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The European Union’s garment and textile industry pushed this Thursday, October 13, in Oporto, Portugal, for global rules to fight climate change to ensure fair competitiveness, with more international harmonisation of sustainable standards.
These wishes were expressed in the conference ‘Sustainability meets Competitiveness – how to square the circle?’,…

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has touched the lives of all Ukrainians, destroying businesses, livelihoods and families, with accountants and practices not escaping the burden of the war. While some accountants have fled, and even abandoned the profession, those who remain must contend with a complicated landscape of jurisdictional, tax and staffing woes.…

The Spanish can market and industry, which has developed an international reputation for its dominant fish canning sector, is increasingly innovative, driven by contemporary trends in its beverage sector, with sales of canned water and wine joining a promising market which has traditionally been based on beer.…

The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) has started detailed work on helping smaller companies apply its draft standards on general disclosures and climate reporting. A board meeting in Frankfurt, Germany, “discussed how it could give more consideration to the range of capabilities and preparedness of entities around the world to apply the proposals…”, said its minutes.…

Concern about rapid increases in consumption in heated tobacco and the European Union’s (EU) stated ambition to reduce all tobacco use by 2040 so that less than 5% of the 27 member countries’ 447 million people is pushing EU policymakers towards tightening vaping and e-cigarette controls.…

Continuing to fight supply-chain snarls, material shortages, inflation woes, and a stubborn pandemic, the US paint and coatings industry produced 1.3 billion American gallons (4.9 billion litres) valued at USD27.2 billion (US dollars) in 2021.

That is according to The ChemQuest Group, a global specialty chemicals and materials consulting service based in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, which said this production was an increase of just 0.1% in volume and 8.6% in value over the previous year.…

Professional money launderers are exceedingly hard to catch, and – if convicted – are invariably replaced by other pros waiting in the wings. What more can be done to go after professional launderers?

Going by the estimates of the global scale of money laundering, and the low seizure rates – by some accounts 1%, by others (such as New Zealand AML specialist Ron Pol) less than 0.1% – efforts to curb the amounts of dirty money sloshing around the financial system are proving ineffective.…

India’s nascent wine market is dominated by domestic brands trying to overcome low awareness about wine among Indian consumers, while dealing with high taxation and cumbersome trading regulations. However, these wine companies are confident of achieving high sales growth in the short and medium term, with market projections looking healthy, even if they vary widely.…

The benefits to knitwear manufacturers of investing in sophisticated machinery and software may be undeniable, but when an industry can call on a large pool of cheap human labour, companies need to see clear financial benefits from acquiring such tech.

This dilemma is particularly stark in south Asia textile and clothing outsourcing centres, where labour can be particularly low cost.…

The Chinese are eating more cheese than ever.

China’s cheese market size reached Chinese Yuan Renminbi CNY/RMB6.32 billion in 2020 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 8% during 2020-2025, according to a 2022 report from GlobalData, the market researcher that owns Just Food.…