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BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S Sleeman Breweries Ltd. has announced it is expanding its 2002 agreement with Tokyo-based Sapporo Breweries to include worldwide production of the Japanese beer in its distinctive 650 ml “Silver Can.”

Currently, Ontario-based Sleeman produces Sapporo bottled products for the United States market, where Sapporo remains the number one selling Japanese beer.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has published a comprehensive analysis of the world’s forest products industry and markets. With the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation, it has released Forest Products Annual Market Analysis, 2002-2004. It covers forest products market and policy developments in Europe, north America and the former Soviet Union.…

BY PHILIP FINE

BLUE jeans-maker Levi Strauss will close its last manufacturing and

finishing plants in north America. The 150-year old company plans to close its sewing and finishing operations in San Antonio, Texas, by the year-end, costing some 800 jobs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL in Paris, ALAN OSBORN in London, MARK ROWE in Singapore, ED PETERS and DON GASPER in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane and ALEX SMAILES in Port of Spain.…

BY PHILIP FINE

WITH profits down and a flooded chicken market, America’s Tyson Foods, the world’s largest meat producer, is planning to sack more than a third of its Arkansas plant workforce. The company says it will be outsourcing the work of the 600 dismissed unionised workers, who mainly removed bones from chicken carcasses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
*A south-south project – backed by World Bank Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) will raise Burundi’s teledensity ratio above one per cent. It is guaranteeing Mauritius Telecom Ltd’s US$1.01 million investment in Burundi’s Africell GSM mobile network.

*An emerging international market in hosting regional and international headquarters of transnational corporations benefits developing countries, says the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); 829 HQs were established or relocated January 2002 to March 2003, nearly a quarter in developing countries.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AN ASSUMPTION has been made by many in the past few months in the international food industry: the unveiling of so many new low-calorie and low-fat alternative food items must have something to do with obesity-related litigation lurking in the US.…

BY RICHARD HURST
SOUTH African mining company AngloGold recently announced that it was seeking to divest from some of its Australian gold fields to continue other diversification efforts outside South Africa. AngloGold Australia ‘s general manager, Barrie Parker, said that the company’s current properties in the central Australian Tanami Desert, particularly the Coyote deposit, had been earmarked for sale in to raise money for AngloGold’s recent explorations in Ghana, Mongolia, Canada and South America.…

BY PHILIP FINE

ONE of America’s largest clothing retailers is being sued for alleged racial bias

in their hiring practices. Nine young adults, including students and graduates of the University of California and Stanford, have accused Abercrombie & Fitch of discriminating against Latino, Asian American and African American applicants and employees.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NON-FERROUS metal producers in the existing 15 European Union (EU) countries could see some lowering of labour costs after enlargement of the EU next year as low-paid Polish and other workers move into the higher wage countries like Germany, according to industry sources.…