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BY KEITH NUTHALL and MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

THE CHAIRMAN, CEO and founder of Canadian brewer Sleeman has said he will fight to keep his family name in the beer business, after a review of commercial options was ambushed and turned into a takeover battle.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

A US$25 million financing package has been signed by the International Finance Corporation, of the World Bank, with Canada-based Rally Energy, supporting upstream oil and gas projects in Egypt and Pakistan. In Egypt, Rally is helping develop the Ras Issaran heavy oil concession, the Gulf of Suez; in Pakistan, the Safed Koh gas block, in the Punjab.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CANADA’S CanWest Petroleum is to absorb its subsidiary Oilsands Quest Inc to create one enlarged company working in the Alberta and Saskatchewan oil sands regions. Oilsands owns exploration permits covering 508,000 acres in north-west Saskatchewan. CanWest already owns 59.5% of Oilsands.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

THE CITIZENS of Ottawa, Canada, may be banned from wearing scent in public areas, in what is thought to be a first among all capitol cities. City of Ottawa councillors are to debate a proposal from a council citizens’ committee on the environment that pass a by-law stopping people from wearing perfume, scented soaps and deodorants to work.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

CANADA’S CanWest Petroleum is to absorb its subsidiary Oilsands Quest Inc, to create one enlarged company working in the Alberta and Saskatchewan oil sands regions. Oilsands owns exploration permits covering 508,000 acres in north-west Saskatchewan. CanWest already owns 59.5% of Oilsands.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the proposed acquisition of the inks and adhesive resins business of Dutch company Akzo Nobel by the USA’s Hexion, part of the Apollo Group. This follows a Commission inquiry focusing on potential damage to competition in supplies of printing ink industry resins, especially rosin resins.…

STORIES BY MONICA DOBIE

CANADA’S third largest brewer Sleeman Breweries Ltd has announced at what could be the company’s last annual general meeting that it will now begin seriously considering proposals to sell the company. CEO, John Sleeman, said "several" offers from domestic and international beer manufacturers had come to his attention and that they will be examined in the next three months.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

QUEBEC’S corner shops are struggling to survive because of a beer price war. The cost of mainstream beer brands for small retailers will be CDN$27.89 from June 5, but the official government minimum price for sales to drinkers is CDN$21.90.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

INTRODUCTION

WITH the approval in May of two key regulations covering respectively nutrition and health claims and the addition of vitamins and minerals to foods the EU has taken an important step forward in setting the legal framework for the food industry in Europe.…

BY SYMON ROSS, in Christchurch, New Zealand,

THE DAVEY family swapped arable faming on the Lincolnshire Wolds for mixed farming on New Zealand’s South Island five years ago and say they haven’t looked back since.

Bill and Lynda Davey had felt the future of family farming in England was in serious jeopardy and made a life changing decision to look overseas.…