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PMI PUSHES AHEAD TO SEIZE GROUND IN SOUTH AFRICA’S GROWING VAPING MARKET
South Africa’s electronic vaping product (EVP) market is growing fast – at 5% a year, according to management consultant Canback Consulting, and already estimated to be worth South African Rand ZAR1.16 billion (EUR82.8 million/USD68.2 billion). To target such growth, Philip Morris South Africa (PMSA) opened its first standalone IQOS store last August (2019), selling its smoke-free devices and associated product in the upmarket Johannesburg neighbourhood of Sandton, adding to the 11 kiosks in malls it was already operating in the provinces of Gauteng, Western Cape and Kwazulu-Natal.…
ECOMMERCE TOBACCO AND VAPE DELIVERIES INCREASE – BUT IS THERE AN ENVIRONMENTAL COST
Ecommerce is becoming an increasingly popular way to order tobacco-related products, especially e-cigarettes and vapes, but are such single-item shipments contributing to more carbon emissions and packaging waste than buying in-store or kiosk? E-commerce accounts for an increasingly large slice of the global retail market, growing 28% in 2017, 22.9% in 2018 and by 20.7% in 2019, to USD3.535 trillion, and forecast to reach USD4.2 trillion in 2020, according to eMarketer’s Global Ecommerce Forecast 2019.…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION RELEASES BLUEPRINT FOR FUTURE EU-UK ENERGY RELATIONS
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released a blueprint for negotiations on agreeing a permanent relationship between the European Union (EU) and the UK, which would forge energy relations that are as close as possible, given Britain is to quit the single European energy market.…
ZAMBIAN GOVERNMENT IN BIND – HAVING TO STEER BETWEEN FCTC AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICIES THAT INVOLVE TOBACCO PRODUCTION AND MANUFACTURE
ZAMBIA’S government is caught between enforcing World Health Organisation (WHO)-sponsored tobacco control regulations and pushing an economic strategy which touts tobacco leaf as a key component of its goal to transform the Zambian economy to upper middle-income status by 2030. Zambia signed and ratified the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in 2008 and has since been working to implement its provisions, although progress has been slow.…
COVID-91 HALTS EFFORTS BY SOUTH SUDAN HIGHER EDUCATION SECTOR TO REBUILD AFTER PEACE AGREEMENT ENDED CIVIL WAR
The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted efforts by South Sudan tertiary education leaders and ministers within the newly formed South Sudan unity government to restore the country’s universities, many of which were devastated by the years of civil war that may now have ended.…
ANITEC HOPEFUL ABOUT NICRAGUA’S CLOTHING AND TEXTILE SECTOR 2020
The Nicaragua Textile and Clothing Industry Association (Anitec) has said that it hopes the country’s apparel export performance in 2020 will hold its ground, despite the anticipated softening in growth within the global economy this year and continuing political strife within the country.…
ETHIOPIA’S TEXTILE AND CLOTHING SECTOR MUST GET SMARTER WITH INVESTMENT TO THRIVE IN THE LONG TERM SAYS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION
ETHIOPIA’S clothing and textile sector needs to invest in creating a reliable quality domestic supply chain to grow and meet government targets for expanding export sales, a senior official at the Ethiopian Textile and Garment Association (ETGAMA) has told just-style.
Sintayehu Teshome, a textile and garment engineer working for this organisation representing more than 120 medium and large companies said that despite government incentives such as the construction of industrial parks and generous investment lease policies, as well as Ethiopia’s low labour costs, the sector still has many challenges to overcome to fulfill its potential.…
TUNISIAN GARMENT SECTOR WARNS OF MAJOR COMMERCIAL DAMAGE BECAUSE OF COVID19 PRODUCTION STOPPAGE.
The vice president of the Tunisian Textile and Garment Federation (FTTH) has warned that this important north African outsourcing hub faces harmful disruption from the Covid-19 crisis, despite the proactivity of the Tunisian government. It and the Central Bank of Tunisia have announced emergency measures to support businesses, such as cutting interest rates, delaying the date of tax payments and supporting banks who lend with delayed repayments.…
CECPA AGREEMENT COULD OPEN INDIAN TEXTILE AND CLOTHING MARKET TO MAURITIAN MANUFACTURERS
THE CLOTHING and textile industry and government officials within the Indian Ocean archipelago nation of Mauritius, say they are hopeful that a trade deal will be struck with India this year and that it will help build sales and capacity in this important African outsourcing hub.…
ROMANIA’S CLOTHING MANUFACTURING SECTOR FACES TOUGH RECRUITING CHALLENGES TO FORGE A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
ROMANIA’S clothing and textile industry is facing a recruitment crunch and experts worry that it will struggle to find a strategy to ensure it can hire sustainably to ensure long-term growth. A survey from PwC’s HR benchmarking project Saratoga released last October (2019) concluded that Romania faces an “acute shortage of workforce”, needing about one million extra workers to sustain a 3.5% economic growth by 2023.…