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SPAIN E-BOOK SALES GROW SLOWLY, IMPEDED BY CONTINUED ECONOMIC GLOOM
E-books now look more like evolution than a revolution in Spain. Overall sales of books were Euro EUR2.47 billion last year, down 10.9% on 2011 and 28.9% below 2008. E-book sales were EUR74.3 million, just 3% of the sector, representing 54,714 copies sold.…
VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT LAUNCHES ANTI-CORRUPTION CRUSADE, AMIDST DEEPENING SCEPTICISM
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is seeking special powers to combat the country’s deep-seated epidemic of corruption; this while the country is gripped with severe economic problems, marked by shortages of consumer goods and a lack of foreign currency vital to the business sector.…
VENEZUELA PHARMA SECTOR STRUCK BY GOVERNMENT DEBTS AND HARD CURRENCY CONTROLS
VENEZUELA’S economic turmoil is plaguing its pharmaceutical sector leaving its medicine manufacturers struggling to meet market demand. Strict price controls and a shortage of foreign currency are contributing to vacant store shelves in pharmacies across the country. Manufacturers are dependent on imported inputs and lack the hard currency to pay for them.…
COVERING THE RISK OF DEEPWATER EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION
THE INSURANCE risks involved in oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) are rising in line with growing industry complexity and the move into deeper, remoter and more environmentally sensitive environments.
This is placing ever greater demands on the need to identify, quantify and insure against risk, particularly when the financial and reputational repercussions of getting it wrong are escalating too.…
DEMAND GROWS FOR TECHNICAL TEXTILES IN BRAZIL
BRAZIL is an innovative technical textile producer, declares a report from a senior São Paulo’s business school the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV), despite the sector experiencing teething problems as it expands. Looking at the Brazilian textile sector as a whole, the study estimates that 77% of investment into the sector during 2012 was used to buy innovative machinery – and the technical textile sector especially has a lot of demand to meet.…
CHINA’S HUGE INVESTMENT IN LATIN AMERICA IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY BUT WHAT ARE THE RISKS?
THERE was much fanfare in Managua in June when Nicaraguan officials granted a concession to build a USD40 billion canal, which would challenge the great Panama Canal. The unlikely builder: a Chinese businessman, Wang Jing, chairman of China-based Xinwei Telecom Enterprise Group and president of the newly established Hong Kong Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Co.…
VENEZUELA COSMETICS SECTOR HIT BY SUPPLY CRUNCH
Venezuela’s cosmetic craze is renowned throughout the region. A beauty culture exists that – besides boosting sales – has produced six Miss Universe winners, six Miss World winners, six Miss Internationals and one Miss Earth. But despite the extra attention given to personal care in this Andean nation, residents have recently been hard pressed to find the most basic of necessities, such as soap and shampoo.…
LATIN AMERICA – MAJOR GROWTH ZONE FOR PERSONAL CARE PRODUCT SECTOR
WHILE it is hard to generalise about a region as diverse as Latin America, the truth is that many of its consumers are more concerned about personal appearance than is typical elsewhere in the world, and that is good news for the personal care product industry.…
TOBACCO SECTOR
Venezuela’s tobacco growers and manufacturers are looking to newly elected president Nicolás Maduro to offer them an olive branch after his predecessor Hugo Chávez levied costly taxes and imposed punishing legislation on the industry.
“We’re hoping for change,” said Enrique Moreno, President of the Venezuelan Tobacco Growers Association (AVENCULTA).”We…
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT MEMBER RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT THE SAFETY OF BRAZILIAN BEEF
A CENTRE-left Portuguese member of the European Parliament (MEP) Nuno Teixeira has raised concerns about the safety of Brazilian beef after learning that two shipments of Brazilian beef meat have been blocked in the port of Rotterdam after testing positive for the presence of Ecoli bacteria.…