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INDUSTRY WELCOMES COMMISSION’S TESTS TO STOP DUAL QUALITY FOOD PRODUCT SALES
THE EUROPEAN food industry is supporting the European Commission’s bid to ensure food brands do not offer variable quality versions of the same product in different parts of the European Union (EU). Indeed, it is backing the introduction by the EU executive of new testing methods for regulators, that are due to be rolled out in April.…
INDUSTRY WELCOMES COMMISSION’S TESTS TO CURB DUAL QUALITY FOOD PRODUCT SALES
THE EUROPEAN confectionery industry will later this year face hard evidence about the veracity of claims that certain brands sell lower quality products in eastern Europe than they do in the richer west. These claims – dismissed by many manufacturers as urban myths – are widely believed in eastern Europe, promoting the European Commission to act and set up a testing system.…
NUMBER OF WOMEN ON MIDDLE EAST BOARDS STILL LOW, DESPITE ENCOURAGEMENT FROM SOME GOVERNMENTS
Most organisations in the Middle East today acknowledge the importance of gender diversity, yet the current number of females on boards does not reflect this, according to participants at a recent networking breakfast in Dubai, hosted by ACCA.
An important reason for this is the self-perception of women, who feel that they lack the experience to be a board member, according to research from Hawkamah, the Institute for Corporate Governance at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), whose CEO Dr Ashraf Gamal El Din addressed the meeting.…
ACCA-QUALIFIED CARIBBEAN AIRLINE BOSS STEERS HER COMPANY TOWARDS RECOVERY FROM MAJOR HURRICANE LOSSES
RUNNING a complex international air travel business that recovering from 2017’s devastating hurricane season, Caribbean airline boss Julie Reifer-Jones is having to draw on her near three decades’ experience in senior financial management.
Immaculately presented, in killer heels, Reifer-Jones FCCA is not just the first female CEO of Antigua-based airline LIAT, she is the only female CEO of any airline in the Caribbean.…
ECHA WARNS THAT UK CHEMICAL FIRMS SUPPLYING EUROPEAN AUTO SECTOR MAY SUFFER BECAUSE OF BREXIT
THE EUROPEAN Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has warned British paint, coatings, plastics, related chemical ingredients and other chemical companies supplying the continental European auto sector may struggle to keep their business, should the UK push ahead with quitting the European Union (EU) as planned, on March 29, 2019.…
SOUTH AFRICAN PAINT AND COATINGS SECTOR ANTICIPATES ROBUST GROWTH, DESPITE SOME REGULATORY AND INGREDIENT CHALLENGES
SOUTH Africa’s paints and coatings market will grow a cumulative 40% to South African rand ZAR9.77 billion (USD823 million) between 2016 and 2021, driven by continued construction and urbanisation, according to new figures.
Statistics supplied by market researcher Euromonitor International have forecasted that the country’s home paints market will grow from ZAR3.48 billion (USD293.3 million) to ZAR4.88 billion (USD411.5 million) during this five-year period.…
SINGAPORE NEEDS TO COMBINE ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE WITH NEW TECH TO CREATE EFFICIENCIES THAT EASE LABOUR SHORTAGES
AMIDST warnings from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the country’s central bank, of a “demographic trilemma” facing the wealthy city state’s ageing workers, employers say the answer lies in creating “ageless workplaces” led by transformational changes.
An ageing population coupled with a low birth rate is set to slow down workforce growth in Singapore from 3.3% per year between 2010 and 2015, to about 1% annually from now until mid-2020s, Singapore National Employers Federation director, planning, research and information, Chua Ker Sin, told People Management.…
MINERALS SECTOR NEEDS TO BURNISH COMMUNITY REPUTATION AS EXPLORATION INVESTMENT GROWS
INDUSTRIAL minerals companies need to better manage their communications in an increasingly interconnected world, the CEO of Brazil-based Nexa Resources S.A. told this year’s Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention.
In comments echoed by Canadian colleagues, Tito Martins, said he felt that the industry must change the way it engages with an expanding number of potential partners, from local communities and environmentalists, as well as regulators and financiers.…
UK RURAL LAND MARKET SLOWS DOWN AFTER ALMOST 150% RISE OVER DECADE
THE BULL run in the British rural land market is over, or at least has slowed to a trot. After rising by 149% over the 10 years to 2016, research by the property consultancy Carter Jonas indicates that that the value of British (UK, excluding Northern Ireland) farmland fell by more than 8% last year.…
NEW TAX A DAMPENER ON MIDDLE EAST PERSONAL CARE PRODUCT SALES
CONSUMERS do not like sales tax, and they are particularly sensitive to tax-based price increases when new taxes are introduced. So, it is maybe no surprise that personal care product sales in the Middle East have been dampened by the introduction of value added tax (VAT) in both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in January 2018, inflating beauty product prices.…