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MOLSON PURCHASE
BY MONICA DOBIE
MOLSON Canada has announced it has acquired Ontario microbrewery Creemore Springs Brewery Ltd. Established in 1987, the brewery in Creemore, Ontario, 120 kilometres northwest of Toronto, employs 50 people and produces Creemore Springs premium lager. “Creemore is rounding up Molson’s brand portfolio and will strongly position us in the domestic super-premium segment, becoming an engine for growth…,”
said an ebullient Kevin Boyce, President and CEO, Molson Canada.…
RUSSIA WTO DEAL
Keith Nuthall
RUSSIA has secured the future right to export its vodka and other drinks products to key European Union (EU) export markets at import duty rates charged on cargoes from World Trade Organisation (WTO) member countries. Moscow has struck deals on future trade relations with 29 WTO members, including the EU, also setting future tariff levels that Russia will charge on all imported goods.…
SOUTH AFRICA LABELLING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DEADLINE is approaching for making comments on a draft South Africa law mandating health warnings on packaging and advertising for alcoholic drinks sold in the country. Businesses, non-governmental organisations and foreign governments have until May 11 to comment on a law insisting warnings appear on all labels for drinks with an abv of 1% or more from next February 11.…
STUDENT DRINKING ESTIMATES
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE STUDENT drinks market in the United States could be more lucrative than official statistics have suggested. A study in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research concludes college students underestimate volumes when asked how many drinks they consume, because the measures they pour are larger than standard amounts.…
FDA ESTER DECISION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of glycerol ester of gum rosin to adjust the density of citrus oils used in manufacturing beverages. The FDA, said a memorandum released by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has also ordered that the additive’s concentration may not exceed 100 ppm (parts per million).…
ALBANIA SOLAR POWER
KEITH NUTHALL
REMOTE border posts in Albania are an unlikely location for cutting edge alternative power, but that is the location for an Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) solar energy project. It wants posts in the mountainous northern Shkodra region equipped with solar panels serving as back-up electricity generators to deal with common power cuts.…
DIMAS - KYOTO/USA
KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas has thrown in the towel over persuading the USA to sign the Kyoto Protocol. However, the Greek has committed himself to involving Washington in negotiations to create an anti-global warming agreement that takes the world beyond the Kyoto deadline of 2012.…
BULGARIA CONSERVATION
KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank has launched an energy conservation fund for Bulgaria, that is expected to spend US$200 on taming the country’s notoriously profligate electricity consumers over 15 years. The bank is initially injecting US$10 million into this Bulgaria Energy Efficiency Fund it thinks will create so much spare energy, the country will be prosper from the leftovers.…
POLAND EMISSIONS
KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has conditionally approved the greenhouse gas pollution allocation plan of Poland and the Czech Republic, leaving the European Union (EU) just two countries shy of approving all national components of its emissions trading scheme. Now only Greece and Italy await approval.…
GREENWICH REACTOR CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has thrown out an attempt by the European Commission to force Britain to hand over information about its shutting-down the ‘Jason’ training reactor, at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London. It was a surprise ruling, because judges opposed the views of an ECJ advocate general, who had recommended that the UK was breaking its European Union (EU) treaty commitments; usually they confirm the advice of these officials.…