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HONEY CARE AFRICA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GOOD practice of an innovative honey company has been highlighted through its winning a United Nations Development Programme prize for promoting small-scale honey production in Kenya. Honey Care Africa, supported by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, has won the US$30,000 Equator Prize.…
CASHEW PRICES
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIAN cashew nut processors are expecting 2001 and 2002s’ glut in supplies of the confectionary ingredient to be slowed, with prices rising above the US$1.70-1.90 a pound of the past 24 months. Pankaj Sampat of Samsons Trading Co said he expects “balance” to return to the market.…
EP REVIEW CALL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ENVIRONMENT committee of the European Parliament wants a review of the safety levels of food additives used in confectionery to check whether they are safe for children. It backed a report by Swedish liberal MEP Marit Paulsen, which calling for a European Commission act within three years, because such additive levels are set with the health of adults in mind.…
CARGILLS - SRI LANKA
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
SRI LANKA’S Cargills has introduced five new flavours to its Magice ice cream range: fresh strawberry, fruit and nut, vanilla with jaggery, mint with chocolate chips and butterscotch with nougat. The company claims the flavours are new to Sri Lankan consumers.…
INDIAN ICECREAM
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE ALL-INDIA Ice-cream Manufacturers’ Association has launched a campaign to erase a 35 per cent dip in winter sales, even though Indian winter maximums hover in the 20Cs. A spokesman for ice-cream parlour company Nirulas said: “Most of us have this notion that eating ice-cream in winters will make us sick.”…
POLAND - EU
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A TRADE deal smoothing Poland’s planned 2004 entry into the European Union has been agreed, where the EU introduces duty free quotas for products including chocolate, biscuits and confectionery and Poland cuts its import duties for chocolate, biscuits and confectionery by 30 per cent.…
SIEMENS TAKEOVER
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the acquisition of Siemens “ceramics” business unit by US investment firm Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts. The takeover deal involves the purchase of seven Siemens businesses, companies or subsidiaries.
Brussels concluded that there were no serious competition concerns as KKR has little presence in the markets concerned.…
PADDY CLAY
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
CERAMIC manufacturers in Sri Lanka are seeking changes in national laws restricting the quarrying of paddy lands, because they contain premium deposits of kaolin. The Ceramics Industry Task Force has asked Columbo to certain provisions of the Agrarian Development Act, which ban the mining of paddy lands.…
FOREIGN TRADE CORPORATION DUTIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has published a list of exported American print industry products that could be saddled with protective duties of up to 100 per cent, because of a World Trade Organisation ruling allowing Brussels to retaliate against the US’s use of foreign trade corporations to give its exporters illegal tax breaks.…
SERBIA PLANT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for Reconstruction is spending Euro 50 million on rehabilitating the coal fired A3 block of Serbia’s Nikola Tesla A power station, the largest plant in the country. The maximum output 305 megawatts facility was installed in 1976 and has not been effectively overhauled for ten years, It is operating at two-thirds capacity, “in a poor state of repair and safety,” said the EU agency.…