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MUSK OX KNITWEAR DEVELOPS WARM AND LIGHT FIBRE FROM EXOTIC ARCTIC WILDLIFE
ONE of the warmest fibres used in knitwear across the world is also – unsurprisingly – one of the rarest and most expensive, making the manufacturing of ‘qiviuk’ garments from musk ox wool a true art. Harvested from the soft underfur of this High Arctic musk ox, qiviuk fibre is long, does not shrink when washed and lacks the scales that makes sheep wool itchy.…
NEW PLAYERS PUSH FOR BUSINESS AS ESTABLISHED COMPETITORS LOST COST AND SAFETY ADVANTAGE
The increasingly fluid global market for outsourcing enables brands to switch countries for their manufacturing needs, and it is in the interest of exporting countries to make it easy for them.
Cambodia’s garment industry has been the beneficiary of sourcing shifts from more expensive countries such as China in recent years, attracting manufacturers with some of the lowest labour costs in the world, a past reputation for reasonable working conditions and favoured access to US and European Union (EU) markets.…
RUSSIA SHRUGS OFF EU WTO CHALLENGE OVER PORK IMPORT BAN
THE RUSSIAN government has criticised the European Union (EU) for filing a complaint with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) against Russia’s import ban on EU pigmeat and pigs. The Russians have imposed the ban following four cases of African Swine Fever (ASF) detected in Lithuania and Poland, but the EU claims Moscow’s actions are not based on science, as required by WTO rules.…
EU ROUND UP - UKRAINE PLASTICS MANUFACTURERS COULD BENEFIT FROM EU TRADE DEAL
UKRAINE manufacturers of plastics and plastic products exporting to the European Union (EU) could benefit from the planned scrapping of import duties charged on products traded between them. With the Ukraine government on March 21 signing a political agreement cementing closer links with the EU, the European Commission has released details of proposals to remove tariffs on goods traded between the EU and Ukraine.…
ITALY’S COSMETICS INDUSTRY EXPORTS KEEPS SALES BUOYANT DURING TOUGH ECONOMIC TIMES
WHEN the Percassi family, owners of the successful make-up brand KIKO Make Up Milan, purchased in October 2013 a UNESCO-listed historic industrial site called Crespi d’Adda in northern Italy, it was not only a sign of their success, but proof of the old adage that tough economic times can be good for the beauty industry. …
SRI LANKA’S COSMETIC INDUSTRY RECORDS GRADUAL GROWTH AMIDST GOVERNMENT SUPPORT
THE COSMETICS and beauty product sector in Sri Lanka has recorded a gradual growth in the past few years, with help from the government boosting local manufacturers, according to industry experts.
While being a small sector in comparison to the country’s heavy industries, there are almost 4,000 cosmetics and beauty care products sold on the local market, according to the Cosmetics, Devices and Drugs Regulatory Authority (CDDA), a government agency regulating the sector, operating under the health ministry.…
RUSSIA BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS SHRUG OFF RISKS POSED BY POTENTIAL SANCTIONS
THE RUSSIAN publishing and bookselling sector is shrugging off the risks posed by potential wide-ranging economic sanctions that could be imposed on their country by the European Union (EU) and USA over the Ukraine crisis.
Thus far, asset freezes and visa bans have been introduced against a number of Russian and Ukrainian officials, and some Russian banks have seen their international payment systems shut down.…
UKRAINE ACCOUNTANTS ROLL WITH A REVOLUTION, A COUP AND AN UPRISING
These are testing times for everyone in Ukraine: a revolution followed by the annexation of Crimea by Russia; pro-Russian separatists stoking unrest and grabbing government buildings in eastern Ukraine; and worries of a full-scale invasion. Just as pertinently, these hugely destabilising political upheavals have merely added to the existing turmoil of a state plagued for decades by corruption and low living standards.…
UKRAINE CRISIS HEIGHTENS FOCUS ON POTENTIAL RUSSIA DIRTY MONEY FLOWS IN CYPRUS
THE INSTABILITY prompted by the crisis in Ukraine is increasing the risk of crime-tainted Russian assets being moved into new safe havens to avoid the effects of possible sanctions. With EU member state Cyprus long favoured by Russian investors, and likely to be covered by any sanctions, could the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) offer an attractive alternative?…
UKRAINE ACCOUNTANTS ROLL WITH A REVOLUTION, A COUP AND AN UPRISING
These are testing times for everyone in Ukraine: a revolution followed by the annexation of Crimea by Russia; pro-Russian separatists stoking unrest and grabbing government buildings in eastern Ukraine; and worries of a full-scale invasion. Just as pertinently, these hugely destabilising political upheavals have merely added to the existing turmoil of a state plagued for decades by corruption and low living standards.…