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NEW CONSUMER HABITS CONTINUE TO SHAKE UP ITALY’S BPC MARKET
MERGERS and acquisitions are always motors of change in the beauty and personal care product sector, and 2017 saw some significant shifts in the key Italian industry. Important acquisitions designed to extend product portfolios and boost market share included the move by Lombardy-based global leader in colour make-up and skincare Intercos to acquire leading contract manufacturer of skin-, hair- and body-care, Cosmint. …
SOUTH AFRICAN EXPAT USES PASSION FOR ACCOUNTING PROFESSION TO DRIVE FINANCIAL EXCELLENCE IN THE GULF
Cynthia Corby is living proof that the sky is the limit for female accounting professionals. An audit partner and construction industry leader at Deloitte Middle East, the South African national has broken every glass ceiling in the industry. Not only was she the youngest audit manager ever in Deloitte South Africa at the age of 23, but 10 years later, she became one of the first female partners at Deloitte Middle East.…
PRESSURE GROWS ON GOVERNMENTS TO INTEGRATE LIVESTOCK WITHIN PARIS AGREEMENT-RELATED CLIMATE POLICIES
GOVERNMENTS are starting to develop anti-methane emission policies that could impact the meat and livestock industry as part of their response to the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change. World leaders who participated at November’s COP23 (conference of parties) climate summit in Bonn, Germany, were advised by a key investor group to reduce livestock methane if greenhouse gas emissions are to be tackled effectively.…
INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL ROUND UP – EU RELEASES TAX EVASION BLACK LIST
*The European Union (EU) Council of Ministers has published a blacklist of jurisdictions it thinks do not cooperate sufficiently with international efforts to reduce tax evasion. They are American Samoa, Bahrain, Barbados, Grenada, Guam, South Korea, Macau, the Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Namibia, Palau, Panama, Saint Lucia, Samoa, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).…
CHINA MOVES TO WORLD’S NUMBER POSITION IN PERSONAL CARE PRODUCT SALES
China will boast the world’s number one cosmetics market in 2018 according to global financial services firm Morgan Stanley: it will account for 20% of total sales, compared to 17% for the second-placed USA and 10% for third placed Japan – overtaking America for the first time, it said.…
EU COUNCIL ADOPTS CONTROVERSIAL MONEY LAUNDERING AND TAX FRAUD BLACKLIST
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers today (December 5) adopted a money laundering blacklist, bringing widespread criticism because the listing – designed to prevent tax fraud and evasion – only covers countries outside the 28-nation bloc. Despite the European Commission screening 92 jurisdictions worldwide, the final list of non-cooperative jurisdictions in taxation matters only contains 17 jurisdictions: American Samoa, Bahrain, Barbados, Grenada, Guam (another US territory), South Korea, Macau (a China special administrative region), the Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Namibia, Palau, Panama, Saint Lucia, Samoa, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).…
ASEAN UNIVERSITIES SHOULD FOLLOW SINGAPORE EXAMPLE IN EQUIPPING GRADUATES FOR WORK, SAY EXPERTS
INCREASINGLY, the success of universities is being measured by the number of employable graduates they turn out every year – by this metric south east Asian universities are failing. Indeed, when a recent global ranking found that only one university within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was within the top-20 higher education institutes worldwide in terms of their graduates securing good jobs, experts have called for reform.…
MORE SUPPORT NEEDED FOR ADVANCED BIOFUELS, EXPERTS SAY
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers finally committed, on December 18, (2017), to a target of reaching at least 27% renewable energy out of overall energy consumption by 2030. While lower than the 45% or 30% demanded by green groups and the European Commission respectively, the biofuels industry has declared that its output should be instrumental in meeting this goal.…
EUROPEAN CAR MANUFACTURERS WELCOME AGREEMENT ON TYPE-APPROVAL RULES
THE EUROPEAN car industry has welcomed a deal struck over future European Union (EU) automobile type approval rules between the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers. The agreement reached on Thursday (December 7) on a reformed system for approving vehicles before they are placed on the EU market should see the new rules applying from September 1, 2020.…
INDONESIA SEEKS GREATER ACCESS TO EU, US FOR ITS TEXTILE PRODUCTS
THE EXECUTIVE secretary of the Indonesian Textile Association (API – Asosiasi Pertekstilan Indonesia) has said that he hopes his government will make progress next year in forging trade deals with the USA and European Union (EU), boosting textile exports to these key markets.…