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BRICS DRINKS LOGISTICS - SWOT ANALYSIS
Strengths:
China has a booming e-commerce sector, and growing online drinks retailers are building more warehouses nationwide. They need to balance ‘just-in-case’ and ‘just-in-time’ demands and also the need for flexibility versus low inventory. Negotiating these logistical pressures is vital in this huge yet highly fragmented market.…
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT WANTS ORIGIN OF CLOTHES, SHOES MANDATORY ON LABELS
THE EUROPEAN Parliament called yesterday (Thurs) for the European Commission to stick to its guns in proposing that origin labelling for clothing and shoes made outside the European Union (EU) be made mandatory, after the EU executive threatened to withdraw a legislative proposal on the issue.…
EU PROTECTS PORTUGUESE AND SLOVENE MEAT PRODUCTS FROM COPIERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has granted legal protection to speciality Portuguese goat and sheep meat and a Slovene pork product. This prevents meat traders using their names in marketing unless these products are made in their home area by traditional production.…
REGULATORY ROUND UP - EU SUGAR QUOTAS COULD STAY AS CAP REFORM DEBATE HOTS UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
PRESSURE is growing on European Union (EU) ministers to give the EU’s sugar production quota system a stay of execution. MEPs on the European Parliament’s agriculture committee have called for the retention of EU sugar quotas for beet farmers until 2020, rather than follow existing plans to phase them out in 2015.…
EXPORTS AND EBOOKS LIGHTEN THE GLOOM IN SPAIN
BY ROBERT STOKES, IN MALAGA
12 SEPTEMBER 2012
SPAIN’s ailing book industry has seen things go from bad to worse throughout 2012 as the country moved centre stage in the Eurozone crisis, government austerity measures hit hard, and unemployment hovered around 25%.…
EU CONSUMER SAFETY NETWORK WARNS OF MORE HYDROQUINONE ALERTS IN WHITENING PRODUCTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) consumer safety alert network Rapex has warned that illegal hydroquinone content is continuing to be discovered in skin whitening products across Europe. Portuguese customs, for instance, seized Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)-manufactured Angel Cosmetics lightening beauty soap with carrot oil for containing the chemical, banned under the EU cosmetics directive.…
EU appears to have rediscovered ambition in crafting EU institutions and programmes for fighting commercial crime.
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS the troubles of the Euro cast doubts over the viability of key European Union’s (EU) economic policies, the EU appears to have rediscovered ambition in crafting EU institutions and programmes for fighting commercial crime. Keith Nuthall reports.…
EU ROUND UP - PAINT AND COATINGS COMPANIES HANDLING DANGEROUS CHEMICALS FACE NEW EU CONTROLS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
PAINTS and coating companies in the European Union (EU) storing potentially dangerous chemicals on their premises will have to by 2015 abide by tougher management standards preventing industrial accidents. This is because the European Parliament, the European Commission and the EU Council of Ministers have struck an agreement on the contents of a new law – the Seveso III directive – that will include new safety rules for chemical-using businesses.…
ALGAL R&D DEMONSTRATES MOMENTUM
BY ROBERT STOKES
ALGAE have been heralded as the universal raw material of the future for biofuels, agricultural feed, nutritional supplements, biochemicals and cosmetics. They gobble up CO2, can clean up waste water, and many will thrive in seawater when the fresh variety is usually limited to the sunnier climes where algae can be grown more cheaply.…
ALGAL R&D DEMONSTRATES MOMENTUM
BY ROBERT STOKES
ALGAE have been heralded as the universal raw material of the future for biofuels, agricultural feed, nutritional supplements, biochemicals and cosmetics. They gobble up CO2, can clean up waste water, and many will thrive in seawater when the fresh variety is usually limited to the sunnier climes where algae can be grown more cheaply.…