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BY JONATHAN DYSON, IN LIMA

HIGHER value cigarette brands are gaining favour in Peru’s fast growing economy even as its tobacco industry tries to counter a trend back towards illicit purchases of single sticks, for which it blames tax and anti-tobacco legislation.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, IN LONDON; AND KHRISTINA NARIZHNAYA, IN MOSCOW

A DEAL agreed between the 27 member countries of the European Union (EU) and Russia to help safeguard European sales of auto parts to that country is set to underpin the assault by the European motor industry on one of its biggest export markets targets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

UPDATED data released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) has highlighted the rarity of foreign bribery convictions worldwide. Bringing records from 1999 up to December 2011, the OECD reported that globally just 151 people and 42 organisations (including companies) had been found guilty of this offence in the past 12 years.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

IT won’t be certain for some time yet but signs are growing that the European Union’s (EU) massive and complex REACH policy to enforce the registration and control of chemicals is proving nothing like the disaster that the cosmetics and detergents industries might once have feared.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

THE LAST decade has seen significant developments, initiatives and legislation towards integrating biofuels and other environmentally-friendly fuel alternatives into transport and the aviation sector. But while renewable fuels are projected to have a significant stake in fuelling aircrafts going into the future, traditional kerosene jet fuel still maintains a tight grip on the industry.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

INTERNATIONAL travel in the last decade has become exponentially more secure, with countries all around the globe having reformed their systems to cope with transnational crime in a post-9/11 world – largely, through the increased collection, processing and legislation of passenger information.…

BY KITTY SO

THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the takeover of a new Danish meat supply cooperative Daka by Germany-based SARIA Bio-Industries AG & Co. KG and Denmark-based Danish Crown A/S. In its formal decision backing the establishment of a new Daka joint venture, the Commission said it had "decided not to oppose the notified operation", ruling the deal "would not significantly impede effective competition" in the European Union (EU) meat sector.…

BY SHEENA ROSSITER, IN SÃO PAULO

WITH Europe and north America’s economies continuing to perform poorly, the importance of large emerging markets as growth areas for the international nonwovens sector is growing, especially as their middle-classes expand. Brazil is a case in point, middle class demand for nonwoven consumer products is helping attract the foreign direct investment required to develop new plants and distribution networks.…

BY ROBERT STOKES IN MÁLAGA

THIS year I have abandoned my premium brand sun screen in favour of a Deliplus private label product sold by the Spanish supermarket group Mercadona for around EUR 5.00, saving around EUR 12.00 into the bargain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

The European Commission and Greenland have signed a letter of intent that could increase the role of European Union (EU) metal and mining companies in the development of Greenlandic metal and other mineral resources.

The autonomous north Atlantic territory has a wealth of deposits being explored.…