With a population of more than 80m people and strong levels of household spending in the upper two quintiles of the income spectrum, Egypt has a vast consumer market. Given its wide range of competitive industries – including fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), financial services and telecoms – provided by both multinational and established local brands, the country’s...
With a population of nearly 88m, Egypt’s media industry serves the largest domestic market in MENA. And from its central base in the region, the industry is able to extend far beyond the country’s borders to tap into a broader base of more than 300m readers, viewers and listeners across the Arabic-speaking world with its books, magazines, films, radio and television...
A major employer and contributor to GDP and export earnings, Egypt’s agriculture sector thrives despite limitations imposed by geography. The country has been one of the breadbaskets of a range of great empires, and the fertile Nile Delta is one of the region’s most important agricultural areas. As demand rises from Egypt’s growing population, the country – the world’s single...
Egypt’s single biggest desert agricultural development is the New Valley Project, better known as Toshka ( strictly speaking one of New Valley’s constituent parts), which lies close to the Sudanese border to the west of the Nile, deep in Upper Egypt. Toshka, intended to be a “second Nile Valley”, covers some 200,000 acres (81,000 ha) and is irrigated by a combination of ground...
One of the world’s main producers of oranges, Egypt is also the second-biggest exporter of the fruit. Oranges account for 30% of fruit production and 65% of citrus production, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS).
The Beatles hit song about getting by “with a little help from my friends” could well become a theme tune for kick-starting the recovery of Egypt’s tourism sector after more than three years of battering. By 2012 the Ministry of Tourism (MoT) was already appealing to Arabs in the Gulf region to spend their vacations in Egypt to help compensate for the disappearing...
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