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TÖNNIES AND IDAVANG INVESTMENT PLANS COULD SIGNAL FUTURE FOREIGN MEAT INVESTMENT IN RUSSIA, SAY OFFICIALS
Global meat majors including Germany’s Tönnies Denmark’s Danish Idavang are planning to invest in major Russian projects – government officials say the scale of Russia’s 144 million market could be overcoming reluctance by overseas players to develop Russian operations because of its economic recession and sanctions.…
EBRD BANKER JAILED FOR TAKING USD3.5 MILLION IN US BRIBES
A banker with the London-based European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) has been jailed for six years by London’s Old Bailey Central Criminal Court of England and Wales on June 20 for taking USD3.5 million in bribes from a consultant, plus two years for money laundering to run concurrently.…
CHINA OPENS UP FOR COACHING, BUT PRACTICE STILL LARGELY FOCUSED ON MULTINATIONALS
China may have more coaches than ever, with the majority of them serving multinationals only, the expansion of the profession is still limited, a Shanghai conference has been told.
“China’s coaching industry will only take off when local companies embrace coaching, Garry Wang, CEO of the coaching service provider MindSpan, said at a two–day leadership coaching conference entitled ‘Leading into 2020’ held in Shanghai on June 22-23.…
NEW ETHIOPIA MAJOR AIR CARGO CENTRE OPENS THIS SUMMER
Ethiopia airlines, the largest cargo carrier in Africa, is close to completing its cargo terminal expansion as part of a major infrastructure upgrade at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport, serving the Ethiopian capital.
Ethiopian Airlines, with its fleet of two Boeing 757Fs and six Boeing 777Fs, requested the new facility to accommodate increased volume growth and transit traffic.…
AIRBUS SETS UP PANEL TO PROBE CONSULTANT BRIBE CHARGES
Aerospace giant Airbus has announced (Monday, May 22) that it has set up a high-level Independent Compliance Review Panel (ICRP) to probe self-reported bribery and corruption charges involving consultants hired to win British subsidies for export contracts. The panel, which Airbus said “will have access to all levels of the company,” is composed of France’s Noëlle Lenoir, a member of the Conseil d’Etat (France’s highest constitutional court) since 1984, former German finance minister Theo Waigel and British Conservative peer Lord Gold, all “well-versed in compliance monitoring of large corporations.”…
EUROPE’S MILK PRODUCTION REDUCTION MIGHT HAVE BEEN REALISED WITHOUT EU SUPPORT SCHEME, SAYS INDUSTRY
THE EUROPEAN Commission has not been shy about claiming that its intervention in 2016 and this year into the European Union (EU) dairy sector has helped stabilise prices and brought balance to the market. However, EU dairy associations are more sceptical and wonder whether demand and supply was already moving in the right direction.…
SOUTH KOREA AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS SHED ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT
While South Korea has not yet ratified the UN’s Paris Agreement dealing with greenhouse gas emissions, its important automobile industry has been making serious commitments to green practices, including the transition from solvent-based to waterborne coatings.
According to New Jersey, US-based coatings consulting firm Kusumgar, Nerlfi & Growney, the South Korean passenger car and light vehicle coating market involved supplies of 60,000 tonnes in 2016, and these are becoming increasingly environment-friendly: about one-quarter of basecoats sold are now waterborne.…
EU MEMBER STATES VOTE TO RETAIN EUROPEAN TYPE APPROVAL POWERS IN HANDS OF NATIONAL REGULATORS
European Union (EU) member states have pushed back against more centralised control of type approvals by the bloc’s executive European Commission in a vote yesterday (Monday, May 29) in Brussels. The EU Council of Ministers, which represents EU governments, instead approved a “general approach” of principles, which would beef up cooperation between national authorities – but not give the Commission more power.…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION ANNOUNCES FIVE INNOVATIVE GAS INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it is spending EUR17.3 million on five projects promoting innovative gas-related infrastructure projects in Europe. The money will come from the European Union’s (EU) Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), a funding programme designed to create economic growth, jobs and competitiveness through targeted infrastructure investment.…
EU REGULATORY ROUND UP – PAINTS AND COATINGS SELLERS FACE JUNE 1 EU LABELLING AND PACKAGING COMPLIANCE DEADLINE
EUROPEAN Union (EU) paint and coatings companies and their retailers have been warned products on sale from June 1 must be classified, labelled and packaged in line with the EU classification, labelling and packaging (CLP) regulation (1272/2008). If not, they will have to be reclassified, repackaged and labelled or withdrawn from the market, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has said, noting that this deadline “marks the end of the transitional period for labelling mixtures.”…