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BY ALYSHAH HASHAM

AS with many oils and fats industries, the cocoa sector has distinct elements: producers, processors, distributers, wholesalers and retailers. Their collective environmental impact can be reduced if they work together in the most efficient way possible. And it is partly for that reason that there is a growing trend towards pressing and grinding the cocoa near the source, particularly in Ghana and Ivory Coast (which together account for 60% of the world’s cocoa supply), as well as Indonesia.…

BY KARRYN MILLER, ANCA GURZU, MARK ROWE and PAUL COCHRANE

THE NEED to think out of the box to reduce carbon emissions and pollution is becoming increasingly appreciated in the Asia-Pacific region. And the coatings sector offers a range of solutions to reduce energy use.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN INTERNATIONAL consortium will generate and investigate a liquid library of 3,600 plant extracts, hunting for compounds useful for cosmetics (and food) manufacture. Germany’s BASF and Bruker Biospin GMBH, Greece’s Korres SA Natural Products will work with national research centres from Greece, France and South Africa plus universities from Greece, Panama and Switzerland in this 2010-2014 Euro 4.2 million, European Union-funded research project.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE HIGH profile criminal cases against ex-Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling and Canada-born former newspaper owner Lord Conrad Black have led to the United States Supreme Court reducing the scope of America’s ‘honest services’ statute, used to convict many fraudsters.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

AS trade barriers continue to diminish, clothing brands are becoming more global. However it is not as easy for the sizes of their goods to be quite as worldly. International players need to adapt their fits for different target markets but that level of adaptation varies by country.…

BY ALYSHAH HASHAM

Given to have plus-size clothing lines to sell, you need plus-size consumers, it is maybe not a surprise that the American market for these clothes is of critical importance. The USA’s National Center for Health Statistics reports that 60% of women and more than two-thirds of adults in the USA’s 304 million population generally are now overweight.…

BY GAVIN BLAIR,KARRYN MILLER,ALAN OSBORN and KEITH NUTHALL

EVERY country had its own take on convenience stores. These retail traditions tend to be rooted in local cultures, making a certain combination of goods acceptable in one country, but not another. Rural Ireland, for instance, with its sparse population, has traditionally supported a bewildering array of convenience store offerings, mixing for retail with hardware, post offices, tobacco, newspapers, car repairs and more – and sometimes all at once.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

It is common knowledge that no two bodies are the same. Although clothing sizes help us to categorise bodies into general fits, each garment is going to hang a little differently depending on the consumer. Looking forward these variations in sizes are becoming more apparent as we see advancements in 3D scanning technology that allow us to get a more complete picture of an individual’s size.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and EMMA JACKSON

AUSTRALIA’S tobacco industry can be expected to put up a strong fight against a federal government proposal to mandate plain paper packaging for its products. And it will doubtless have the support of the international tobacco industry because this planned legislation is a clear test case.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) panel has refused to set an advisory limit for the intake of sugar by European Union (EU) consumers. EFSA’s panel on dietetic products, nutrition and allergies has concluded in a comprehensive assessment of dietary requirements for EU consumers “there was insufficient evidence to set an upper limit for sugars”.…