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INDONESIAN consumers are becoming increasingly brand-savvy as their incomes surge, driving up the country’s body care product market. As of 2015, this retail segment generated USD169.41 million in sales, and is expected to reach USD245.09 million by 2020, according to Ghina Romani, a researcher with the London-based market intelligence company Canadean.…

KNITWEAR manufacturers used to plan production a year in advance, but the advent of fast fashion has changed all that. Today, suppliers are being asked to supply goods in some cases weeks in advance of a product line going to market.…

BOOMING inflation is driving consumers in Argentina to switch to chicken and pork and away from pricier beef, a mainstay for decades.

Argentines ate an annualised 56 kilogrammes (kg) of beef in the first quarter [OF 2016?], down 5.9% from a year earlier – the sharpest decline in six years, according to data from the Argentina’s meat industry and trade chamber CICCRA (La Cámara de la Industria y el Comercio de Carnes y Derivados de la República Argentina).…

MULTI-COUNTRY regions such as eastern Europe do not always follow the same script when it comes to market performance. Sometimes, when major events happen, such as the global financial crisis, it is difficult for national coatings markets to buck the trend, but with the recovery now established, weakening economic headwinds, the latent differences between national markets can become clear.…

The world of mergers and acquisitions in the Russian oil and gas sector can sometimes be as opaque as a matryoshka doll: political interference and considerations are often almost as important as business ones; and takeovers can fall through at the last moment, even as parts of the Russian state’s energy holdings discuss mergers with private national players.…

POTENTIAL improvements to post-marketing authorisation procedures used for pharmaceuticals in the European Union (EU) have been identified in a European Medicines Authority (EMA) survey. These included establishing better alerts when regulatory guidance is updated; the timeliness of responses from EMA’s pre-submission queries service (PQS); proactive communications in case there are delays in EMA assessment reports and product information comments, opinions and notifications; and the need to optimise the EMA periodic update safety report (PSUR) process.…

The attack at Brussels Zaventem airport will spark new discussions on the security of landside facilities at European airports as the European Union rolls out reforms from its European Agenda on Security Strategy (EASS).

It was launched last April (2015), and was the latest in a series of security policy developments undertaken by the EU since the September 11 attacks on the USA.…

IT is perhaps little surprise that many senior leaders within the UK and European Union (EU) civil aviation sector oppose the withdrawal of Britain from the EU following the planned June 23 in-out membership referendum. The industry has benefited mightily from the open borders and travel rights offered by the EU.…

Good training is essential in the fight against fraud, stressed speakers at the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners’ (ACFE) 2016 European Fraud Conference. Indeed, with the event being held opposite Brussels airport, the value of interpreting criminal intelligence of any kind was made crystal clear by Islamic terrorists bombing its bookings hall.…

BRITAIN votes on June 23 about whether the UK should stay or leave the European Union (EU). The stakes could not be higher for the food and drink industry. Food & Drink Technology News has spoken to experts who support or reject the idea of the UK leaving the EU to see what they think about a Brexit.…