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BY KEITH NUTHALL

CALVIN Klein has lost an attempt at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to prevent a Spanish company gaining European Union (EU) rights to a trademark.

CK has opposed Zafra Marroquineros SL registering with the EU trademark regulator the mark CK CREACIONES KENNYA for clothes and leather goods.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE EURO-MASHREQ gas pipeline that runs 1,200 kilometers from Egypt through Jordan and Syria to Turkey has taken 20 years to come to fruition. The end is in sight however, with the project awaiting a final tender for the last leg through northern Syria.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

PERFUME-MAKER Calvin Klein has lost an attempt at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to prevent a Spanish company gaining European Union (EU) rights to a trademark because it uses the ‘CK’ initials in its name.

Klein opposed Zafra Marroquineros SL registering with the EU trademark regulator the mark CK CREACIONES KENNYA for clothes and leather goods, also made by the US giant.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IN a battle between two drinks companies with the same name, a Guadeloupe rum-maker has won the right to trademark its moniker – Montebello – fighting off a challenge from a namesake Spanish wine company. The European Court of Justice Court of First Instance has ruled Montebello, of Petit-Bourg, on the French Caribbean island, has European Union trademark rights, dismissing arguments that consumers could be confused with wines sold by challenger Bodegas Montebello, of Montilla, Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A REVISED food and drink trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and Switzerland will provide wines and spirits from the 12 countries joining the EU since 2004 with key geographical indication protection in key Swiss export markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE PLANNED acquisition of Spanish company sugar and bakery ingredient company Azucarera Ebro S.L. by Britain’s Associated British Food Plc, owner of British Sugar, has been approved by the European Commission. It concluded there are no serious competition issues associated with this international deal, despite there being some overlap by the companies in sugar sales to Spain and Portugal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE PORTUGUESE and Spanish knitwear sectors are to benefit from special government programmes designed to support clothing producers in these countries withstand the recession, given these countries regard the sector as having strategic importance. The Portuguese government has announced a major Euro 850 million plan to boost its struggling clothing sector, with Euro 600 million being lavished on export credit insurance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, LEAH GERMAIN and MONICA DOBIE

MAYBE the best sign that renewable energies have hit the mainstream is that they now have their very own international organisation: the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Launched in Bonn, Germany, this January, with the support of 76 countries, including its host nation, Spain, Italy, France and Sweden, the roster of signatory nations has since been swollen by India and Belarus.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE SPANISH textile and clothing dying sector will benefit from a Euro 800 million subsidy plan helping it and its customers withstand the recession. The European Commission has granted approval for the scheme as the European Union’s (EU) gatekeeper for national subsidies under the EU’s state aid regime, which has been significantly liberalised since the onset of the recession.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH

ONE day before a Sunday European Union (EU) emergency summit on the global recession, the French government made a U-turn on its proposed Euro 6.5 billion aid plan for Renault and Peugeot-Citroen, dropping its previous conditions relating to the factories’ locations and obliging manufacturers to favour French suppliers when making purchases.…