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EU OMBUDSMAN STRESSES ACCOUNTANTS CAN SPARK HER INQUIRIES, AS WELL AS PRIVATE CITIZENS
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly has urged members of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) to remember that they are citizens too and can make complaints about maladministration, as well as their clients.
O’Reilly explained to Accounting & Business that as European Ombudsman since July 2013, she deals with complaints about maladministration in the EU institutions, bodies and agencies from any person, business or non-governmental organisation (NGO) in the EU.…
EUROPEAN DIRECTOR TRAINING VITAL TO SERVE ON A ‘FOREIGN’ BOARD
Significant European Union (EU) company law changes are set to add to the training challenge for non-executive directors who are working on boards outside their home country. The difficulties are compounded where flexibility for member states or companies to implement directives, regulations and recommendations adds local nuances to the know-how required to serve on a board in a jurisdiction with which a director is not previously familiar.…
DEALING WITH DIGITAL ESSENTIAL TO BOOST COSMETICS SALES, CONFERENCE HEARS
Delivering products that are present in everyday life to unknown markets across the globe, online sales are essential to boost the already booming EUR77 billion European cosmetics market, Cosmetics Europe director general John Chave told last week’s ‘Personal care in a changing world’ conference in Brussels (June 13-17).…
UK PERSONAL CARE SECTOR FACES MAJOR CHALLENGES AS BRITAIN VOTES TO QUIT EU
THE UK’s personal care and cosmetics industry faces uncertainty and potential future trade challenges with the European Union (EU) following the 52% to 48% June 23 referendum vote to leave the EU. “No longer being part of a single market for the free circulation of goods and no longer being a key player in the development of legislation governing those goods will be a major challenge to the cosmetics industry as it will be to all other sectors of the UK industry,” Chris Flower, director-general of the UK’s Cosmetic, Toiletry & Perfumery Association (CTPA), told Soap Perfumery and Cosmetics.…
US DEODORANT MARKET IN GOOD SHAPE
The US deodorant and antiperspirant market is in good shape, experiencing and projecting steady growth year after year in a largely saturated market where innovation is key to driving sales. Euromonitor International, the London-based market research firm, released a report in April 2016, which says the US deodorants market tends to grow “solidly” but “rarely dramatically”. …
EXPERTS DEBATE ADVANTAGES OF DIGITAL PRINTING AT MAJOR BRAZILIAN TEXTILE CONFERENCE
A DUTCH specialist in digital printing has told a major textile conference in Brazil that its textile finishing sector should embrace this technology, despite its higher costs. Rene Wolferink, application specialist at the Netherlands’ SPGPrints was speaking at the International Abit Congress, staged by the Brazilian Textile and Apparel Industry Association (ABIT – Associação Brasileira da Indústria Têxtil e de Confecção), staged in São Paulo on June 1 and 2.…
INDIAN GEOSYNTHETICS MARKET POISED FOR GROWTH, BUT PROMOTING DEMAND IS TOUGH TASK
THE INDIAN geosynthetics market will double in next four years even though domestic manufacturers are struggling to build awareness about their products, a major conference has been told. A ‘Second Global Geosynthetics Summit, Enhancing Application in the Infrastructure Sector’, held in New Delhi on May 19-20, was jointly organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the country’s national ministry of textiles.…
HONG KONG’S PLANS FOR NEW AIRPORT RUNWAY RUNNING INTO ROADBLOCKS
With earth movers set to move in on August 1, the Airport Authority Hong Kong (AAHK) plans to build an HK141.5 billion (USD18.2 billion) third airport runway at the city’s Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) on Chek Lap Kok island. It is set to be the most expensive infrastructure project in the city since the 1997 handover from the UK.…
BIOLUBRICANT INDUSTRY GROWS, BUT POTENTIAL AS YET REMAINS UNTAPPED
Global biolubricant sales should reach USD2.97 billion by 2020, according to US research firm MarketsandMarkets, with hydraulic fluids driving the sector. The US market is the fastest-growing region, while Europe retains the largest market share (around 45%).
However, although research and development projects have unveiled and unleashed the vast growth potential for this sector, the struggle remains to develop sufficient quantities of raw material to enable industry to replace fossil oil-based lubricants in a cost-effective manner.…
TEXTILE INDUSTRY TO SCRUTINISE UNPOPULAR COMMISSION CRITERIA ON ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS
The European textile industry has launched a consultation to examine long overdue criteria released by the European Commission last week (June 15) to determine which substances are endocrine disrupting (hormone changing) chemicals (EDCs) and hence controlled under European Union (EU) law.…