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IRELAND - WINE
BY JONATHAN THOMSON
MORE people are drinking wine in the Irish Republic according to the latest figures from the Wine Development Board of Ireland.
The Board reported growth in the country’s wine market the first four months of 2002, with women driving up sales, consuming 57 per cent of all wine sold in Ireland.…
ICE WINE CANADA
BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S ice-wine industry has suffered a serious blow because of unseasonably mild winter weather. Most wineries in the Niagara on the Lake region in Ontario will see a decline of 50 per cent or more in their ice-wine grape yields.…
PHYTOSANITARY DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHAT could be more straightforward or fairer, you might think, than the European Union’s veterinary and phytosanitary agreements with non-member countries?
The idea is that each party pledges that the food it exports to the other – be it derived from animals or plants – meets the requirements of its own food safety legislation and that this is then taken on trust by the receiving country.…
GEORGE WESTON
BY MONICA DOBIE
TORONTO-based biscuit bakeries, George Weston Ltd will sell its Oroweat division to Mexico-based, Grupo Bimbo, for US$610 million. The sale includes five production facilities, and a licence to sell and manufacture the Entenmann’s brand in western United States and an agreement to distribute products under the Thomas’ and Boboli brands in the same region.…
M&M COLOURS
BY MONICA DOBIE
M&M’s manufacturer Masterfoods USA will add a new colour to their multicoloured chocolate sweets, choosing between purple, aqua or pink. The choice will be decided by online votes cast at www.mms.com from March 6 to May 31. The winner will be announced on June 19.…
PHILIPPINES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has launched the first stage of disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation over provisional safeguard duties imposed by the Philippines government on imports of glazed and unglazed ceramic wall and floor tiles. The European Commission has called for formal talks on the matter with the Filipino government; if these fail, then Brussels could ask a WTO panel to arbitrate on the matter.…
DESIGN DIRECTIVE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CERAMICS designs are to receive uniform legal protection across the European Union in the future because of the agreement by the EU Council of Ministers of a new Regulation on the subject; it accords designers legal protection from the theft of their ideas, short of patent or copyright protection, but significant enough to deter plagiarists.…
ROYAL CERAMICS LANKA
BY SWNINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
ROYAL Ceramics Lanka Limited, one of the largest ceramic tile manufacturers in Sri Lanka, has launched a rights issue in a bid to raise more than SLRupees 246 million to try and almost double its present production capacity from 1.2 million square metres to 2.3 million square metres.…
FERRO MOLYBDENUM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has voted to impose definitive 22.5 per cent anti-dumping duties on imports of ferro molybdenum from China. Sweden opposed the move, with Germany, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands and Britain abstaining. The European Commission investigation leading to the decision was sparked by a complaint by EU producers association Ferro-alliages.…
MACEDONIA CHECKING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers (general affairs) has approved an intensive double-checking system regarding the trade in steel products between Macedonia and the European Union. Its aim is to boost openness and transparency in the export of Macedonian steel, under the trade agreement Skopje has signed with Brussels, preventing the system being abused.…