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BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

STANDFIRST

The Indian clothing sector is emerging from its traditional image as an outsourcing-hub image and establishing its own brands that sell modern design and high quality garments in the international market. A resurgent economy still growing during the current global economic downturn and the official encouragement of entrepreneurial freedom have brought forward talented designers to challenge established names in the business.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CLOSER trade relations between the European Union (EU) and oil-rich Iraq are being negotiated, with a round of talks being held last month (May) in Baghdad aimed at forging a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA). This would involve the creation of a special cooperation council and annual ministerial meetings to erase trade barriers – such deals are usually forged with eastern European neighbours of the EU.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

PAINT sales in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are forecast to fall by 25-30% this year, a remarkable change in fortunes from the years of double-digit growth when the country’s US$300 million coatings sector was one of the fastest growing in the world.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IF there is one marketing certainty for the next few decades, it is that virtual reality systems will increasingly be used to sell products and services, and that ultimately, traditional posters, radio, television and even Internet ads will take second place or be wiped out.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FINAL shape of the European Union’s (EU) third energy packaging and its varied options on unbundling has generated concern, especially amongst acolytes of full scale liberalisation. The debates over this legislation have pitted countries such as France, with a mercantilist approach that a borderless market is an opportunity for local, especially large, companies; and liberalisers such as the Dutch and the British seeing the union as a massive market in which the fittest thrive, from whatever country.…

BY MARTINA MARE?KOVÁ

V?RA Klime?ová, 33, a registered nurse at the University Hospital Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové, in eastern Bohemia, the Czech Republic, offers an insightful look at her country’s nursing profession.

Her hospital has a pleasant environment and even if it does not suffer from the same nursing shortages like many other hospitals in the country, its staff admits that the Czech healthcare system has serious flaws.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) begins its first coordinated enforcement checks of the REACH chemical control system, Europe’s top adhesives industry federation has stressed concerns about its potential uneven application country-to-country.

ECHA announced on April 30 it has launched ‘REACH-EN-FORCE-1’, a joint enforcement project with national inspectors checking pre-registrations, registrations and work on REACH safety data sheets.…

BY MARK ROWE, in London; KARRYN CARTELLE, in TOKYO; RUSSELL BERMAN, in Washington DC; and MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

INNOVATION in drinks packaging is more intense today than it has been for decades, with cutting edge innovation in intelligent materials, microchip integration and nanomaterials allowing designers to create boxes, bottles, cans and sacks that they could not dream of before.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, ALAN OSBORN, DAVID HAWORTH, RUSSELL BERMAN, MARK GODFREY and GAVIN BLAIR

INTRODUCTION

WHILE the drinks industry is undoubtedly an important sector in the global economy, the honest truth is that there are bigger players in town: the IT sector, steel making, and food, to name a handful.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THERE is an increasing body of law associated with money laundering regulations worldwide and where there is law, there is – of course – lawyers. So to what extent is an anti-money laundering cadre of legal specialists emerging around the world.…