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DENMARK’S FRILAND LEADS WAGYU TRI-PARTNERSHIP PROJECT



Friland, the Danish Crown owned organic meat specialist, has entered a tri-partnership to develop Wagyu cattle herds in Denmark and produce Kobe meat for high-end consumers in Denmark and beyond, including restaurants and specialty supermarkets.

It is working with Copenhagen-based Japanese restaurant Umani and the Søren Vester farming enterprise to produce Kobe-style meat from purebred black Wagyu herds.…

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COOPERATION THE KEY TO FIGHTING CYBERCRIME, AS ATTACK NUMBERS MOUNT



GREATER international and government-industry collaboration is taking the fight to cyber criminals who exploit security weaknesses in IT systems. Just as well: cyber security has rocketed up the league table of chief executive officers’ concerns as lurid examples of cybercrime become almost a weekly media event.…

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HOW TO GET ETHICS INTO THE ORGANISATION



RECENT scandals involving the mis-selling of financial products, the rigging of the LIBOR interest rate for interbank lending, insider fraud, and bribery and corruption throughout and beyond companies’ supply chains are costing organisations dearly both financially, reputationally and legally.

In the US, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) lies in wait for wrongdoers; in the UK it is the 2010 Bribery Act.…

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LABELLING AND FINISHING SEAMLESSLY INTEGRATE WITH PACKAGING TO LURE CONSUMERS



THE BEST packaging always seems to be an integral part of a product – indeed for personal care product consumers, the appearance of a container can be why they make a purchase. So for brands, making packaging decorations and finishing seem to melt into a product can be or critical importance.…

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SAUDI ARABIA AIRPORT EXPANSION LONG OVERDUE, TAILORING SERVICES TO MUSLIM PILGRIMS



THE EXPANSION of the Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz International Airport (PMIA) in Medina, Saudi Arabia, has long been overdue, with the facility having struggled to handle the spike in pilgrims visiting the two holy sites of Mecca and Medina. In a first for the Gulf region, the expansion is a public-private partnership, with Turkey’s TAV Airports Holding Company operating a 25-year concession that is expected to be rolled out elsewhere in the kingdom.…

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ALUMINA SUPPLIERS PAY OUT USD384 MILLION IN BRIBERY CASE



US-based Alcoa World Alumina LLC (AWA) and its majority-owner Alcoa Inc (Alcoa), the global alumina sales company, are to pay a total of USD384 million in penalties after AWA admitted funnelling bribes to officials in Bahrain.

In 2004, an Alcoa company corruptly won a supply agreement with Bahraini government-controlled smelter Aluminium Bahrain BSC by agreeing to sell alumina ore through offshore shell companies owned by a sham London-based distributor who marked up the sales price by around USD188 million.…

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ALUMINA SUPPLIERS PAY OUT USD384 MILLION IN BRIBERY CASE



BY KITTY SO

 

US-based Alcoa World Alumina LLC (AWA) and its majority-owner Alcoa Inc (Alcoa), the global alumina sales company, are to pay a total of USD384 million in penalties after AWA admitted funnelling bribes to officials in Bahrain.

In 2004, an Alcoa company corruptly won a supply agreement with Bahraini government-controlled smelter Aluminium Bahrain BSC by agreeing to sell alumina ore through offshore shell companies owned by a sham London-based distributor who marked up the sales price by around USD188 million.…

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HANDS-OFF APPROACH IN UK MEANS NEW GAS STORAGE INVESTMENT IS UNLIKELY



BY ROBERT STOKES

 

THE UNITED Kingdom imports more than 50% of its demand for natural gas and this will exceed 85% by 2030 according to National Grid, which owns and operates Britain’s high pressure National Transmission System (NTS) for gas.…

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EUROPE’S COGENERATION MARKET NEEDS A BIG PUSH FROM GOVERNMENTS TO PROSPER IN THE LONG TERM



IT is a curious irony that for an industry as technical as cogeneration that maybe the biggest handicap to its sustained growth in Europe is actually emotional. Both commercial markets and governments are swayed by sentiment as well as hard cash – and currently both influences are failing to pull in co-gen’s favour.…

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EUROPE’S COGENERATION MARKET NEEDS A BIG PUSH FROM GOVERNMENTS TO PROSPER IN THE LONG TERM



IT is a curious irony that for an industry as technical as cogeneration that maybe the biggest handicap to its sustained growth in Europe is actually emotional. Both commercial markets and governments are swayed by sentiment as well as hard cash – and currently both influences are failing to pull in co-gen’s favour.…

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