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BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE MULTI-billion dollar beauty market in the Middle East’s Gulf countries is back on an upward trend, thanks to renewed economic growth as this rich region, with avid consumers start spending again. Demand for cosmetics and personal care products are being driven by high disposable incomes, new sales channels and a growing lifestyle trend among both men and women in terms of plastic surgery, personal fitness and body care.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

STIFF competition both domestically and abroad, paired with mature markets in western economies, explain lacklustre first half financial figures from mobile telecommunications manufacturers and from telecoms equipment vendors, analysts say.

Selected results for H1 2011 illustrate what happens when manufacturers fall behind in introducing competitive mobile phones.…

BY MICHAEL KOSMIDES, IN ATHENS

A spectre is haunting Europe: the spectre of a possible Greek Euro exit and default. GrExit, as it has been termed, could have catastrophic repercussions for European and possibly the global economy or it could provide some kind of solution for the troubled Eurozone and the heavily indebted country.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

SAUDI Arabia’s failure to secure a wide-ranging atomic energy treaty with the USA, continues to push the oil-rich country into the arms of other nuclear suiters, experts on the kingdom have told World Nuclear News. The Saudis plan is to invest USD112 billion over the next 20 years to build 16 nuclear power plants (NPPs) to offset rising domestic energy demand and retain its position as a leading hydrocarbons exporter.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF

THE growth of data revenues and emerging markets contrasted with lacklustre domestic business, particularly in southern Europe, have dominated latest financial figures from the EU’s ‘big five’ telcos – Telecom Italia, Telefónica, France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone.…

BY MARK GODFREY

ANYONE who has eaten croissants and Danish-style pastries smothered with mayonnaise, chopped sausages and pork floss will appreciate that Beijing bakeries have a style all of their own. Yet the unorthodox approach is popular with local consumers, judging by how bakery chains are growing here: aside from locally-owned chains such as Holiland and Weiduomei and there has been an influx of regional chains, for instance Kiss n Bake from Taiwan and Singapore’s BreadTalk.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

BETWEEN rising costs for raw materials and a global push towards more environmentally-friendly production, label converters and equipment manufacturers are becoming increasingly focused on getting things done right the first time; and getting them done quickly, at that.…

BY AUDREY STUART

Number of French smokers rise, but tobacco sales stagnate

Government efforts to stop people smoking are partly working – smokers are consuming fewer cigarettes per day. However, the number of smokers in France is growing, despite price rises and new pictoral health warnings.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

FRANCE, due to its vast array of nuclear reactors and wide experimentation with alternative energy, is one of the lowest carbon emitters in the world. It is perhaps due to the success of nuclear power, though, that the country has not – until recent years – seriously considered developing carbon sequestration and storage (CCS) technologies.…

BY WANG FANGQING

AS MULTINATIONAL cosmetics companies continue to dominate the vast, multi-tiered personal care market in China, more Chinese companies are turning to Chinese traditional medicine (TCM)-based products, to gain niche market share.

This past July, Hong Kong-based pharmaceutical company Qilike Medicine Group upgraded its business-to-consumer (B2C) website – which sells acne treatment product Deefur, making it look more sophisticated to attract mainland Chinese consumers.…