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RUSSIAN clothing and textile consumers are increasingly choosing to buy products with natural materials and brighter colours, grassroots retail managers in Moscow have told WTiN.com.

Speaking from the major wholesale and retail complex ‘Textile Profy Moscow’, which commands 120,000 square metres in selling areas, its managers said Russian consumers are increasingly eschewing subtle and muted colours.…

EASTERN and central European food consumers have often complained that international branded food tastes worse in their countries than in western Europe – even when comparing the same brands in similar packaging.

But the question is whether these grumbles are effectively urban myths – or if there is evidence suggesting that these differences are real.…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) lawmakers are calling for a seismic shift towards low carbon mobility in the auto sector, including requiring manufacturers to meet a 25% minimum fleet quota for electric vehicles by 2025 and a sales ban on cars emitting carbon dioxide (CO2) by 2035. …

The European Union (EU) and China have struck a geographical indications deal involving both parties preventing the names of 100 traditional food and drink items from either jurisdiction being used by manufacturers not based in their historic production regions or following standardised production techniques.…

THE UK’s exit from the European Union (EU), scheduled April 1, 2019, will be a real challenge for the European cosmetics industry, John Chave, director-general for EU industry body Cosmetics Europe told Soap Perfumery & Cosmetics in an exclusive interview on the sidelines of the key European Cosmetics Week 2017 event in Brussels.…

GLOBAL knitwear outsourcing centre Bangladesh is expected to soon ratify the emerging market D-8 PTA preferential trade agreement, newspaper reports in Dhaka say, indicating the government may have loosened demands over rules of origin. Bangladesh has been pushing for its manufacturers to gain privileged access to D-8 markets (Iran, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Nigeria and Turkey, as well as Egypt if it also ultimately ratifies), if 30% of value in a product is created within Bangladesh.…

CORRUPTION issues continue to challenge the European Union (EU) as it seeks to renew its popularity amidst the start of the Brexit negotiations and the rule of a French President in Emmanuel Macron who says EU must reform, root-and-branch, or die.…

THE ASSESSMENT of whether boards are effective and if members need to be replaced is never an easy decision, and whether guidance on this process should be detailed or broader in scope can be a hotly debated subject. A taste of such discussions can be seen in the response of the European Confederation of Directors’ Associations (ecoDa) to two closely-linked European Banking Authority (EBA) guidelines on board assessment and internal governance for financial institutions, that will take effect in the European Union in mid-2017.…

Italian state-controlled oil and gas producer ENI has cemented its role as a major gas player in Mozambique, after further defining in 2017 the scope of its Coral FLNG (floating liquified natural gas) project in this southern African country. However, doubts are emerging that ENI will actually deliver significant volumes of Mozambique’s huge gas reserves to Italy, and consequentially the rest of Europe, as an alternative and more secure source of natural gas.…

GLOBAL knitwear outsourcing centre Bangladesh is expected to soon ratify the emerging market D-8 PTA preferential trade agreement, newspaper reports in Dhaka say, indicating the government may have loosened demands over rules of origin. Bangladesh has been pushing for its manufacturers to gain privileged access to D-8 markets (Iran, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Nigeria and Turkey, as well as Egypt if it also ultimately ratifies), if 30% of value in a product is created within Bangladesh.…