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BY MARK ROWE
FIVE hundred whisky producers in Thailand have been threatened with arrest after they protested against laws they say discriminate against small-scale liquor producers. The men set up their bootleg equipment in the centre of the town of Buri Ram and sold it publicly, in defiance of police.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
CANADA, New Brunswick-based Moosehead Breweries, will have to rent space in a new brewery in Montreal to bypass Quebec’s import barrier against beers from its home (and neighbouring) province. These amount to CAN$8.56 per case, 26 per cent of total cost.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
CANADIAN brewers Molson and Labatt are currently embroiled in a legal battle over the right to use the term ‘export’ in brands sold in the key market of in Ontario.

Molson is asking the province’s Court of Appeal to grant an injunction that would prohibit Labatt from selling or advertising Oland Export Ale, a brand produced from Oland, its Halifax, Nova Scotia, based subsidiary.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE USA dominates the world’s soft-drinks markets with its Coca Cola, Pepsi and affiliated brands, so can the big players in the European bottled mineral water industry achieve a similar success with brands such as Evian, Volvic and Perrier?…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is to lend Euro 14 million to a Czech subsidiary of French agri-business company Groupe Soufflet so it can expand its malting interests in the east European country. The money will enable Malterie Soufflet République Tchéque to acquire shares in Obchodní Sladovny, the malting subsidiary of Czech company Tchecomalt Group.…

Keith Nuthall
CENTRAL American coffee producers are to receive aid worth US$ millions from the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, who have agreed to re-allocate money from rural development budgets worth US$500 million, at the request of local governments, to help coffee-producing areas.…

Keith Nuthall
CENTRAL American coffee producers are to receive aid worth US$ millions from the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, who have agreed to re-allocate money from rural development budgets worth US$500 million, at the request of local governments, to help coffee-producing areas.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A FRENCH fishing company has opened the way for fellow fishermen from across the European Union to launch direct legal challenges to EU fishing regulations.

Until now, under European case law, fishing and other companies were not allowed to ask judges at the European Court of Justice to strike down irksome EU rules, where they apply equally to a number of competitors.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission today (Wednesday) approved UK state aid totalling about Pounds 4 million for four coal mining operations: North East Surface Mines, (Pounds 739,000) AND Central Surface Mines, (Pounds 832,000), both owned by H.J. Banks and Co Ltd; Coalpower Ltd’s Hatfield Colliery, (Pounds 1.16 million) and LAW Mining Ltd’s Ayrshire Coalfields, (Pounds 1.33 million).…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN consultancies Wardrop Engineering and Micon International are to offer joint advice on mining and metallurgical projects, from initial resource estimation, feasibility studies and operational analysis, to site closure. The two companies have decided they can work well together as their areas of expertise dovetail, rather than duplicate each other’s.…