EGYPT PAINT INDUSTRY FEATURE
October 1st, 2005
BY PAUL COCHRANETHE EGYPTIAN paint industry is in a state of flux after the sector was deregulated, with competition increasing both domestically and internationally, and long-term projections hampered by the government's inability to decide on whether or not to cease subsidising turpentine supplies.Although pinning down accurate figures for Egypt's notoriously untransparent business sector is about as easy as finding a needle in a haystack, it is widely agreed that the sector is growing, estimated at 10% this year.Prior to the liberalisation of the country's ...
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