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BY MONICA DOBIE
NESTLE Canada has announced it will no longer manufacture some of its chocolate products in a nut free environment, as of January 1, 2002.

Nestle said that the change is due to increased demand from consumers for peanut and nut chocolate products, forcing it to expand production of these lines, raising the risk of cross-contamination.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A TINY educational publishing firm based in Toronto, consisting of only 8 people, has managed to secure a contract in China, the “Golden Goose” of markets, worth $18 million dollars.

Lingo Media has announced a co-publishing deal with China’s education giant, the People’s Educational Press (PEP), to supply Chinese students with text books from the 1st year of primary school to the senior levels across the country.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A TINY educational publishing firm based in Toronto, consisting of only eight people, has managed to secure a contract in China, the “Golden Goose” of world book markets, worth (Can)$18 million.

Lingo Media has announced a co-publishing deal with China’s education giant, the People’s Educational Press (PEP), to supply Chinese students with text books from the 1st year of primary school to the senior levels, across the country.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S new bookselling giant Chapters and Indigo Books & Music will put 23 retail outlets up for sale as part of an agreement with the country’s Federal Competition Bureau, paving the way for the imminent merger of the two chains.…

BY MONICA DOBIE AND KEITH NUTHALL
DAIMLER Chrysler Canada and Ford Canada have been trying to persuade the Canadian federal government to replace the now defunct 1965 Canada/United States auto pact with a system of assistance that would not be so open to a challenge at the World Trade Organisation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S LEADER in glass bottle making, Consumers Packaging Inc. has

appointed a new trouble shooter Brent Ballantyne as its Chief Restructuring Officer, a move that is expected to lead to an increase in bottle prices for the Canadian drinks industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND MONICA DOBIE
THE NEW Zealand government has imposed a series of trade restrictions, because of Foot and Mouth, clamping down on imports of venison, cattle semen and dairy from the UK and beef from Argentina, among many other products.…

Keith Nuthall
THE MAN who launched ‘Sue-a-Shoplifter Ltd’ in Britain, perched on a settee in the meeting room of the Institute of Directors in London and told me that he was working for fun.

Not for Professor Joshua Bamfield the lure of lucre generated by the 45 per cent commission on damages or the mantle of the country’s greatest crime-buster, but instead academic curiosity, a project in his chosen subject, retail crime.…

BY MIKE FOX, in Montreal
WINNEPEG, in the Canadian prairie province of Manitoba, may sound like the sort of city which would only merit a small regional airport, but the Winnipeg Airports Authority (WAA) has big plans to exploit its unique position.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CANADIAN government is considering making some changes in its cattle feed policies in order to reduce the risk of BSE, following recommendations from a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation report earlier this month.

The UN named Canada as being at risk because it imports live cattle and parts for feed from countries that have had cases of the disease.…