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SPAIN’S personal care product market is continuing to grow after years of post-financial crisis weakness. Spain’s skincare, cosmetic and perfume industry continues to mature, and has turned in solid sales figures for 2017, reflecting the optimistic mood of the economy after the ‘lost’ years of the recession.…

THE VOLUME of counterfeit and contraband textile products, reaching Russia via nearby countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia), last year (2017) amounted to Russian roubles RUB30 billion (USD500 million), according to Russian government officials and textile producers.…

AS China’s retreat from mass market clothing production continues, Bangladesh knitters are eyeing another added value knitwear niche – sportswear. Following the industry’s success in boosting sales within the profitable lingerie segment, Bangladesh manufacturers are ramping up production in sports apparels, although some experts say that work is needed on boosting its supply chain, particularly of manmade fibres.…

Food products with colour-coded packaging, informing the consumer about the sugar, salt and fat content will soon appear on the shelves of Russian retail stores, according to draft voluntary regulations written by the national consumer watchdog Rospotrebnadzor.

Its proposal would instruct food manufacturers to marking meat, fish, bread, dairy and other food products with ‘traffic lights’ symbols indicating their intrinsic healthiness.…

RUSSIAN airport holding and cooperating company Basel-Aero, which is owned by the Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska may sell some of its airport assets, government officials have told Jane’s Airport Review.

The spark for the sales is likely to be financial problems caused by the recent inclusion of Deripaska in a new USA sanctions list of Russian companies and plutocrats the US, said senior officials at the Russian ministry of transport and air industry analysts. …

Brazil is by far the country most-named in American investigations for crimes against the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), with China trailing behind in second place, according to the latest listing from a blog, FCPA Tracker. It says industries cited in the different FCPA probes tied to Brazil include power generation, waste management, oil and gas services, food production, steel manufacturing and telecommunications.…

BRAZIL’s agriculture minister Blairo Maggi has announced his country, “the world’s second-largest producer and largest poultry exporter” wants to contest the European Union (EU)’s restrictions on poultry meat exports at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The case could set an important world trade law precedent for poultry imports, regarding the extent to which importing countries can block trades over salmonella contamination.…

Unlike the limited range of minerals used in fossil fuel production, many minerals, metallic and nonmetallic, are used in renewable energy technologies. However, production is often low and concentrated in a limited number of countries – creating potential strategic supply problems.…

SURGING rates of cybercrime are driving businesses of all kinds to devote more attention and resources to preventing cyber-attacks, and drilling employees on how to respond to attacks is a key and increasingly important precaution.

According to John Skipper, a UK-based cyber security expert at specialist technology and innovation consultants, PA Consulting,

“Every organisation should be training staff to recognise a potential threat and react correctly.…

THE UKRAINE government is to allocate up to USD300 million towards the development of the domestic textile industry in its country over the next two years, according to officials.

A government spokesman for the ministry of economic development and trade told WTiN.com…