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BY KEITH NUTHALL

COUNTERFEITERS often claim their crime is victimless – the only losers are rich corporations who enjoy healthy profits anyway from their brands. But what if you drink the fake, and it kills you? It happens, Keith Nuthall explores the murky world of drinks counterfeiting.…

BY MARK ROWE, in London; KARRYN CARTELLE, in TOKYO; RUSSELL BERMAN, in Washington DC; and MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

INNOVATION in drinks packaging is more intense today than it has been for decades, with cutting edge innovation in intelligent materials, microchip integration and nanomaterials allowing designers to create boxes, bottles, cans and sacks that they could not dream of before.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, ALAN OSBORN, DAVID HAWORTH, RUSSELL BERMAN, MARK GODFREY and GAVIN BLAIR

INTRODUCTION

WHILE the drinks industry is undoubtedly an important sector in the global economy, the honest truth is that there are bigger players in town: the IT sector, steel making, and food, to name a handful.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and EMMA JACKSON

COUNTERFEITERS often claim their crime is victimless – the only losers are rich corporations who enjoy healthy profits anyway from their brands. But tell that to the families of the 1,069 duped Moscow consumers who died after becoming intoxicated by counterfeit alcoholic beverages in the city during 2008, according to the Russian capital’s board of health.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A KEY anti-counterfeiting group with wide support within the clothing and textile sector has welcomed the launch of a European Observatory on Counterfeiting and Piracy to fight intellectual property criminals faking its members’ products. The new European Union (EU) institution, launched last week (April 2), has been charged with collecting data on goods counterfeits, raising awareness, promoting discussions on the problem and circulating views and best practice in enforcing intellectual property rights between business and national authorities.…

BY MARK ROWE

EVEN with the technological advances of recent years, fog and other poor weather conditions can still snarl up civil air traffic. But researchers from a project backed by the European Commission claim to be on the verge of commercialising a new traffic control system that will speed up airport movements in bad visibility.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE DEBATE over alternative sources of energy for aviation has not been confined to aircraft. The issue has airport managers pondering how such fuels would be used on the ground and at the same to seek to reduce the carbon footprints of their own ‘mini-cities’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and EMMA JACKSON

COUNTERFEITERS often claim their crime is victimless – the only losers are rich corporations who enjoy healthy profits anyway. But tell that to the families of 1,069 duped Moscow consumers who died after becoming intoxicated by counterfeit alcoholic beverages in the city during 2008, according to the city’s board of health.…

BY PHILIPPA JONES

AS the global recession continues, calls for greater transparency in the financial sector have increased exponentially. The recent G20 summit of leaders from the world’s richest economies made this sentiment clear and drew specific attention to the need for all countries to adhere to international standards on anti-money laundering, with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) being asked to "reinvigorate" its assessment of potentially erring jurisdictions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo, EMMA JACKSON and LEAH GERMAIN

TIME was when counterfeit personal care products were commonly crude fake perfumes pedalled in markets and workplaces during the Christmas and other festive periods to bargain hunters who knew they were buying rubbish.…