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EFSA RECOMMENDS RIFT VALLEY FEVER STUDIES AS LIVESTOCK AND HUMAN DISEASE CREEPS TOWARDS NORTH AFRICA
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has advised the European Union (EU) to launch a series of studies to help assess the risk of Rift Valley Fever being introduced to livestock and humans in north Africa and the Middle East, potentially threatening Europe.…
WESTERN BRANDS LOOK CLOSER TO HOME FOR SENSITIVE SOURCING
IT is a long way from China, east Asia and south Asia to the key developed world markets or Europe and America. And with fashion being so dynamic, demand for a line could have dampened in the months between placing an order and receiving delivery.…
EU OLIVE OIL ACTION PLAN BROADLY WELCOMED BY BIG EUROPEAN PRODUCERS
THE EUROPEAN Commission has put forward an action plan aimed at creating a lasting remedy for Europe’s troubled olive oil sector which has suffered a near-calamitous loss of profitability in recent years. Unveiled last June, the plan follows a sequence of temporary and not wholly successful boosts to the sector in the form of injections of private storage aid between October 2011 and May last year.…
EU SLUMP DRAGS ON AFRICAN ARAB SPRING STATES
BY PACIFICA GODDARD
10 SEPTEMBER 2012
MOROCCO, Tunisia, and Egypt – respectively the sixth, seventh and sixteenth largest exporters of knitwear to the European Union’s 27 member states, as measured by sales value – have traditionally been competitive knitwear producers and exporters.…
OUTSOURCING WITH THE BRIC COUNTRIES: HOW DO COMPANIES GAIN THEIR FOOTING?
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
OUTSOURCING textile and apparel production is a necessary step along the supply chain for many large international brands, which – more than often – have long-standing relationships with manufacturers abroad. These partnerships have to start from somewhere, though – and with economic development continuing to grow in the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China) and other emerging market countries, there are many third-party companies and services that can help international buyers choose the right manufacturer.…
FRENCH HALAL C&T MARKET TOUGH TO CRACK
BY DAVID HAYHURST, IN PARIS
CHANTAL Ronceray is targeting fast growth in turnover at Jamal Paris, a small but ambitious halal cosmetics products company she co-founded in 2007. It is an act of faith in the long-term potential for sales among France’s 4.7 million Muslims, Europe’s largest such population.…
OIL AND GAS RICH MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH LOOK FOR NUCLEAR AND GREEN ENERGY TO SOLIDIFY ENERGY FUTURE
BY PAUL COCHRANE, IN BEIRUT; AND MARK GAO, IN ISTANBUL
MOST states in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) have mulled developing nuclear power over the past decade, from Morocco to Egypt, and Jordan to Saudi Arabia, but only the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is coming close to embarking on the nuclear option thus far.…
MOROCCO'S DECORATIVE PAINTS AND COATINGS MARKET FORECAST TO GROW
BY KACI RACELMA
WHILE the majority of north African paint and coatings markets have been disrupted by the wave of political and economic unrest brought on by the ongoing Arab Spring revolution, relatively stable Morocco has generated modest growth.
The country’s paint companies predict an increase in domestic paints and coatings production and sales in 2012, following sluggish sales since the international financial crisis hit in 2008.…
ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT REDOUBLES EFFORTS TO COMBAT MONEY LAUNDERING
BY KACI RACELMA, IN TIZI OUZOU, ALGERIA
A TERRORIST attack on March 3 targeted the local headquarters of Algeria’s national rural police force ‘El Dark El Watani’ (in the southern Algerian border town of Tamanrasset with a booby-trapped car, leaving 23 people wounded.…
ARMS AND DRUG SMUGGLING COMBINE WITH KIDNAPPING IN THE ALGERIAN SAHARA
BY KACI RACELMA, IN TIZI OUZOU, ALGERIA; AND PAUL COCHRANE, IN BEIRUT
COMMERCIAL crime may not be as omnipresent in North Africa as in some other parts of the world, but companies operating in the region have risks to contend with.…