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DEAL OVER GI'S AND TRADEMARKS PAVES WAY FOR ANTI-COUNTERFEITING TREATY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A FINAL text of a new international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has been agreed – protecting drinks manufacturers against illicit copies through tough criminal penalties for counterfeiters. This follows an agreement at ACTA talks in Tokyo this past weekend between the European Union (EU) and United States over the vexed question of brand rights versus geographical indication protection.…
EUROPEAN CARMAKERS RACE TO IMPROVE EU-KOREA TRADE DEAL BEFORE IMMINENT FINAL VOTE
BY KEITH NUTHALL, MJ DESCHAMPS
EUROPEAN car makers will push for additional changes to the controversial European Union (EU)-South Korea free trade agreement when it is placed before the European Parliament for ratification. The spokesperson for the European automobile manufacturers association ACEA Sigrid de Vries told wardsauto it wanted the deal’s text revised to help Europe’s auto sector.…
BIG COMPANIES ORGANISE CAREFULLY TO HANDLE VARIED ASIAN COSMETICS PACKAGING
BY KARRYN MILLER
WHEN it comes to cosmetics, people from east, southeast, and south Asia may have overlapping beauty needs. But given the diversity of the region, it is no surprise to say personal care companies can not use a ‘one size fits all’ strategy.…
CHINA POWER; REPATRIATED HIGH-END PRODUCTION; ECOTEXTILES AND GM COTTON - A TASTE OF THE FUTURE FOR CLOTHING AND TEXTILES
BY EMMA JACKSON
THE TEXTILE and clothing industry maybe almost unrecognisable from its organisation today in 10 years’ time: Chinese-owned offshore production; unstoppable e-commerce, demand for eco-textiles, shifting luxury markets to Asia’s new middle class, and higher prices for everyone, are just some predictions.…
CHINA POWER; REPATRIATED HIGH-END PRODUCTION; ECOTEXTILES AND GM COTTON - A TASTE OF THE FUTURE FOR CLOTHING AND TEXTILES
BY EMMA JACKSON
THE TEXTILE and clothing industry maybe almost unrecognisable from its organisation today in 10 years’ time: Chinese-owned offshore production; unstoppable e-commerce, demand for eco-textiles, shifting luxury markets to Asia’s new middle class, and higher prices for everyone, are just some predictions.…
FUTURE FASHION PREDICTIONS USE HIGH TECH TO PICK UPCOMING TRENDS
BY LEE ADENDORFF
TREND forecasters and cool-hunters have spawned a global sub-sector of the fashion industry, with university courses, computer software and academic research making a science out of predicting fashion’s ‘next big thing.’
This is no easy feat considering the multitude of factors – politics, energy resources, economies and environment, not to mention ideology and people – that will play a part in shaping the world’s fashion tastes of the future.…
LAWYERS WORLDWIDE FEAR THEIR OWN PROFESSION IS PREY TO CORRUPTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW global survey involving the International Bar Association (IBA) has revealed widespread concern amongst lawyers that their profession is compromised by corruption. Working with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD), the IBA showed that nearly half of all respondents stated corruption was an issue in their own legal profession; more than 70% said so in the former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America, the Baltic States and eastern Europe.…
GLOBAL: Run universities like supermarkets, consultant tells OECD conference
BY Lawrence J. Speer
A senior manager with the London-based strategy and insight consultancy SHM has suggested universities and other higher education institutions be run like supermarkets. Paul Gillooly presented this provocative idea on September 13, during a presentation to an incredulous group of government officials and university leaders.…
EUROPE: EU Funding for 21st Century Silk Road
BY Alan Osborn
The European Commission has brought Internet researchers in central Asia into the international research community through aid of a ?$5 million (US$6.74 million) grant to the central Asia research and education network (CAREN) (SPELLING CORRECT). Brussels says the funding will upgrade the ancient ‘silk road’ carrying goods from Europe via central Asia to China into "a 21st century high-speed internet highway for research and education."…
CANADIAN VOC REGULATIONS ALIGN NORTH AMERICAN PAINT SECTOR
BY EMMA JACKSON
MORE than a year after Canada announced new volatile organic compound (VOC) regulations for architectural coatings, the industry is settling into its new obligations, which formally came into force on September 9.
The regulations, part of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) and called the Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Concentration Limits for Architectural Coatings Regulations, set mandatory VOC limits for 53 categories of architectural coatings (including indoor coatings), covering all infrastructure coatings including traffic markings.…