“Halal snack pack” has been named People’s Choice Word of the Year 2016 by Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary. A snack pack, also known as an HSP, is a hearty pile of kebab meat, chips and sauce which has become a staple of Australian takeaway shops. It’s perhaps an unlikely platform for political debate, but this year…
Home to one of the world’s busiest ports, the Netherlands is the gateway to Europe. As such, it seems the perfect entry point for halal products to find their way to the continent’s millions of Muslims. However, halal storage and logistics in the port of Rotterdam remain limited. Halal or not halal? In 2007, numerous Dutch…
A new Euromonitor report forecasts that Muslim consumers will make up more than a quarter of the world’s population by 2030, and China wants to play an active role in feeding them. Chinese companies are increasingly flexing their muscles in the burgeoning market for halal food - one a report last year commissioned by the…
Sustained migration flows from majority-Muslim countries to Western Europe, combined with the favorable demographic dynamics of Muslim populations in Europe, will create strong demand for halal goods and services, which are growing from a low base in the region. Food will remain the most developed segment, but other segments such as Islamic clothing and financial…
Online food delivery company Just Eat has agreed to buy rivals hungryhouse in Britain and SkipTheDishes in Canada, spending more than $300 million to strengthen its leading position in both markets. The London-listed company said it would pay an initial 200 million pounds ($251 million) to buy hungryhouse from Delivery Hero, a Berlin-based company backed…
The global ingredients industry was estimated at $245 billion in 2015 across food and beverage, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics products. The industry is highly sophisticated, with the leading players predominantly located in non-OIC countries, and there is a substantial range of ingredients that are sourced either from animals or that contain alcohol content. The use of…
Europe is a very important and valuable market for the producers of halal products, with more than 50 million Muslims. Partly because of the high purchasing power of the European Muslim community, the European halal industry has an estimated worth of almost 70 billion dollars. The Netherlands is the ideal place to bring together entrepreneurs…
The 2016 State of the Global Islamic Economy Report revisits the Halal Media and Recreation Indicator to evaluate countries’ health and development of their family-friendly/Islamic media and recreation ecosystem. This indicator is part of the aggregate Global Islamic Economy (GIE) indicator. The indicator does not focus on the overall size and growth trajectory of a…
The 2016 State of the Global Islamic Economy Report revisits the Halal Media and Recreation Indicator to evaluate countries’ health and development of their family-friendly/Islamic media and recreation ecosystem. This indicator is part of the aggregate Global Islamic Economy (GIE) indicator. The indicator does not focus on the overall size and growth trajectory of a…
On many occasions, Malaysian Muslim consumers have been called to boycott certain popular household food products. Reasons for the boycott may be caused by either non-halal ingredients used in the food products or that the products are made by countries which support the oppression of fellow Muslims worldwide. Such a reaction has become typical for…
