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US QUOTA CALL
BY PHILIP FINE
AMERICAN organisations representing retailers and apparel importers have released a study claiming that the impending January 2005 demise of the country’s clothing import quotas was a "well founded" proposition. The report was commissioned by the US Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel, the American Apparel & Footwear Association, the American Import Shippers Association, the National Retail Federation and the International Mass Retail Association.…
GAP - GREENHOUSE GASES
BY PHILIP FINE
GAP Inc has joined a group of American corporations that have pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The clothing retailer, which also owns the Banana Republic and Old Navy brands, last month signed on to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Climate Leaders’, a group that now numbers 54.…
CALIFORNIA WINE
BY PHILIP FINE
NAT DiBuduo is finally getting calls from buyers after four years as president of Allied Grape Growers, a California grape marketing cooperative. Those calls, along with a few other factors, are providing signs that the slump California’s wine industry has been experiencing in the last three years is coming to an end.…
HOLIDAY BOOK SALES - CANADA
BY PHILIP FINE, in Montreal, Canada
An extra day in this year’s Christmas week seemed to be the key to helping
Canadian book sales make a strong showing in a season marked by healthy
non-fiction sales. Paul McNally, owner of the four-store prairie chain,
McNally Robinson, says that Christmas falling on a Thursday was the key to
a 35 per cent jump in sales from last year.…
AIRPORT PARKING
BY PHILIP FINE
AN AMERICAN company is offering reserved parking spots within five minutes of airports. Airport Parking Reservations, which offers 24-hour service and a shuttle to the terminal, is now operating outside more than 130 airports in the US, UK and Canada.…
AIRPORTS COUNCIL HEAD
BY PHILIP FINE
PATRICK Graham has been elected chairman of the 2004 Board of Directors of Airports Council International-North America (ACI-NA). Graham, who will oversee a 22-member board, is executive director of the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport.
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KEEPING SHOES ON
BY PHILIP FINE
FEWER air travellers will have to take off their shoes for US airport security screeners. Those who set off metal detectors will now be given a second chance, after they have removed the coins or keys they think caused the alarm.…
HAZARDOUS MATERIAL
BY PHILIP FINE
HEAVYWEIGHT cargo specialists, Emery Worldwide Airlines, has been sentenced for violating America’s Hazardous Material Transportation Act. The company admitted that on 12 occasions it failed to provide proper notice to its pilots that they were transporting dangerous goods, including nuclear material.…
AIRPORT FOOD
BY PHILIP FINE
WANT to find a healthy US airport meal? Fly through Denver. That city’s airport has been voted tops for providing healthy meals by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which surveyed 15 US airports. San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, Miami took the next four spots.…
BINGE DRINKING
Keith Nuthall
BINGE drinking is on the increase amongst young people in the existing European Union (EU), the European Economic Area and countries that becoming members in May, according to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). The EU agency noted from the latest available comparative figures that the proportion of 15-16-year-olds indulging in binge drinking (consuming five or more drinks in a row) rose from 47 to 57 per cent in Ireland during the late 1990s and from 37 to 50 per cent in Norway.…