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EUROPEAN Union (EU) knitted fabric importers are continuing to focus their sourcing overwhelmingly on Turkey, China, and South Korea, according to data released by the European Apparel and Textile Confederation (Euratex). With their low production costs, fabric expertise, and advantageous free trade agreements, these countries offer key benefits as a sourcing destination.…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) knitted fabric importers are continuing to focus their sourcing overwhelmingly on Turkey, China, and South Korea, according to data released by the European Apparel and Textile Confederation (Euratex). With their low production costs, fabric expertise, and advantageous free trade agreements, these countries offer key benefits as a sourcing destination.…

CONFECTIONERY and sweet bakery industry chiefs have moved beyond their initial shock at the UK Brexit referendum vote to leave the European Union (EU) to consider their best case scenarios for a future with Britain outside the 28 country bloc.

As an immediate step, employers and industry associations have been trying to reassure staff who are non-UK EU nationals working in Britain about their status.…

THE ENERGY market in Asia is one of the most dynamic sectors in the region, and so government policy and regulation is having to be nimble and flexible, trying to coax production in a sustainable direction.

Take the deregulation of Japan’s household electricity market, which went into effect on April 1.…

The leaked Panama Papers exposed the shadowy dealings of Panama’s offshore banking sector, but this is only the tip of the iceberg for a country that has become one of the centres of commercial crime in the Americas. James Bargent reports.…

MALAYSIA may have its political struggles, with current Prime Minister Najib Razak at loggerheads with predecessor Mahathir Mohamad, but its economic progress seems sound, being reflected in a healthy and growing market for paints and varnishes.

According to London-based market researcher Euromonitor International, especially bouyed by growth in plastics and construction, Malaysia’s paint and varnish producers will see their turnover grow by an average of 8% over the period of 2015 -2025.…

INDIA’S 1.3 billion population and a rapidly growing economy provides ideal conditions for the spread of its hair care products market, which, according to market researcher Euromonitor International, is growing at an annual rate of 8%, with sales of USD3 billion in 2016.…

THE opening of Paddy Power bookmaker shops in provincial Romanian cities such as Cluj in the past year is the latest show of international ambition from an Irish corporation which has become a market leader and has shaken up the European gambling industry.…

WHILE Pakistan prepares to implement some new reforms to corporate governance rules, a leading female business executive hopes this latest round of reform will lead to greater participation of women on corporate boards as directors.

Economist and business executive Sadia Khan has earned recognition as Pakistan’s leading advocate of improved corporate governance for her work over the past two decades in both the public and private sectors.…

Accountants share responsibility with banks to direct their small-and-medium-sized enterprise (SME) clients towards sources of finance, a Brussels conference has been told. Rebecca McNeil, head of SME lending at Barclays, said at a July 13 Brussels conference on ‘Capital Markets Union: delivering new opportunities for SMEs through venture capital’, declared: “We all have the duty of care, banks, accountants … to signpost SMEs to sources of finance.” …