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DRINKS PRODUCTION AND MARKETING RULES SEEK TO BALANCE PROTECTING EXCELLENCE WITH LIBERATING COMMERCE
BY ALAN OSBORN
INTRODUCTION
About 10 years ago the American distiller JB Wagoner decided to market a fiery liquor made from the cactus-like agave plants growing in the hills on his estate at Temecula in California. He called it "temequila." It soon became known as "the American tequila," proving indistinguishable in taste, texture and effect from the well-known Mexican drink.…
PAINT COMPANIES DEVELOP THOUSANDS OF COLOUR VARIANTS TO MATCH DIVERSE WORLDWIDE TASTES
BY MARK ROWE
THE PSYCHOLOGY of colour has fascinated philosophers and scientists down the ages, so it is perhaps unsurprising that the world’s paint companies devote much of their time to working out why consumers prefer certain colours for certain everyday items – and why these tastes vary so much across the world.…
NORTH AMERICAN MEN'S DEMAND FOR COSMETICS HAS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT
BY MONICA DOBIE, JULIAN RYALL, and PHILIPPA JONES
COMPARED to their counterparts in Europe and Asia, North American men are at the bottom of the league tables for using beauty products, leaving male cosmetics marketers with both a lot of work, and a lot opportunity.…
RAPEX REPORTS MORE SAFETY BANS OF COSMETIC PRODUCTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) product safety network RAPEX has reported a series of EU market withdrawals of personal care products because they contain substances banned under the EU cosmetics directive:
*Estonia banned two lines of Turkish nail polish Mirra lux for including dibutyl phthalate (6.17% by weight);
*Ivory Coast-made whitening cream Lightening Beauty Crème has been withdrawn from the Irish market for containing hydroquinone (3.8%); and
*Portugal has blocked the sale of Italian hair colouring cream Color Contrast for containing the banned substance m-phenylenediamine.…
IRISH MEAT DEAL ILLEGAL UNDER COMPETITION LAW SAYS ECJ JUDGE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ADVOCATE general of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has declared that an Irish initiative designed to reduce over-capacity in Ireland’s beef processing sector breaks European Union (EU) competition law.
In a formal opinion, Verica Trstenjak found illegal the operation of Ireland’s Beef Industry Development Society Ltd (BIDS), which was formed in 2002 to unite most of the country’s processors – accounting for 93% of beef sold in the country.…
ECJ JUDGES CENSURE IRELAND OVER DIRTY WATER EMISSIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has censured Ireland for breaking the urban waste water directive by discharging dirty sewage in the communities of Bray, Howth, Letterkenny, Shanganagh, Sligo, and Tramore. Judges agreed with the European Commission that the Irish government should have subjected this waste water to secondary treatment.…
AS CONSOLIDATION LOOMS FOR CHINA'S DAIRY SECTOR COMPETITION IS INTENSIFYING
BY MARK GODFREY
A BILLION people watched recently when China’s top two dairy companies Yili and Mengniu took the prime slot Chinese television advertisements immediately after the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics Games. Being onscreen for the most important TV event in modern Chinese history is a sign of how fast dairy has grown in a land accustomed to soy milk.…
L'ORÉAL WINS PARALLEL TRADING CASE AT EFTA COURT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) product safety network RAPEX has reported a series of EU market withdrawals of personal care products because they contain substances banned under the EU cosmetics directive:
*Estonia banned two lines of Turkish nail polish Mirra lux for including dibutyl phthalate (6.17% by weight);
*Ivory Coast-made whitening cream Lightening Beauty Crème has been withdrawn from the Irish market for containing hydroquinone (3.8%); and
*Portugal has blocked the sale of Italian hair colouring cream Color Contrast for containing the banned substance m-phenylenediamine.…
ECJ JUDGES CENSURE IRELAND OVER DIRTY WATER EMISSIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has censured Ireland for breaking the urban waste water directive by discharging dirty sewage in the communities of Bray, Howth, Letterkenny, Shanganagh, Sligo, and Tramore. Judges agreed with the European Commission that the Irish government should have subjected this waste water to secondary treatment.…
IRELAND'S EU FISHING SUBSIDIES REDUCED FOR 2007-13
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has unveiled its operational programme for the European Fisheries Fund in Ireland, announcing that the European Union (EU) would be spending Euro 42.2 million on the Irish fishing sector from 2007-13. The EU spending is a significant reduction from the Euro 70 million spent in Ireland under the old Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance from 2000-2006.…