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THE STABLE north African kingdom of Morocco is pushing ahead with plans to grow its automotive manufacturing industry, creating a lower-cost hub for supplying nearby wealthy European markets. Indeed, with the Strait of Gibraltar crossing between Morocco and Spain being just over eight miles wide, the Morocco government’s 2014-2020 industrial acceleration policy is clear – it wants to grow its auto sector fast.…

Deposit schemes will not increase drinks packaging reuse or recycling rates, Coca-Cola Enterprises vice-president public affairs, Europe, Hans van Bochove Coca-Cola Enterprises vice-president public affairs, Europe, Hans van Bochove told a Brussels conference last week. His view was backed by Peter Sundt, secretary general of the European Association of Plastics Recycling and Recovery Organisations (EPRO) and Eamonn Bates, Clean Europe Network secretary general.…

Laboratory-grown meat has moved from a distant sci-fi concept to a realistic idea that could be commercialised and mainstream in just a few years, according to industry experts. “We aim to commercialise in four to five years, and it will become mainstream in the two to three years after that,” Prof Mark J Post, professor and chair of physiology at Maastricht University, in the Netherlands, told just-food.…

Good training is essential in the fight against fraud, stressed speakers at the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners’ (ACFE) 2016 European Fraud Conference. Indeed, with the event being held opposite Brussels airport, the value of interpreting criminal intelligence of any kind was made crystal clear by Islamic terrorists bombing its bookings hall.…

With the desire for packaging beauty being an integral part of north-east Asian consumer culture, it is perhaps no surprise that Japanese and South Korean cosmetics companies have led the way with compacts – whose popularity is spreading worldwide.

The ultimate combination of utility and design, when Japanese cosmetics companies start developing a new compact product, its packaging needs to meet two basic requirements: it has to delight the user with the way it looks, and it must be easy and convenient to use.…

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.…

THE EUROPEAN Association of Sugar Pro­ducers (CEFS) and the European Federation of Trade Unions in the Food, Agriculture and Tourism sectors (EFFAT) have called for the European Union (EU) to push for a global agreement ending all subsidies and other trade-distorting policies affecting the sugar sector.…

Almost certainly the vast majority of UK-based Japanese-owned businesses want Britain to stay in the European Union (EU) after the in-out EU membership referendum planned for June 23.

However, few companies have stated this publicly and no Japanese company has yet said it would move elsewhere if there was a vote to leave.…

Non-financial reporting requirements that come into force throughout the European Union (EU) at the end of the year are as crucial as the annual financial report. This was the message to emerge from a Brussels conference on ‘Non-Financial Reporting: The impact on the relationship between Boards and Auditors’ that the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) co-hosted with the European Confederation of Directors’ Associations (ecoDa) and the European Confederation of Institutes of Internal Auditing (ECIIA) on March 15.…

THE EUROPEAN Medicines Agency (EMA) has established an expert task force on the Zika virus to advise pharmacos on securing market approval for new drugs. With no treatments currently approved and none undergoing clinical studies, EMA wants Zika medicines developed quickly.…