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BY ALAN OSBORN

ANDREA Perrone talks of when he was a child, and his father – a lawyer and the CEO of Brioni Retail – used to bring home customers from South America for lunch or dinner at the family’s residence in Abruzzi, Italy.…

BY GEORGE STONE

AIRPORTS Company South Africa (ACSA) will be responsible for handling 450,000 international arrivals when the country hosts the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) 2010 World Cup next summer.

The biggest-ever sporting event on African soil starts on June 11 next year and will run to July 11 with games stretching from the former township of Soweto in Johannesburg to the natural beauty of Cape Town.…

BY PHILIPPA JONES, LEE ADENDOORF, E. BLAKE BERRY, SYMON ROSS, MONICA DOBIE and KEITH NUTHALL

CONSUMER issues have been a key focus of European Union (EU) initiatives regarding utilities of late. The European Commission’s Citizens’ Energy Forum has been busy, recently focusing on improving billing practices, promoting good practice and calling for "clearer, more understandable and accurate bills".…

BY EMMA JACKSON

MEDICINE is meant to treat disease, kill viruses and save lives, but the chemicals used to make pharmaceuticals can sometimes do more harm than good – when they are used to make illicit narcotics and psychotropic drugs.

Illicit drug makers have long targeted the global pharmaceutical industry to source their products’ ingredients to help manufacture illicit street drugs including cocaine, heroin, ecstacy and methamphetamines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ITALIAN luxury fashion house Brioni is launching a fragrance in London today (Oct 14), as its new CEO Andrea Perrone pushes ahead with expansion plans, especially in Asia. Perrone, nephew of company founder Gaetano Savini, assumed control of the company this July from a governing committee (which served upon).…

By Leah Germain

For many healthcare educators, finding new and innovative ways to relay information to their students has become an essential way to stay current in the classroom. In many of these scenarios, technology is the key that links the teacher with their student and bridges the gap of understanding.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

REAPPLYING perfume ten times a day may not count as an addiction, but the ingredients found in your favourite scent could certainly lead to one: cosmetic ingredients have been historically targeted by clandestine drug manufacturers as sources of chemicals used to produce illicit street drugs such as cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines.…

BY WANG FANGQING

DESPITE the global financial crisis, China’s cosmetics direct selling market remains attractive to personal care products producers for its huge potential growth. Last year, its market size reached Chinese Yuan (RMB) 17 billion (US$2.48 billion), up 11% from a year ago, according to London-based research firm Euromonitor International.…

By Leah Germain

A group of international scientists have pinpointed two genes associated with Alzheimer’s disease, a discovery that may lead to new treatments and possible cures for the progressive and degenerative disease of the brain.

Working with scientists from around the world, Professor Julie Williams, from Cardiff University’s School of Medicine in Wales, the UK, was the head scientist for the largest-ever joint Alzheimer’s disease genome-wide association study (GWAS).…

BY ALAN OSBORN and GEORGINA OLIVER

ACCORDING to Jean Castarède, author of a lay-reader’s guide to the luxury industry published in 2008 in the popular ‘Que sais-je?’ (What do I know?) paperback series, France’s couture and high-end ready-to-wear sector then represented one third of the world’s Euro 30 billion luxury fashion market.…