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Mirroring the increasing trend toward legalisation of marijuana for recreational and/or medicinal purposes in the USA and Canada, North American consumers are incorporating the cannabis plant and its byproducts into their diets.

Some 25 American states and the federal District of Columbia had, by this month (July) liberalised their marijuana laws following decades of prohibition.…

THE ENTRY of Froneri, the joint venture company formed on a 50-50 basis by Nestlé and UK-based manufacturer R&R, into the Russian ice cream market, is poised to boost competition in a segment that has been showing increasing dynamism.

Russian ice cream sales have not only been increasing, they have become more diverse, with consumers being offered more choice from Russia-based and international food corporations.…

Europe in 2016 has been witness to significant milestones passed in deployment of new, full-scale demonstration and commercial tidal stream and wave energy projects.

This is encouraging for the European Union (EU), which wants clean, renewable ‘ocean energy’ to provide a tenth of its power by mid-century.…

South-east Asia is a region that has sharp contrasts in economic development, from between the wealth of Singapore to countries such as Myanmar, where poverty is endemic and consumer markets are relatively undeveloped.

Such contrasts pose challenges for personal care product companies seeking regional strategies to tap the markets of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) 10 countries, whose cosmetics suppliers have to comply with the standards of the ASEAN Cosmetics Directive, which was modelled on European Union legislation.…

Scandinavia’s colour cosmetic sector is poised to grow between 2016 and 2019 after two years of slumping sales, with Sweden being the stronger national market, according to UK-based market intelligence firm Mintel.

Even Sweden has had a bumpy ride, however: in 2013, Sweden’s SEK41.12 million (USD4.78 million – at current exchange rates) colour cosmetics market up from SEK35.9 million (USD4.18 million).…

BRAZILIAN companies are looking to break into international ethical personal care product markets supplying sustainable cosmetics inputs from the Amazon forest, leveraging an innovative government project.

This ‘Structuring Project for Amazon Forest-Based Cosmetics’ scheme, launched in 2013 by the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (Servicio Brasileño de Apoyo a las Micro y Pequeñas Empresas – SEBRAE), is amassing information and data to help companies identify useful natural ingredients and advises on processing, manufacturing and marketing the resulting products.…

HAVING a strong reputation for sustainable practice is increasingly a strong marketing card, for the confectionery sector as much as any other consumer industry. But with its extended international supply chains, demonstrating a high regard for environmental good practice is not always easy for the confectionery sector.…

Board directors are being warned they must anticipate and prepare for significant changes to the way their companies do business in the wake of the international climate change accord agreed in Paris last December (2015). The agreement called on all nations to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.…

Asian paint and coatings manufacturers are set to benefit from the expansion of an existing automotive tariff-free zone spanning Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand to Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam.…

Delivering products that are present in everyday life to unknown markets across the globe, online sales are essential to boost the already booming EUR77 billion European cosmetics market, Cosmetics Europe director general John Chave told last week’s ‘Personal care in a changing world’ conference in Brussels (June 13-17).…