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BY GAVIN BLAIR

JAPAN-BASED convenience store operator FamilyMart plans to increase its number of outlets worldwide to 25,000 by the 2015 fiscal year, from its current 16,000 stores, according to its president Junji Ueda. The biggest increase will be in China, where it will boost its stores from 360 to 4,500 – centred on Shanghai, where the port-city has the infrastructure and distribution facilities to support the expansion.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and EMMA JACKSON

THE EUROPEAN Commission has reported the number of notifications of potentially unsafe automobiles though the European Union (EU) consumer warning system remains high – being the third most common product category receiving withdrawals and sales bans in 2009.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, KARRYN MILLER and ALAN OSBORN

WITH the ongoing eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano has grounded airlines and stranded passengers across the world for nearly a week, airports have been scrambling to accommodate the millions of people blocked by an enormous plume of ash filling prime airspace.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MANUFACTURERS protecting high-value brands will be scouring the details of a draft Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) released this month (April) after two years of secret negotiations. What provisions will help international business? Keith Nuthall reports.

THE FACT that negotiations to forge a new international anti-counterfeiting deal have been confidential has not stopped critics claiming that the resulting agreement would be ineffective or even unworkable.…

BY JULIAN RYALL

JAPANESE industries in general have had a tough past couple of years and the cosmetics sector is no exception. That said, manufacturers here have largely stressed the positive and developed a range of innovative new products that meet the needs of ever-more demanding consumers and opened up new product areas.…

BY GAVIN BLAIR and KARRYN MILLER

AS Japan continues its shift over to international financial reporting standards (IFRS), it is creating a host of challenges and opportunities for accounting firms and their clients at the start of the new fiscal year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

PERSONAL care product care manufacturers protecting high-value brands will be scouring a draft Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) released last month, (21 April) after two years of secret negotiations. Framed mostly by rich developed countries including the USA, the European Union (EU) and Japan, the deal has been under discussion because of the failure to agree a comprehensive global agreement in talks with emerging markets such as China and India at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament is pressing for the opening of secret negotiations to frame a new global anti-counterfeiting agreement restricting the abuse of cosmetics and other company marks. Talks to frame an Anti-Counterfeiting and Trade Agreement (ACTA) have been ongoing for two years, but the countries involved (mostly rich developed countries including the USA, the European Union and Japan) have kept the details under wraps; the parliament has so far been excluded.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DRINKS manufacturers protecting high-value brands will be scouring a draft Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) released today, (21 April) after two years of secret negotiations. Framed mostly by rich developed countries including the USA, the European Union (EU) and Japan, the deal is being struck because of the failure to agree a comprehensive global agreement.…

BY ALYSHAH HASHAM

LAWSON – the major Japan convenience store chain – has announced changes to its business practices, after an admitted "misappropriation" of Yen JPY 14.4 billion ($ USD 4.7 million) by two company directors in its Lawson Entermedia unit

This follows recommendations made in a final report of an external investigative committee probing the scandal.…