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Trendtype supports experienced commercial teams across Africa and Middle East through expert market intelligence, strategic insight, and deep local expertise.
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Pan-African Forecourt Retailer
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Multinational dairy company
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Build a successful growth strategy - for commercial teams focused on identifying new opportunities, right to win, growth hotspots, best fit distributors and the right route-to-market strategy to unlock growth in expansion markets.
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Ferrero
For a business with brands across several confectionery categories, understanding how retail channels, distributors and competing products differ between African markets requires a consistent source of local intelligence.

DP World
DP World, one of the world's largest port and supply chain operators with a significant footprint across Africa, was exploring entry into new distribution categories. While its teams brought deep trade and field experience to the business, DP World needed to rapidly accelerate its channel and category knowledge to make confident commercial decisions in new territory and to do so quickly.

Danone
Danone, a leading global dairy company with a significant presence across Africa, was exploring future growth pathways to shape new product development across Sub-Saharan Africa. With refrigeration access still limited across much of the continent yet consumer demand for dairy remaining strong, Danone needed clarity on where the real opportunity lay, which markets were most attractive, and how to position its portfolio to win across each of them.

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Reports
We publish detailed reports on product category trends and innovation, market sizing, retail trends and route to market, pharmacy and forecourt retail, foodservice and street food, in-depth city and country profiles as well as strategic issues such as access to FX and the impact of current events on trade.
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