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Among all the sectors that make up the UK healthcare industry, plastic and cosmetic surgery pose among the biggest challenges for nurses, with the most significant issues being professional indemnity, plus securing relevant training and qualifications.

The wide range of nurse responsibilities in the sector intensifies these challenges.…

Green energy support schemes across the European Union (EU) have survived a tough and potentially damaging legal challenge at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which has ruled such subsidies are legal – even if they skewer cross-border electricity sales.
EU member states have agreed to increase their energy production from renewable sources.…

INDIAN knitwear manufacturers are hoping for a major growth impetus because of industry-friendly policies being rolled out by the new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government. “We are very optimistic about the new government,” Naval Saraf, proprietor of Super Knit Industries, a sock manufacturing company in Mumbai told Knitting International.…

Indian dairy product giant Amul’s newly appointed managing director Amul Dairy managing director Dr K Rathnam has spoken to just-food  about the Gujarat-based cooperative’s future : A range of new value-added ‘nutraceutical products’ are due for launch later this year midst  plans to start manufacturing  in Europe and Singapore by early 2016.…

THE United Arab Emirates (UAE), including Dubai and Abu Dhabi, heads the global league table for the percentage of consumers reporting that they have been victims of fraud involving credit, debit or prepaid cards. This emerges from a fraud study of more than 6,100 consumers across 20 countries conducted by international payment systems provider ACI Worldwide and analysts Aite Group.…

THE EUROPEAN cosmetics industry should steer away from claiming its products are ‘free-of’ preservatives and other similar ingredients, which could give consumers the wrong impression, the annual conference organised by Cosmetics Europe in Brussels on 10-11 June heard.

“All that preservatives-free claims do in the long term is to reinforce the stigmatisation of preservatives, since consumers believe they are wrong,” said Martin Seychell, deputy director-general for health and consumers at the European Commission.…

SIX months after new European Union (EU) rules came into force regarding air passengers carrying liquids, aerosols and gels (the trade acronym is LAGs) in hand luggage at EU airports, business seems to have improved for personal care product duty free retailers.…

THE MARKET for perfume and other scents in Asia is developing fast in most of the continent, especially in emerging markets, where consumers are using their new purchasing power to explore new tastes and brands.
To some extent, perfume has been lagging behind colour cosmetics and skincare, which have been targeted by the bigger brands as products likely to be regarded as affordable luxuries in the masstige market segments.…

AN INFLUX of big-brand café and convenience retail chains is whetting China’s appetite for sweet bakery, including in smaller cities. Brands are diversifying and moving upmarket, offering coffee and seating.

Take Beijing’s Beixinqiao, in the city’s older quarter, a busy intersection of residential blocks and a hub for restaurants and youth-focused fashion stores.…

THE INDIAN cosmetics market has been growing consistently at around 15% annually, and given the country’s large and growing population, much of which still spends very little on cosmetics, long term growth seems assured. This is the assessment of Technopak, a consultancy firm based in Gurgaon, near New Delhi.…