluent consumers continue to demand dairy products more regularly. Pakistan’s government now faces the challenge of attracting investment in other key agricultural subsectors.While its dairy forays certainly provide a useful template for how this should be achieved, there isone notable difference between this and other agricultural sub-sectors. Dairy lends itself well to thetransition from commodity producer to added-value manufacturer, more so than other agriculturalcommodities do. Pakistan’s considerable investment risks - among them perceived bureaucracy, poorinfrastructure, vulnerability to external shocks and low per capita GDP - may well prove more off-puttingwhen it comes to less immediately profitable sub-sectors. Get Full Details About This Report >> |
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