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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A TINY educational publishing firm based in Toronto, consisting of only 8 people, has managed to secure a contract in China, the “Golden Goose” of markets, worth $18 million dollars.

Lingo Media has announced a co-publishing deal with China’s education giant, the People’s Educational Press (PEP), to supply Chinese students with text books from the 1st year of primary school to the senior levels across the country.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S new bookselling giant Chapters and Indigo Books & Music will put 23 retail outlets up for sale as part of an agreement with the country’s Federal Competition Bureau, paving the way for the imminent merger of the two chains.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
COCA-COLA Canada and Toronto-based Parmalat have launched high-level talks to resolve a potential legal dispute over which company has the rights to use the advertising slogan “Life tastes good”, a line that Coke just happens to have earmarked for a new global campaign.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA and the US have failed to solve the looming softwood lumber dispute at the Summit of the Americas, in Quebec City.

The US International Trade Commission will probably now hear claims by the American timber industry that Canada has flooded the US with cheap timber illegally and investigate how it contributed to the closure of 150 American lumber mills.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL action plan to fight forest fires is being drawn up with the assistance of the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation. Experts from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Ethiopia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, Turkey and USA have been discussing proposals for a system involving mutual assistance and coordinated approaches to forest fire management.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND MONICA DOBIE
THE NEW Zealand government has imposed a series of trade restrictions, because of Foot and Mouth, clamping down on imports of venison, cattle semen and dairy from the UK and beef from Argentina, among many other products.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SLEEMAN beer, made by Canada’s third largest brewery, has been testing the British market through a brand development company.

David Stewart, marketing director for Marble Head Brand Development said that the brand had had a few hiccups, but he considers its future to be bright, and is preparing to re-launch it in selected off licences in the next 12 months.…

Keith Nuthall
THE MAN who launched ‘Sue-a-Shoplifter Ltd’ in Britain, perched on a settee in the meeting room of the Institute of Directors in London and told me that he was working for fun.

Not for Professor Joshua Bamfield the lure of lucre generated by the 45 per cent commission on damages or the mantle of the country’s greatest crime-buster, but instead academic curiosity, a project in his chosen subject, retail crime.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S LEADER in glass bottle making, Consumers Packaging Inc. has

appointed a new trouble shooter Brent Ballantyne as its Chief Restructuring Officer, a move that is expected to lead to an increase in bottle prices for the Canadian drinks industry.…

BY MIKE FOX, in Montreal
WINNEPEG, in the Canadian prairie province of Manitoba, may sound like the sort of city which would only merit a small regional airport, but the Winnipeg Airports Authority (WAA) has big plans to exploit its unique position.…