Growth rates will be more than twice as fast in developing markets.
But officials at Facebook, Twitter and Google are anxiously watching the developments as a test case for how to do business in fast-growing, developing markets like India.
The newly renamed SABMiller quickly added brands in fast-growing developing markets and more mature, cash-rich regions.
MetLife said it was acquiring AFP Provida in a bid to expand into fast-growing developing markets.
Jan du Plessis, SABMiller's chairman, said: "SAB has an unmatched footprint in fast-growing developing markets, underpinned by our portfolio of iconic national and global brands.
The company said the snacks business would focus on "fast-growing developing markets and in instant consumption channels," while the North American business would continue to develop the brands distributed through more traditional grocers.
Nissan has said it would use some factory floor space — available because of the end of the old Lada production — to reintroduce its Datsun brand, last seen in the 1980s but being revived as a bargain car for fast-growing developing markets where people are entering the middle class.
Random House is the leading English language publisher in the US and the UK, while Penguin is the world's most famous publishing brand and has a strong presence in fast-growing developing markets.
But in the Rest Of World region that includes its fast-growing developing markets like India and Brazil, it only makes $0.63 per user while it earns $4.32 ARPU per year in the US & Canada region.
Expect Snap to optimize its engineering to make messages quicker to send and receive, and even sacrifice some of its bells and whistles to make chat faster in developing markets.
Brazil, being the B of the BRIC group of large and fast-growing developing markets, is seen as having more potential or at least as being the base for the larger region, even if the returns have yet to bear that out.
