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Scotland’s airports are making discreet enquiries as to how their procedures might change in the event of a yes vote in this September’s referendum on independence. Several issues have been raised by airports with air traffic control organisation NATS and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), as well as with the European Commission on the potential impact on agreements on flights between the European Union (EU) and the United States.…

WHILE the debate over British airport capacity and expansion has focused on the comparatively rich and crowded south-east England, regional airports across the UK have been increasing passenger numbers and footprint substantially. In each case, airport management has had to negotiate long-term expansion plans against the vagaries of the economic climate.…

THE TYPICAL internal fraudster in financial services is male, aged 31-50. This emerges from PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PWC) 2014 Global Economic Crime Survey which found 45% of 1,330 respondents in financial services sectors from 79 countries had been hit by economic crime over the past year, with asset misappropriation the main problem.…

A NEW tax in Argentina is wreaking havoc for dealerships and consumers, and adding to the woes of manufacturers already grappling with onerous trade restrictions, including a new proposal to limit auto parts imports, part of the Peronist government’s protectionist economic policy.…

WHEN a company issues a motor vehicle recall, there are a number of short term and long term implications. The company must consider the costs of repairing the vehicles, any legal costs that might arise, and, of course, its reputation.

But Paul Nieuwenhuis, co-director of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research at Cardiff Business School in the UK, said companies often decide to cut costs when manufacturing a vehicle, calculating that the costs associated with issuing a recall as a result would be worth it.…

EVIDENCE is growing that Turkey’s knitting manufacturing industry is outsourcing an increasing volume of its production to contract knitters within Turkey, as it seeks to tackle a number of challenges faced by the sector.

Nesim Bensusan, president of Bensu AS, a knitwear manufacturer in Istanbul, told WTiN that in 2013 it reduced the number of its knitting machines from 40 to 20.…

TELCOS are facing a dilemma. The boom times of the past seven years – fuelled by the launch of smartphones – are drawing to a close. No longer are riches to be made by simply chasing new customers willing to buy smartphone-linked accounts.…

The food and drink industry has been advised to take special care that it is complying with the European Union (EU) chemical control system REACH, following a specialist briefing held at the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) HQ in Helsinki on March 6.…

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) scientific committee has also been considering the safety of nano-silver as an antimicrobial textile finishing chemical but it has sounded an alarm about potential health concerns. The EU’s Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks has noted studies indicating that “nanosilver exposure leads possibly to genotoxicity, changes in activity of the immune system and an accumulation of silver in spleen, liver and testes.”…

NATURAL and ‘halal’ cosmetics are making gradual inroads into the lucrative Gulf markets, which have some of the highest spending per capita on fragrances and cosmetics in the world. A handful of local companies and distributors are springing up to cater to the growing trend for natural or organic cosmetics, while the development of the ‘halal’ sector is actively being pushed by the Dubai government, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).…