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BY PAUL COCHRANE

BANGLADESH’S knitwear sector is undergoing unprecedented growth: averaging 24% per year over the past 12 years, and an astonishing 45% in the first three months of this fiscal year, with exports projected to reach US$10 billion by 2011.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF

IT has been a devastating year for Italian hauliers. In the last 10 months, 8,000 mostly single-vehicle hauliers have left the industry according to Gianni Montalli, president of the National Transport Union (CAN FITA Unione Nazionale Imprese di Trasporto).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FRENCH attempts to get the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to sign up in principle to a farmer-friendly and potentially protectionist Common Agricultural Policy in the long-term have been blocked by Britain, Sweden and Latvia. France had spoken of "community preference": erecting fresh EU tariff barriers on food imports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN ALLIANCE between French and Spanish drinks producers is to share Euro 450,000 in marketing subsidies from the European Commission over three years. The money comes in Brussels’ latest announcement of marketing assistance to sell European Union (EU)-made drinks and food outside the EU.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

BANGLADESH’S clothing and ready made garment sector is undergoing unprecedented expansion, registering an average growth of 20% year on year, and with plans to be one of the top three exporters globally by 2013.

In the first four months of Bangladesh’s fiscal year, from July to September 2008, the sector reported 45% growth in exports of woven and knitwear to US$3.35 billion, according to the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exports Association (BGMEA).…

BY PHILIPPA JONES, DOMINIQUE PATTON and LUCY JONES

The growth in outsourcing within the clothing and textile sector worldwide has highlighted a key issue, and that is the relative merits of running an integrated company that handles basic production and design, or relying on a string of specialist suppliers to deliver the goods, from fibre supplies, to textile manufacture, design, clothing assembly and retail.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS 2009 dawns, the European Union’s (EU) renewable energy sector knows that it has truly entered the mainstream of EU utility markets, its growth being sanctioned by ambitious legislation approved before Christmas.

After more than a year of debates, the European Parliament and EU ministers have approved a new EU directive imposing mandatory national targets for the 27 member states regarding the portion of their gross final consumption of energy in 2020 coming from renewable sources.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EMERGENCY European Union (EU) subsidies totalling Euro 300 million for dairy farmers hit by this summer’s dip in prices have been divided amongst the EU’s 27 member states. The money has been allocated according to production (within EU quota limits) from April 2008-March 2009.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

IN today’s world of globalised and increasingly competitive markets Europe’s food and drink industries need enlightened regulation if they are to meet accepted international standards for safety, additives, labelling and environmental responsibility.

There can be too much of it of course.…

BY JAMES BURNS, PHILIPPA JONES, KARRYN MILLER and FRANCES WANG

IF anything would drive the cosmetics sector away from mineral oils into the arms of bio-based oils and fats suppliers, it is surely the high crude oil prices that punished buyers before they began to fall steeply in the summer.…