Global Islamic Economy

Commodity talk: Cocoa Trade at popular Cocoa hub in ancient Osun state

Posted on December 17, 2019

This time, my journey took me exploring one of the commodity trade process in #Osun state. Osun is a poor ancient state known to be the birth origin of #Yoruba tribe, Wes...

Capturing the Next China Opportunity: Halal 2.0 Part 3

Posted on March 10, 2019

We have Islamic equity indexes by index providers, like DJ Indexes, S&P, MSCI, etc. (Full disclosure, I lead a team at DJ Indexes in 1999 to launch the world’s Islamic ...

Capturing the Next China Opportunity: Halal 2.0 Part 2

Posted on February 28, 2019

The 56 Muslim countries are generally a net importer of food, led by regions like the six climate challenged countries of the GCC (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qa...

Capturing the Next China Opportunity: Halal 2.0 Part 1

Posted on February 25, 2019

What are the characteristics of the next China consumerism opportunity? The opportunity consists of five main ingredients: First, it must be demand based: a must have. Se...

“Hike of Halal food industry”- a knight in shining armor

Posted on January 29, 2019

Did you know the Halal food industry is a full-fledged market by now? Halal food is the largest and divergent sector. According to the Global Islamic Economy Report 2018,...

“Is it Halal?” - Australian Halal market on the rise, with Muslim population exceeding 500,000

Posted on October 5, 2018

Have you noticed increased number of Halal produce requirements from your customers lately? It may come at a surprise that this sunny country accounts for the whopping...

The real M in Generation M: Muslim or Money?

Posted on September 26, 2018

You would agree that for a very long time, Islam and Muslims have been seen in one light. With no offence to anyone, media at large worldwide, has painted Islam and Musli...