by Ekrem Duman | Jul 26, 2026 | Qatar Company Stories, Qatar Retail, Food & Consumer
⚡ TL;DRGulf malls are not shopping centres, they are climate-controlled public space, which is why the region has some of the highest mall density per capita in the world and why the format has proved more resilient than in Western markets. E-commerce is growing...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 26, 2026 | Qatar Company Stories, Qatar Retail, Food & Consumer
⚡ TL;DRQatar has one of the highest incomes per capita in the world and a consumer market that behaves nothing like that figure suggests. The population is roughly ninety percent expatriate, income distribution is extremely wide, a substantial share of earnings...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 26, 2026 | Qatar Company Stories, Qatar Retail, Food & Consumer
⚡ TL;DRQatar imports the overwhelming majority of its food, has almost no arable land, and depends on desalination for water. Its food security strategy therefore runs on four tracks simultaneously: domestic production in perishable categories, strategic...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 26, 2026 | Qatar Company Stories, Qatar Retail, Food & Consumer
⚡ TL;DRQatar’s grocery market is split between a state-linked national chain with community-format stores, international hypermarket operators run by regional franchisees, and value formats serving the large migrant workforce. The market is unusually...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 26, 2026 | Qatar Company Stories, Qatar Retail, Food & Consumer
⚡ TL;DRWhen Qatar lost its land border in 2017, fresh milk stopped arriving. Within weeks thousands of dairy cows were flown in by air freight, and within about a year the country produced enough fresh milk for its own market. Baladna went from a small farming...
