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EBRD AND WORLD BANK HELP EGYPT BOOST GAS HANDLING CAPACITY
SIGNIFICANT improvements to Egypt’s capacity to import liquefied gas are anticipated after the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development and the World Bank announced financing for hydrocarbon storage and bunkering company Sonker. The international financiers are to lend USD341 to Sonker, with the EBRD is lending USD94 million, the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) ending USD92 million and USD52.5 million being leveraged from other private investors.…
ESQUEL PROMOTES EXCELLENCE IN CHINESE SEA ISLAND COTTON PRODUCTION
The Hong Kong-based Esquel Group, the major global high-end shirt supplier, is making progress in a research programme to develop a sustainable Chinese supply of sea island cotton, an extra-long staple (ELS) cotton, in Xinjiang.
This autonomous territory in north-west China is a key cotton production centre for China, and a recent scientific conference in Urumqi, the capital city of Xinjiang, where Esquel has a 5,500-acre cotton field, discussed the latest key findings and challenges.…
OUTSOURCING COUNTRIES KEEN TO USE OR IMPROVE ON EU GSP+ TRADE ACCESS STATUS
SPECIAL trade access to developed countries is always a boon to emerging market suppliers, and the European Union’s (EU) GSP+ system is especially sought after, and – noted a recent European Commission report – widely utilised.
GSP+ suspends EU duties on 66% of EU tariff lines, while for standard GSP, these same duties are merely reduced.…
NEW EU RESEARCH PROJECT DEVELOPS NEW NON-ANIMAL TESTS FOR COSMETIC AND OTHER CONSUMER PRODUCTS
A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-backed project is developing a new testing strategy to assess chemical safety in consumer products, including for cosmetics and personal care lines, without using animals in experiments.
The EU-ToxRisk project, which has a budget of around EUR30 million, is being coordinated in the Netherlands by Leiden University.…
SECONDARY PACKAGERS COMBINE OFFER ALLURING GLIMPSES OF PRODUCTS TO ATTRACT ONLINE SALES
Boxes are not known for their excitement, but personal care product companies are making secondary packaging more alluring by designing them to give consumers an enticing glimpse of the goods inside. They are also using their collective imaginations to create aesthetically desirable mixes of different materials and textures, maybe combining these with visually arresting spatial design.…
COSMETICS MARKET BOOMING IN MOROCCO, WITH A FOCUS LOCAL PRODUCTS
Considered a key player within the cosmetics market in north Africa, Morocco’s colour cosmetics sales holds a market estimated between MAD800 million (Moroccan dirhams) and MAD1 billion (between USD81 and USD102 million). This is according to London-based market research firm Euromonitor International’s Moroccan marketing analyst Houda Bennani.…
BRAZIL BECOMES WORLD’S LARGEST SUN CARE PRODUCT MARKET
BRAZIL may have emerged the world’s largest sun care market in terms of sales in 2014, pushing past the United States (US), according to market researchers Euromonitor International. And the country may retain its suncare crown – sales are expected to continue growing between 2014 and 2019, albeit at a slower pace compared its growth between 2009 and 2014. …
SPAIN FAKE SHAMPOO CRACKDOWN SHINES SPOTLIGHT ON EXTENT OF ILLICIT INDUSTRY
A recent crackdown on a counterfeit shampoo factory in Spain has shone a spotlight on a burgeoning and problematic underground illicit industry, operating across Europe with links to criminal gangs, money-laundering and terrorism.
A 2013 study by European Union’s (EU) trademarks and designs agency the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) says counterfeit cosmetics and perfumes in the EU netted EUR4.7 billion (USD 5.2 billion) in sales on average between 2008 and 2011.…
BUILDING BOOM SAVES SOUTH KOREAN COATINGS SECTOR AS AUTO AND SHIP SECTORS SLUMP
Considering the ongoing doldrums within the global economy, 2015 was not a bad year for South Korea’s coatings manufacturers. The sector’s cautiously positive sentiment mainly survived because Korean coatings consumption has been boosted by a domestic construction boom that made up for lacklustre demand from the east Asian export powerhouse’s carmakers and shipbuilders.…
OECD SAYS AUTO MANUFACTURERS CAN PROFIT FROM FOLLOWING TOUGHER GREEN REGULATIONS
Automotive industry experts seem to agree – past concerns that tough environmental laws could force auto-manufacturing from a green jurisdiction to a country or region with laxer controls, no longer see to apply.
In doing so, industry specialists are backing the conclusions of a new report from the world’s largest think-tank, the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD), which said following tighter environmental rules can be good business.…