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GCC market research & business intelligence — since 2010

Credible market estimates with localized insights

Built from the ground up — store-level fieldwork across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman, aggregated until your market has a number you can defend.

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15+ Years6 Markets3 Offices5,000+ Projects73 Field notes7 Practices

Clients

Who we count for

Trusted across GCC retail, F&B, real estate, banking & government

  • Ajial Real Estate & Entertainment Company
  • Al Bustan Al Khaleeji General Trading and Contracting Company
  • Al Hasawi Industrial Group
  • Ali Abdulwahab Al Mutawa Commercial Company
  • Alrawdatain Water Bottling Company
  • Al Sayer Group Holding Company
  • Ben's Cookies Restaurant Company
  • City Group Company
  • Danish Bakery Company
  • Entrepreneur Restaurant Management Company
  • Floward International General Trading Company
  • Gastronomica General Trading Company
  • Gulf Engineer's Consultants
  • Independent Catering Company
  • Injazzat Real Estate Development Company
  • International Mill Company
  • Kuwait Animal Feeds Factory Company
  • Kuwait Hotels Company
  • MMC Catering Company
  • Mobile Telecommunications Company
  • Mohamed Abdul Rahman Al Bahar Shipping Company
  • Mubkhar General Trading Company
  • Napkin Affair General Trading Company
  • One PM for Managing Restaurant Services Company
  • Suffix General Trading & Contracting
  • Tabco International Food Catering Company
  • Tamdeen Group Holding
  • Trolley General Trading Company
  • United Real Estate Company
  • West Village General Trading Company
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Two universes, one field-built database

Every estimate is built from primary field data upward — we aggregate from the ground, never the other way around.

What we build

Seven practices, one data engine

Intelligence & data
02Geo-spatial intelligence: area & site analysisArea analysis narrows the market to the right trade areas; site analysis ranks the addresses within them. Both are grounded in field-collected real estate and demographic data across Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the GCC.04Economic concentration reportsRegulator-aligned economic concentration reports for mergers, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships across the GCC — built on locally sourced, continuously updated datasets.06Data cleaningData cleaning services built on years of rigorous GCC research — transforming raw, inconsistent Arabic and English data into clean, actionable intelligence through a four-step process.
Advisory
01Consultancy servicesFive consultancy practices — market research & business intelligence, geo-spatial intelligence, real estate services, economic concentration reports, and RFP development & vendor selection — built on bottom-up field data collected across the GCC since 2010.03Real estate servicesGap analysis, tenant mix planning, and leasing strategy for developers and brands — matching the right tenants with the right space to generate sustainable value.05RFP development & vendor selectionWe engineer TOR/RFPs that align project ambition with real market capability, drive comparable proposals, and enable defensible, evidence-based supplier selection across the GCC.
Ongoing
07Retainer & Managed ServicesFlexible retainer-based advisory plus five real estate managed services — from broker coordination to lease signing — so our team operates as an extension of yours across the GCC.Need it continuously?That's Umbrella — the same pipeline, productized. See the platform below.

Sector lenses

Counted by sector

Lens · FS

Foodservice & F&B

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Retail & FMCG

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Hospitality & Hotels

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Real Estate & Development

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Field proof

Case files, not name-drops

Anonymized by policy. Who they are stays confidential; what we counted for them doesn't.

File · SA-01RETAIL

Retail site evaluation across the Riyadh Metro network

An international convenience-retail operator engaged Global Markets to evaluate a bundle of candidate retail locations across the Riyadh Metro network ahead of a competitive bid.

File · GCC-02QSR

Five-market expansion feasibility for a quick-service restaurant group

A regional quick-service restaurant group engaged Global Markets for feasibility work across Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, Qatar and Bahrain.

File · GCC-03HOSPITALITY

Cross-border mystery shopping for a leading GCC hospitality group

A leading GCC hospitality group used Global Markets mystery-shopping fieldwork across Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman to measure service consistency.

Umbrella — the platform

The same pipeline, always on.

Umbrella productizes the field engine — the store-level data behind our studies, continuously refreshed and delivered as a platform your team logs into.

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Field notes

Latest from the ground

September 22, 2025Saudi National Day 95NewsSeptember 10, 2025Kuwait’s Grab and Go Market Shows Resilience Amid Summer SlowdownIndustry ReportsAugust 26, 2025Holiday Boom Accelerates Kuwait’s Family Entertainment MarketIndustry Reports
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