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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A new slowdown in the growth of global steel markets is a long term trend, spanning the rest of the decade and beyond, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) predicted today. (Friday).

These conclusions were reached by the OECD’s steel committee meeting in Paris over the past two days.…

BY WANG FANGQING, IN SHANGHAI

THE CHINESE pharmaceutical sector is pushing hard to secure sales in sub-Saharan Africa – seeing it as a softer and growing export market, compared to stagnating mature markets in Europe and north America. It is for want of trying.…

Latin America’s robust economy and fascination with beauty has made it a very lucrative region for cosmetics and perfume companies.  However corruption, weak border control and smuggling networks are helping to make the piracy of cosmetics and perfumes into a pervasive problem, causing major loss of revenue to both governments and companies alike.…

THE KNITWEAR manufacturers of Taiwan are being challenged by headwinds from the global economic downturn, which has undermined their smart high-end export strategy. Last year was not a good one – as indicated by drops in exports of circular-knit fabric and knitted clothing apparel of 2.74% to USD1.265 billion and 10.97% to USD178 million respectively in the first eight months compared to the corresponding period of 2011.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

STANDING firmly in the middle of the Wi-Fi, cloud, and M2M revolutions has delivered explosive growth for Openet, an Irish based global leader of real-time transaction management software and services.

The middleware firm’s story and strategy neatly illustrates challenges facing operators and the solutions that innovation can provide.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, IN TOKYO

Masumi Natsusaka has global ambitions for Kanebo Cosmetics Inc., where he assumed the company’s presidency in June. And he has told Soap Perfumery & Cosmetics that he is impatient for brands that have previously only been for selected foreign and domestic markets to evolve into truly global brands developed to directly meet the needs of a new generation of consumers around the world.…

BY ROBERT STOKES, IN MALAGA

RANDOM House is bullish about selling more English and Spanish language titles in Spain and Latin America as a result of its planned merger with Penguin Books and outright purchase of Spain’s Random House Mondadori (RHM).…

BY ALAN OSBORN

The US nuclear energy industry appears confident that President Barack Obama’s second term in the White House will oversee a continued central role for the nuclear industry at the heart of America’s energy policies. In a statement issued by the Nuclear Energy Institute in Washington, Martin Fertel, NEI president and chief executive officer, said President Obama had explicitly mentioned in his comprehensive economic plan, "the need for a significant contribution from nuclear energy to achieve the administration’s goals."…

BY JONATHAN DYSON, IN ADDIS ABABA

A NEW airport in Ethiopia is to become the main international hub in the country. With rapidly growing traffic at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport over recent years, plans are underway to build a major new airport that would supersede Bole as the country’s main international airport, while Bole itself would be expanded.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, IN BEIRUT

THE UPRISINGS in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) over the past two years have had a negative impact on the construction and paint sectors, throwing a proverbial spanner in the works when the region was striving to come out of recession.…