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MONEY launderers are always looking for a new opportunity to clean dirty money, and have been exploiting sales of French vineyards for the purpose. Criminal networks have to this end leveraged a combination of a flagging domestic property market, increasing foreign interest in French property and wine, and a general ignorance among the real estate professional community about money laundering risks.…

Leading figures of Europe’s aluminium industry with an annual turnover of Euro EUR40 billion met in Brussels yesterday (Apr 23) to launch a ‘Sustainability Roadmap 2025’ charting a greener way forward for the sector over the next decade.
“First and foremost, this is a call to action for European aluminium which we intend to unleash aluminium’s full potential for Europe,” Pierre Vareille, chairman of the European Aluminium Association and CEO of aluminium major Constellium.…

THE POLISH, Scottish, Austrian and Belgian meat sectors are significant winners in the latest announcement of European Union (EU) marketing financing designed to help food companies seize more sales within and outside the EU.
They will benefit from multi-million Euro sales and marketing programmes, 50% funded by the EU, announced yesterday (Tues April 21).…

Bangladesh’s knitting industry faces key changes in the next 20 years as the western-educated children of first-generation businessmen take over family-owned firms. Industry experts note that some second-generation entrepreneurs have already taken the reins of major knitwear companies and are introducing modern management practices and discovering new financing channels.…

Changing textile and other input suppliers may be fraught with difficulties, but it is key to the role of any clothing buyer.
“It can be extremely difficult,” said Emma Wilson, buyer for UK-based specialist sourcing agency Smartway. “There are issues such as quality, lead-times and monitoring the supplier.”…

Germany’s confectionery industry has sided with the federal government in a clash between the ruling parties in the country’s grand coalition over whether to impose stiffer taxes on sugar to boost public health. A proposal to raise the reduced VAT rate of 7% on confectionery and other sugar-based products to the standard VAT rate of 19% has been made by Elvira Drobinksi-Weiß, the consumer protection spokeswoman for the Social Democrat Party (SPD).…

Dairy and energy sector experts are optimistic about effective cold chain solutions being developed for India’s dairy sector in the near future. Speakers at a two-day seminar on New Technologies for Milk Processing, staged in Mumbai at the India International Dairy Expo that concluded April 24, focused on a two way approach: using innovative energy solutions to improve milk delivery systems; better packaging to enhanced product shelf life.…

EXPORTERS of liquid milk and associated products to the European Union (EU) will have to work harder to secure sales in future from April 1, with the EU finally scrapping its production quotas from that date. They may also have to fend off new tough competition from EU exporters in their domestic markets.…

Of all the countries that made up the old Soviet Union, the central Asian republics have proved the slowest to open up to the outside world. For the personal care product industry, this represents opportunities, but also significant hurdles and barriers.…

THE PERSONAL care product sector in the European Union (EU) has had to work hard to comply with the 2012 biocidal products regulation, which will have significant implications for the use of preservatives in cosmetics. Manufacturers of biocidal products need to be have their active ingredients registered for assessment by September 1 (2015) for them to be used in the EU.…