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CHAPTERS LATEST
BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN take-over victim Chapters has been given five months to sell off 13 superstores and 10 mall retail outlets before the job will be handed over to a trustee, who will have four months to divest the assets, according to an interview given by its new boss Heather Reisman in the Canadian journal Quill and Quire.…
COKE SLOGAN
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.…
ICE WINE
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE EUROPEAN Commission has agreed to allow Canadian ice-wine, the specialised dessert wine made from frozen grapes, to be sold within the EU, after a long battle to have the designation of recognised by Brussels was finally won.…
BAMFIELD PIECE
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.…
WINNEPEG
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.…
CANADA/NEWZEALAND
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.…
CONSUMERS PACKAGING
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.…
CANADA - UNIONISATION
BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN farmers are awaiting a Supreme Court of Canada decision, which could allow farm workers in Ontario the right to establish effective unions and engage in collective bargaining.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union challenged the provincial Progressive Conservative government’s constitutional right to repeal legislation imposed by a previous social democratic government in 1995, which allowed the province’s farm workers to unionise and bargain collectively.…
BSE PRECAUTIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CANADIAN government is considering making some changes in its cattle feed policies in order to reduce the risk of BSE, following recommendations from a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation report earlier this month.
The UN named Canada as being at risk because it imports live cattle and parts for feed from countries that have had cases of the disease.…
IDIOTS GUIDE COMPUTER SECURITY
Keith Nuthall
INTRODUCTION
IMAGINE the scene. You are a managing director of a new delivery service. You have bought computers, stationary, furniture, filing cabinets, vans and telephones. Advertising has been placed and orders are expected. You are ready to go.
Just one problem.…