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INDONESIA’S BODY CARE SECTOR GROWS ON THE BACK GROWING POPULATION AND SURGING INCOME



INDONESIAN consumers are becoming increasingly brand-savvy as their incomes surge, driving up the country’s body care product market. As of 2015, this retail segment generated USD169.41 million in sales, and is expected to reach USD245.09 million by 2020, according to Ghina Romani, a researcher with the London-based market intelligence company Canadean.…

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INFANT FORMULA FAKES PROMPTS NEW CHINESE COUNTERFEIT FOOD ACTION



Infant formula was back in the news for wrong reasons again in China recently when cans of powder bearing fake labels for the Chinese Beingmate brand and Similac brands (owned by the US-based Abbott Laboratories) sparked nine arrests in April. Police have claimed 17,000 cans of infant formula were involved, being sold in the provinces of Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui and Hubei.…

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INDONESIA’S BODY CARE SECTOR GROWS ON THE BACK GROWING POPULATION AND SURGING INCOME



INDONESIAN consumers are becoming increasingly brand-savvy as their incomes surge, driving up the country’s body care product market. As of 2015, this retail segment generated USD169.41 million in sales, and is expected to reach USD245.09 million by 2020, according to Ghina Romani, a researcher with the London-based market intelligence company Canadean.…

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KEEPING COMPETITIVE KEY TO GROWTH IN MEAT MARKET, SAYS COPA-COGECA HEAD



How to remain competitive in the face of falling meat consumption is the main challenge facing the meat and livestock industry today, Pekka Pesonen, secretary general of European Union (EU) farmers’ organisation Copa-Cogeca, has told GlobalMeatNews.

In an exclusive interview held as the EU body launched its #livestockcounts #enjoyagrifood campaign, promoting quality European meat consumption, Pesonen said: “We must ensure the added value of eating high quality meat as part of a balanced diet is communicated effectively to the consumer.”…

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UNIVERSITIES MUST BETTER MEASURE REAL LEARNING PROGRESS, WUN FORUM TOLD



 

It is high time universities started to measure more what achieve in student learning, and less in enrolment, the Presidents’ Forum of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) has been told. The president of the Netherlands’ Maastricht University’s, Professor Jo Ritzen, referenced an American study in 2011 which found that many USA university and college students did not learn much at all.…

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DUTCH CONSUMERS TOLD TO EAT MORE VEGETABLES



 

CONSUMERS should eat more vegetables, but less meat and fish, according to new dietary advice issued on March 31 by the Netherlands Nutrition Centre Foundation (NNC – Stichting Voedingscentrum Nederland), the government’s food advisory body.

The key change is recommending a daily dose of 250 grammes (g) instead of 200g of vegetables.…

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EU MINISTERS BACK TOUGHENING SCHENGEN BORDER CHECKS OVER TERROR FEARS



 

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has agreed to back reinforcing checks of all persons entering or leaving the EU, including of EU citizens, to reduce the risk of visitors promoting terrorism.

“We have to determine whether they form a threat to our safety or not,” said Klaas Dijkhoff, the Netherlands’ minister for migration following a February 25 meeting of the EU council for justice and home affairs.…

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EU MINISTERS TELL COMMISSION TO OFFER ADDITIONAL HELP TO HARD-PRESSED PIGMEAT PRODUCERS



EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have told the European Commission to devise detailed assistance measures to help European pigmeat producers, following a debate at the EU Council of Ministers for agriculture yesterday (March 14).

A communiqué said that the Council and Commission had agreed to “take decisive actions without delay” building on the EUR500 million aid package for farmers approved last September (2015).…

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CENTRAL AMERICA MARKET REPORT



MEXICO and central America are often regarding as manufacturing centres for the USA, the world’s largest personal care product country. And while it remains true that brands take advantage of lower costs in these countries to make competitive exports, Mexico (population 122 million) and the seven countries of central America (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras and Panama – population 45 million) are significant markets in their own right.…

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INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY ROUND UP – EU CONFECTIONERS WARN OF EUROPEAN SUMMER SUGAR SHORTAGES



THE COMMITTEE of European Sugar Users (CIUS) has called on the European Union (EU) to take urgent action to prevent EU confectionery and sweet bakery manufacturers facing a sugar supply crunch this summer. In a strongly worded message, the industry group has said that duties and levies should not be imposed on supplies of beet and cane sugar and the EU’s cane sugar ‘CXL’ duty should be scrapped immediately.…

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