Year Of The Dog Business Forecast

[george]

Year of the Dog business forecast

BANGKOK: -- Kasikorn Bank released its findings titled, “50 Businesses in the Year of the Dog: A Challenging Year for Business".

The local bank’s research centre looked at the direction of 50 local business types based on three groupings: those with promising growth, those with stable direction and those that should be monitored carefully.

Four key criteria used for the predictions included production, marketing (sales), development and obstacles facing business.

Businesses with promising growth include: rubber, auto and auto parts, animal feed, herbs and spices, dairy products, petrochemical, cement, private hospitals, construction, luxury spa, canned and processed seafood, soy milk, fruit/vegetable juice, Internet.

Businesses with stable platforms include: shrimp and related products, tapioca, rice, jewellery, paper pulp, instant noodle, upper-end hotel, computer and electronic parts, garment, kitchenware’s, home decoration, home building, retail trade, steel and related products, mobile phones, plastic products, condominiums, housing estates, advertising, petrol stations, rubber products, furniture, ceramics, golf courses, alcohol and electric appliances.

Businesses that should be monitored carefully include: sugar and sugarcane, leather products, processed chicken and toys.

--Bangkok Post 2006-01-31

[astral]

Not exactly what I would call an earth shattering report

Year of the Dog business forecast

Businesses that should be monitored carefully include: sugar and sugarcane, leather products, processed chicken and toys.

I wonder why they put processed chicken on the dodgy list...

[Ricardo]

No no no - in the 'Year of the Dog' , it is surely inevitable that the markets will go through the 'woof' !