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BY JULIAN RYALL

TO mark one decade since the worst accident in the history of the nation’s nuclear power industry, the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan (NSC) has released a report in which it analyses the lessons learned in the 1999 Tokaimura incident and the efforts regulators need to take to ensure future safety in the industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

The European Commission will spend around Euro 3 million on promoting sales outside the European Union (EU) of French spirits, Italian and Portuguese wines over the next three years. It is spending Euro 1.2 million on marketing and information campaigns in Japan and north America coordinated by Italian wine federation Federdoc; Euro 1 million promoting Portuguese ‘vinho verde’ wines within China, Norway, Latin and north America, campaigns organised by the Comissão de Viticultura da Região dos Vinhos Verdes; and Euro 912 million on promoting Cognac, with campaigns in China, Russia and north America coordinated by France’s Bureau National Interprofessionnel du Cognac (BNIC).…

BY ALAN OSBORN

MEASURED by what’s been happening in the European cigarette market over the past 10 to 15 years, 2008 – and what we’ve seen of 2009 so far – hasn’t been that bad. It may not have been good, exactly, but considering the global recession few people will have been looking for uplift.…

BY MARK ROW

THERE are 44 million smokers in Russia, and 31% of Russians smoke. Male smoking rates (61%) are among the highest in the world, while female smoking rates have more than doubled from 1991 to 2008 from 7% to 15%, according to Tabakprom, the Russian cigarette manufacturer’s association (NOTE – SPELLING IS CORRECT).…

BY MARK ROWE

ACCORDING to World Health Organisation (WHO) data, 33% of women and 51% of men smoke in Serbia, and per capita consumption of cigarettes remained constant at around 80 packs per year between 2005 and 2009.

Sales of boxes of cigarettes have declined since 2004, but this trend accelerated in 2008 when 520,825,787 boxes were sold, a significant drop from 2007 when 573,297,364 were sold, according to the Serbian government statistics department.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON GAVIN BLAIR ANCA GURZU and KEITH NUTHALL

AS the Copenhagen conference charged with forging a new international climate change treaty gets under way this month, the auto industry worldwide will be looking closely at how the deliberations will affect its business.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

FRAGRANCE houses know how to bottle scents – that’s their job and expertise. But scent is not only for graceful necks and pampered wrists; it can also market products, create ambiance, or add realism to a museum exhibit.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN ETHIOPIAN version of the popular USA television show ‘Sesame Street’ has won an UNESCO award for showing how televised puppetry can promote children’s learning in developing countries. ‘Tsehai Loves Learning’, which screens on Ethiopian national television ETV features a knowledge hungry giraffe called Tsehai and his friend Mr Turtle.…

BY BILL CORCORAN

SOUTH Africa’s legal cigarette market has witnessed small annual increases in sales over the past few years, following a decade-long downturn.

Cigarette consumption for 2008 has been estimated at nearly 25 billion sticks compared to 23.6 billion in 2006.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE VALUE of the Turkish tobacco market is projected to increase by 8% in 2009, up from Turkish Lira (TL)18.596 billion (Euro 8.4 billion) in 2008 to TL 20.160 billion (Euro 9.1 billion) on the back of industry price increases and a rise in excise tax in June, according to British American Tobacco (BAT).…