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BURBERRY EYES CASHMERE QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS IN AFGHANISTAN TO BOOST SUPPLIES
DESPITE being the world’s third largest cashmere producer next to China and Mongolia, according to research from the University of California, Davis, Afghanistan’s cashmere industry is heavily underutilised, according to industry experts.
Afghanistan in the previous decade (to 2010) produced around 7% of the world’s raw (greasy) cashmere, after China (72%) and Mongolia (18%) say UC Davis researchers (see https://afghanag.ucdavis.edu/other-topics/files/market/chasmere-value-chain.pdf).…
ASIA PACIFIC’S DIVERSE NONWOVENS PRODUCTION GROWS SUSTAINABLY, AS LOCAL DEMAND DIVERSIFIES
THE ASIA-Pacific region has many of the elements needed to create a burgeoning nonwovens market and industry. It has growing middle class consumption of basis personal products and continued manufacturing and infrastructural expansion for industrial nonwovens. These items can be supplied my new mass-production in emerging market countries and niche lines from the region’s richer developed industrial economies.…
KENYAN SENATE MOVING FORWARD ON LAW TELLING MINERALS FIRMS TO HIRE AND SOURCE GOODS LOCALLY
The Kenyan Senate is consulting on a proposed law that will commit international mining companies to hire Kenya-based staff and source supplies locally. The Local Content Bill (see http://kenyalaw.org/kl/fileadmin/pdfdownloads/bills/2016/LocalContentBill_2016.pdf) has been reintroduced formally to the Senate this year – an original text had been tabled in 2016, but debates were interrupted by Kenya’s 2017 general election.…
FRENCH PAINT MARKET SET TO PROFIT FROM BUOYANT CONSTRUCTION AND HOME IMPROVEMENT MARKET
THE FRENCH paint and varnishes industry saw sales decline for the third consecutive year in 2016, contracting by 1.6% year-on-year to EUR2.9 billion, according to market research company Euromonitor International. It believes, however, that business should pick up in the coming years due to rising construction of homes.…
AML RESOURCES SHOULD BE BETTER TARGETED TO FIGHT LOOMING CAPACITY CRISIS, EXPERTS ADVISE
CONCERNS continue to grow about capacity in anti-money laundering/combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) systems, with managers being urged to take advantage of the AML profession’s openness to change.
A Dow Jones/ACAMS (Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists) global anti-money laundering survey focusing on retail and commercial banking, private banking/wealth management and investment banking, released April 2016, showed 60% of respondents cited increased regulatory expectations as the greatest AML compliance challenge (http://files.acams.org/pdfs/2016/Dow_Jones_and_ACAMS_Global_Anti-Money_Laundering_Survey_Results_2016.pdf…
US CLOTHING INDUSTRY MEETS IN WASHINGTON TO DISCUSS RESISTING TRUMP TARIFFS
THE USA’s clothing industry has met in Washington DC to plot tactics designed to push the Trump administration away from a protectionist policy that it regards as potentially damaging for brands, retailers and their consumers.
A trade symposium staged last Thursday (July 12) by the United States Fashion Industry Association (USFIA) united clothing sector executives, compliance chiefs, customs specialists and government affairs managers.…
NAVBLUE WORKS WITH BOGOTÁ AIRPORT TO RESHAPE AIR SPACE MANAGEMENT AND BOOT CAPACITY
AN INNOVATIVE air traffic management switch from land-based ATC services using classic vectoring, to a performance-based navigation (PBN) arrangement using airliner satellite positioning and RNP-AR (required navigation performance – authorisation required) has dramatically increased the traffic capacity of El Dorado International Airport, Bogotá, Colombia.…
TWO TOP TRADERS CONVICTED IN EURIBOR RIGGING CASE
Two senior bank traders have been convicted for their role in manipulating the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (EURIBOR), the benchmark to set global interest rates, between 2005 and 2009. Following a six-year investigation and prosecution by the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), ex-Barclays banker, Phillipe Moryoussef, and former Principal Trader at Deutsche Bank, Christian Bittar, were convicted of rigging EURIBOR by filing false submissions to change the published rate.…
NORDIC REGION SHOWS GROWTH IN PREMIUM NATURAL BEAUTY PRODUCTS
THE NORDIC region is associated with cleanliness, environmentalism and healthy living, so maybe it is no big surprise that sales of natural organic personal care products are strengthening in these markets. So engrained is this trend, say experts, colour cosmetics lines are increasingly being developed as natural organic products.…
INNOVATION IN PERSONAL CARE PRODUCT SECURITY GETS SOPHISTICATED – BUT ALSO EXPENSIVE
IN the USA alone, USD1.4 billion in counterfeit consumer products were seized in 2016 by the United States Customs and Border Protection, including 2,000 shipments of counterfeit cosmetics products. This, according to a note from USA-based Clarkston Consulting, cost the beauty industry at least USD75 million, which said: “Counterfeiting of consumer products remains on the rise” – see https://clarkstonconsulting.com/insights/counterfeit-cosmetics/counterfeit.…