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BEEF INNOVATION
BY PHILIP FINE
A NEW "R & D Ranch" has introduced 1,100 new value-added beef products to the US market from 1999 to 2001, according to America’s National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, which set it up. Experts working for this body (formal name: New Product Development Team) help create new products that will drive demand for beef.…
SUGARLAND CLOSURE
BY PHILIP FINE
THE SUGAR refinery that gave a sweet name to a Houston suburb has been closed. Imperial Sugar has shut its Sugar Land, Texas, plant, blaming a US market glut and a poor geographical position. The company’s Georgia and Louisiana plants, closer to cane crops, will handle current needs.…
UKRAINE ENERGY DRINK
BY PHILIP FINE
COCA-COLA is continuing the global rollout of its energy drink Burn, introducing the product in Ukraine. The drink has been targeted to clubbers, athletes and even dozy workers but the main distribution point in Ukraine is the local discos.…
HUNGARY BUDVAR
BY PHILIP FINE
CZECH brewer Budejovicky Budvar can call its beer ‘Budweiser’ in Hungary but it cannot call it ‘Bud’. That was the message given to the Czechs by the Hungarian Patent Office in the latest chapter in a battle between the state-owned brewery and American brewer Anheuser-Busch.…
US INSURANCE
BY PHILIP FINE
Skyrocketing claims and a proposed new bill trying to make its way to the
US senate have put the issue of mould on the minds of American insurance
companies.
Several high-dollar claims have been going through
the US courts.…
IMO SECURITY CODE
BY PHILIP FINE
CONCERNS that an agreed maritime security code from the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) could promote claims, on the basis that ships and ports failed to follow its terms, have been dismissed by a legal specialist. Barry Tarnef, responsible for global maritime loss control at American lawyers Chubb & Son, said the International Code for the Security of Ships and Port Facilities, agreed in December, code could actually shield ship-owners from crushing settlements: "If you develop a security assessment protocol, it’s evidence that you are doing the best you can," he said.…
MOULD RISK
BY PHILIP FINE
AMERICAN builders and homeowners have been keenly watching the issue of mould, with more than 9,000 mould-related insurance claims being made in the US in the last decade. That say critics, has led insurance companies to raise home insurance premiums even in states without significant mould claims, many of which have been sparked by water damage, such as flooding.…
IMPERIAL SUGAR
BY PHILIP FINE
IMPERIAL Sugar has shut down the refinery that gave a sweet name to a Houston suburb. The company closed its 77-year-old Sugar Land, Texas operation, blaming a US market glut and the refinery’s distance to cane crops. Imperial had been milling or refining in Sugar Land since the mid-1800s.…
FISHY ICE-POPS
BY PHILIP FINE
ICE-CREAM maker Good Humor-Breyers won a patent recently for using proteins from fish that thrive in freezing seas to improve water ices, sorbet, granitas and frozen fruit purées. The method creates a close-packed network of ice crystals so that the treats’ flavour and colour is not significantly sucked out during consumption.…
AMERICAN SECURITY LISTS
BY PHILIP FINE
AN AMERICAN public interest group is seeking to have the US government release information it holds on ‘suspicious’ air passengers. Saying it has exhausted all administrative means, the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is trying to secure an injunction against the Department
of Homeland Security, demanding the release of airline passenger ‘watch-lists’.…