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US TEXTILE AND CLOTHING INDUSTRY CALLS ON RE-ELECTED OBAMA TO PROTECT AGAINST VIETNAM IMPORTS
BY ALAN OSBORN
Significant questions about the re-elected US Administration’s readiness to stand up for American textile interests in the upcoming negotiations for expanding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal are looming in the wake of President Barack Obama’s re-election. Important decisions will be needed soon about the terms for including Vietnam in the TPP and its associated yarn forward rule of origin.…
THE NUMBERS GAME IN VIETNAM - KATHERINE WU, UNILEVER
BY CONNLA STOKES, IN HO CHI MINH CITY
As one of the world’s fastest-growing accountancy bodies, ACCA is attracting more finance and management professionals in Asia eager to get to the top. This is certainly the case for Shanghai, China-born Katherine Wu.…
EMA BOSS RASI SAYS AGENCY WILL ACT EASE CURRENT PHARMACEUTICAL SUPPLY SHORTAGES
BY ALAN OSBORN, IN LONDON
Professor Guido Rasi, executive director of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), has told Manufacturing Chemist of his concerns about the availability of medicines in the European Union (EU).
Speaking in his office at EMA headquarters in London’s Canary Wharf, Professor Rasi said EMA wanted "to see what role we can play and what counsel we can give in respect of the problem of the (drug) shortages."…
ASIA PACIFIC MEN'S GROOMING MARKET GROWS ON BACK OF CULTURAL ACCEPTANCE
BY MARK ROWE
The cosmetics market for Asian men is thriving where other sectors struggle. "Men’s skin care products appear to exist in a different economic world to much of rest of the industry," said Diyva Sangameshwar, a spokeswoman for market researchers Euromonitor based in Singapore.…
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BY HELEN CLARK, IN HANOI
Fast food consumption has risen quickly in Vietnam. With rapid economic growth in the past decade or more and a rising middle class in the cities with more disposable income many foreign chains have opened up in recent years.…
INDIA'S NEW AIRPORT CITY THE FIRST OF ITS KIND
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, IN NEW DELHI
"A NEW and superior urban form of living," is how India’s first airport city, Durgapur Aertropolis, in West Bengal, is being defined by its promoter and main contractor, Changi Airports India Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Singapore-based Changi Airport International.…
TOKYO'S MAJOR AIRPORTS ARE SET TO BECOME LINKED - BUT COOPERATION IS STILL LACKING
BY JULIAN RYALL, IN TOKYO
AT present it takes one hour and 32 minutes to complete the transfer between Tokyo’s two main airports Narita and Haneda, hampering the city’s efforts to be seen as the most important aviation hub in western Asia.…
KANSAI STRUGGLES TO CREATE PROFITABLE LOW COST MODEL FOR JAPAN'S REGIONAL AIRLINES
BY ROB GILHOOLY, IN TOKYO
When New Kansai International Airport Co. took over the operation of Japan’s partly state-run Kansai International Airport facility this April through a plan by the government to jump-start Japan’s air travel market, it also took on an estimated Japanese Yen JPY1.3 trillion (USD16.5 billion) in interest-bearing debt.…
EMERGING MARKET COUNTRIES MANAGEMENT BRIEFING OUTSOURCING SUPPLIERS STILL WANT TO DESIGN AND OWN BRANDS - BUT PROGRESS IS SLOW
BY SHEENA ROSSITER, IN SÃO PAULO; RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, IN NEW DELHI; HELEN CLARK, IN HANOI; AND WANG FANGQING, IN SHANGHAI
THE GROWTH in outsourcing has been maybe the most important trend in the clothing and textile sector in the past decade, with emerging market countries offering increasingly reliable and sophisticated services.…
SLUGGISH ECONOMY DRIVES SPANISH CONSUMERS FROM PREMIUM TO PRIVATE LABEL SKINCARE
BY ROBERT STOKES IN MÁLAGA
THIS year I have abandoned my premium brand sun screen in favour of a Deliplus private label product sold by the Spanish supermarket group Mercadona for around EUR 5.00, saving around EUR 12.00 into the bargain.…