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BY SHEENA ROSSITER, IN SÃO PAULO; RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, IN NEW DELHI; HELEN CLARK, IN HANOI; AND WANG FANGQING, IN SHANGHAI

WHILE the focus on emerging markets for the big international clothing brands has often been to view them as outsourcing opportunities, the truth is that there are a lot of people with a lot of money in these countries.…

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.…

BY NICK HOLDSWORTH, IN KALUGA, RUSSIA

CARMAKERS were celebrating on July 4 when the first of four new models rolled off a state-of-the-art production line in a 145 hectare plant in Kaluga, western Russia. The latest in an ongoing expansion of Russia’s auto sector, a bright, clean, airy and surprisingly quiet car assembly plant is surrounded by fields and forests: Peugeot Citroen’s Russian joint venture with Mitsubishi, PCMA Rus has pressed the button to start full scale production that will deliver 125,000 a year vehicles specially designed for the Russian market.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF

Fast fashion has had a fundamental impact on the apparel industry in the space of just a few decades, with global fashion giants such as Zara and H&M demonstrating a previously unthinkable production speed, with the ability to get a garment from concept to store in less than 12 weeks.…

BY GERARD O’DWYER

DENMARK’S government and financial regulators have been increasingly busy since 2005 reinforcing the country’s relatively relaxed anti-money laundering (AML) laws. Despite the introduction of the Danish Act on Measures to Prevent Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in March 2006, and legislative amendments since, reports of suspected money laundering incidences have continued to increase year-on-year in Denmark.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

With ‘timeless’ fashion rarely on the minds of many multinational retailers, a successful style retail strategy is now often a race against the clock instead, as consumers’ appetites for a revolving door of apparel trends continues to grow in the era of ‘fast fashion’.…

BY JONATHAN GILBERT, IN BUENOS AIRES

ARGENTINA’S increasingly protectionist government is under fire from local ham purchasers after confirming that it was blocking imports of Spanish and Italian ham as it seeks to protect domestic meat producers.

Anger is growing in Europe over Argentina’s controls on a wide range of imported goods with the European Union (EU) launching disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) last month (May 25) against the South American nation, alleging it is violating international trade rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPE’S confectionery industry is fighting rearguard moves at the European Parliament to delay the abolition of European Union (EU) quotas on EU sugar production. A report from French conservative MEP Michel Dantin on the new EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has proposed that the quotas stay until 2020 – they are currently to be phased out by 2015.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is preparing to release calls for research proposals commanding millions of Euros of European Union (EU) funding, offering opportunities for innovative liquid fuel and oil production. The initiative is the last batch of funding under the outgoing EU seventh framework programme on research, which ends next year.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

ALGAE have been heralded as the universal raw material of the future for biofuels, agricultural feed, nutritional supplements, biochemicals and cosmetics. They gobble up CO2, can clean up waste water, and many will thrive in seawater when the fresh variety is usually limited to the sunnier climes where algae can be grown more cheaply.…