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High demand for home grocery deliveries in large Russian cities and the success of such services in Western countries are helping create a buzz around online grocery retailing in Russia. But complexity and high cost of operating this model in Russia means few retailers have so far launched online sales channels.…

The days of Italian consumer spending extra Euro on a high performing hydrating face cream or premium fragrance may be on hold as the majority of Italian consumers are currently seeking better value for money in their beauty and personal care (BPC) purchases.…

SERIOUS concerns were raised today at the European Parliament over the impending abolition of European Union (EU) milk production quotas, as dairy prices continue to fall. A special hearing on the future of the industry heard (on Tuesday January 27) how the sector had been taken by surprise in the past year by production increases and export market losses through Russia’s embargo.…

Turkey’s rapidly growing nonwovens industry is a rising star that everyone should be paying attention to. This was the general consensus at the second Turkish Nonwovens Symposium in Istanbul on November 10-11, held by EDANA, the leading global association of nonwovens and related industries.…

BOOK sales in Russia during the Christmas and New Year holiday period may have been disappointing, but the country’s President Vladimir Putin is helping keep the industry afloat, with books about the strongman leader topping the best-seller list. Russian book sales reached Russian Roubles RUB1.65 billion (USD27 million) in the festive season.  …

THE ITALIAN government seems to have withdrawn support for the South Stream pipeline under the Black Sea as European Union (EU) relations with Russia continue to cool. Italy was expected to be a key customer of South Stream gas, but its government is now promoting a new strategy securing a diversified range of energy imports, including supplies from Africa and the Levant.…

AFTER two years of talks, Finland and Estonia have reached an agreement (on November 17) to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) Balticconnector pipeline under the Gulf of Finland between the two countries by 2019.

“There are no negatives in this investment.…

The president of the Turkish Clothing Manufacturers’ Association (TCMA) has told WTiN.com that it is anticipating a slowdown in the Turkish textile and clothing industry’s export growth in 2015 due to difficulties in some of Turkey’s most important markets. Cem Negrin said that the Turkish clothing industry has reached its exports target of USD19 billion for 2014, representing growth of 9.2% on 2013.…

THE RUSSIAN government is continuing its optimistic stance over the future of its textile industry, despite the fall in the Rouble, which will make imported inputs far more expensive for Russia-based manufacturers. Plans announced by the Russian ministry of industry and trade go as far as to claim the share of domestic producers in the Russian market for textile and light industry products will increase from 25% to 40% over the next three to five years.…

Rising electricity prices and growing fears around security of supply are driving Russian industrial power users to construct their own onsite power and CHP (combined heat and power) plants. “On-site generation is known as a highly profitable option to improve industrial energy efficiency and for the industry to cover its own power supply needs,” said the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) in a 2013 report Unlocking Investment Opportunities in Industrial On-site Generation in Russia: “Russian industries are particularly attractive for combined heat and power production, since there are significant industrial heat loads available for CHP production.”…