Search Results for: Russia

BY WANG FANGQING

JAPAN brewer Kirin Holdings will begin manufacturing and selling beer in Germany in October. Working with Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan, of Freising, Kirin hopes to lower logistics costs and improve quality for supplies to 23 countries in mainland Europe, including Germany, France and Italy.…

BY MUNZA MUSHTAQ

IF proof were needed that politics and business do not always mix well, look no further than Sri Lanka’s knitwear industry. The European Commission has announced as of August 15, Sri Lanka has been suspended from its Generalised System of Preferences (GSP+) preferential trading regime, providing access to European Union (EU) markets for countries that abide by certain principles of good governance and human rights.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

RUSSIAN consumer protection authorities are threatening a ban on Moldovan wine, which the exporting country claims is purely political. Russia’s chief sanitary inspector Gennady Onishchenko has attacked its quality, claiming "Moldovan wine should be used to paint fences" as customs officials this month impounded 170,000 bottles, claiming they contained too much dibutyl phthalate and metalaxyl.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) is lending Russia’s largest glass bottle manufacturer Russian roubles RUB460 million (around Euro EUR12 million) to help reduce its foreign exchange exposure and swap maturing debts for a single longer-term local currency facility.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

TURKEY’S US dollar USD2 billion (Great Britain Pounds GBP1.3 billion) Turkish paint sector is projected to grow 10% in 2010, rebounding after over a year of stagnant growth in the wake of the global financial crisis.

The country is Europe’s sixth largest paint manufacturer (for those who consider Eurasian Turkey part of Europe).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is advising tea-exporting countries to stimulate demand in their domestic markets, because major growing sales are unlikely in traditional importers of black tea, such as Britain and Russia. Here, "scope for expansion in consumption is quite limited…but in the countries where tea is produced the per capita consumption is much lower and so there is a lot more market potential," said Kaison Chang, secretary of FAO’s inter-governmental group on tea.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IMAGINATION and guile continue to help fraudsters milk hundreds of millions of Euros from the European Union’s (EU) well-stocked budgets, explains the latest report from EU anti-fraud agency OLAF, writes Keith Nuthall.

OLAF spends a lot of money sniffing out fraud in the institutions and programmes of the EU and the payment of duties earmarked to fund this spending.…

BY ZLATKO CONKAS, and KEITH NUTHALL

WHEN imagining Europe’s greenest and most efficient energy systems, the countries of the former Yugoslavia do not readily spring to mind. The simple truth is Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and even Slovenia have a reputation for having ageing energy dirty systems.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

THE SUNFLOWER family is joining the ranks of other genetically sequenced oil crops, as a Canadian-led project maps the sunflower genome, part of the largest flowering family on the planet – with significant potential for commercial benefit for the oils and fats sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is to combine forces with the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in the coming year to examine offshore oil and gas safety in the light of the Gulf of Mexico spill.

At an ‘Energy Dialogue’ meeting in Brussels, senior OPEC and EU officials agreed to organise an international roundtable on minimising offshore safety risks early 2011, which could spark new regulations.…