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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is lending Euro 58 million, (US$50 million), to Vega do Sul S.A., to build a cold-rolling and hot-dip galvanizing plant in São Fernando do Sul, in the state of Santa Catarina, in southern Brazil.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE EL Paso Corporation, of Texas, is making preparations to begin work on the Blue Atlantic Transmission System, a pipeline project designed to transport new natural gas supplies off the coast of Canada’s Nova Scotia to eastern and the north-eastern regions of the USA.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ONLINE sales of cigarettes will exceed US$10 billion annually, or a quarter of all sales, in a decade, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina.

Smokers are increasingly buying their cigarettes via the Internet to avoid paying punitive taxes; the medium helps retailers sidestep restrictions on advertising and sales to minors.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN government has been urged to pass legislation that will force tobacco companies to make the cigarettes marketed as light or mild taste harsher.

A new report from one of Health Canada’s advisory bodies, the Ministerial Advisory Council on Tobacco Control, has recommended: “Once the government has addressed the issue of deceptive cigarette marketing, it should consider the issue of cigarette engineering that is misleading to smokers.”…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
ONTARIO-based, Sleeman Breweries has announced that it has reached an agreement with H.P. Bulmer Ltd. of Hereford, England, to handle sales and marketing for its Strongbow premium packaged and draught ciders in Canada.

Bulmer cider became available in liquor stores in Ontario, B.C…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
THE COCA-COLA Bottling Company has just(October 29) launched Diet Coke with Lemon in Canada, an event times to match the 20th anniversary of Diet Coke in the country; it is the first flavour extension for Diet Coke.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CHOCOLATE sales have been buoyed in Canada following the attacks in the United States says John Rowsome, President of the Confectionery Manufacturers of Canada. Speaking to the Toronto Globe and Mail he said that a recent boom could not just be explained by the traditional increase in north American demand during the Halloween period.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANZ Fischler has been making a lot of speeches recently. It is not because he has time on his hands, he is in charge of the European Commission’s largest two budgets, agriculture and fisheries after all. Rather it is because he is cross with the Americans, whom he accuses of playing Janus at the WTO.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
LABATT Breweries, of Canada, based in Toronto, has publicly blasted its main advertising agency, Ammirati Puris, telling it to shape up or another team will gain their business.

In an unusually open attack on a contracted business partner, vice-president of marketing for Labatt, Charles Oliver said that his company expected better value for their money from the ad company.…

BY MONCA DOBIE
CONCERNS raised by some newspaper pundits over the recent Americanisation of Canada’s western oil fields are unfounded, according to both industry analysts and the federal government in Ottawa.

Columnists have raised their eyebrows about a series of deals in the past 10 months which has seen a clutch of key Alberta oil companies being taken over by large US rivals.…