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JAPANESE CONFECTIONERY INDUSTRY ROBUST IN RECESSION
BY JULIAN RYALL
THEY may be putting off the new car purchase and the long-haul holiday this year, but Japanese consumers are finding that they cannot do without all their little luxuries.
For the 25th consecutive month, confectionery sales increased in Japan in January.…
SOUTH KOREA'S ORION PLANS CONFECTIONERY FACTORY IN RUSSIA
BY MONICA DOBIE
SOUTH Korean confectionery producer Orion Corporation is planning to construct a factory in the Russian city of Tver, northwest of Moscow. This follows the signing of a US$95.2 million agreement with the regional government, said a spokesman for the local governor’s office.…
NEW INTERNATIONAL MOUNT FUJI SHIZUOKA AIRPORT OPENS THIS JUNE
BY KARRYN MILLER
JAPAN’S 98th airport, Mt Fuji Shizuoka Airport, is set to open on June 4, 2009: despite the launch being delayed twice. The initial March opening was moved back because the owner of 150 nearby trees refused to chop them down or even shorten them.…
KANSAI INTERNATIONAL STILL STRUGGLES TO ACHIEVE ITS TRAFFIC GOALS
BY GAVIN BLAIR
ONE of 10 recipients of the ‘Monument of the Millennium’ awards by the American Society of Civil Engineers, Kansai International Airport (KIX) has also been referred to as, ‘one of the world’s most attractive white elephants’. An undeniable triumph of human ingenuity, the sheer scale and ambitiousness of its construction, combined with ineffective central planning, continue to provide its greatest challenges.…
TURKEY TOBACCO SECTOR IS MONEY PIT, DESPITE GROWING HEALTH AND MARKETING CONTROLS
BY PAUL COCHRANE
TURKEY’S tobacco market, the eighth largest in the world and valued this month at GBPounds 6 billion in consumer price turnover by British American Tobacco (BAT) has contracted by 5% over the past year following the imposition of a nationwide smoking ban.…
INTERNATIONAL POWER EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS RACE TO SUPPLY BOOMING INDIAN GENERATION MARKET
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA
AN ADDITIONAL power generation capacity of 78,000 MW with an emphasis on hydro and low-carbon power generators such as solar and wind energy, with an investment of US$250 billion: this is what India aims to achieve by 2012 to narrow down the huge demand and supply gap that has lead to chronic power shortages in a rapidly growing economy.…
THE GLOBAL BATTLE TO SUPPLY HYBRID AND ELECTRIC CAR BATTERIES GATHERS STEAM
BY ANDREW CAVE and KARRYN MILLER
FACING a looming energy crisis, the battle to produce lithium ion batteries to power hybrid and battery cars is heating up. Germany’s Robert Bosch and Samsung of South Korea recently formed a joint venture SB LiMotive Co to compete with the likes of BorgWarner, Johnson Controls, TRW and Continental.…
EU MINISTERS APPROVE RETENTION OF EU POLYESTER FIBRE ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has swiftly approved the re-establishment of anti-dumping duties on imports of polyester staple fibres from Belarus, China, Saudi Arabia and South Korea. Ministers agreed with the European Commission that lifting them would lead to further dumping of this yarn on EU markets.…
CULTURALLY DIVERSE SOUTH EAST ASIA OFFERS MARKETING CHALLENGES FOR COSMETICS COMPANIES
BY WILLIAM BARNES
A WOMAN brushes past palm fronds into the pastel lights of a busy Bangkok salon. At the counter she turns what looks to be a flawless, ivory face towards a woman in a vaguely medical uniform: "Aiyee! I am getting so old.…
BRUSSELS WANTS EU POLYESTER FIBRE ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES RETAINED
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed re-erecting anti-dumping duties on imports of polyester staple fibres from Belarus, China, Saudi Arabia and South Korea after concluding that lifting them would lead to further dumping of this yarn on European Union (EU) markets.…