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EU COMMISSION THREATENS LEGAL ACTION OVER AIRPORT CHARGING IN BELGIUM AND POLAND
THE EUROPEAN Commission has threatened European Court of Justice (ECJ) legal action against Belgium and Poland over claims they have broken the European Union (EU) airport charges directive (2009/12/EC). The Commission says Belgium has failed to establish an independent supervisory authority to settle charge disputes between airports and airlines, as required by the law.…
CENTRAL AMERICA MARKET REPORT
MEXICO and central America are often regarding as manufacturing centres for the USA, the world’s largest personal care product country. And while it remains true that brands take advantage of lower costs in these countries to make competitive exports, Mexico (population 122 million) and the seven countries of central America (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras and Panama – population 45 million) are significant markets in their own right.…
POLISH GOVERNMENT PUSHES EU FOR CONCERTED ACTION TO HELP PIGMEAT TRADE
Poland has requested measures to help boost its struggling pigmeat sector at an European Council of Minsters’ agriculture and fisheries meeting, expressing “deep concern at the development of the situation in the pigmeat market.
A document circulated to EU ministers by the Polish delegation to the council said additional financial resources, or “exceptional support”, from the EU for the pigmeat sector to compensate for producers’ continuing losses resulting from Russia’s embargo and a drought in 2015.…
EASTERN EUROPEAN PERSONAL CARE PRODUCT SECTOR AND MARKET SHRUGS OFF STAGNATION
It has taken more than half a decade for the cosmetics markets of eastern Europe to finally shrug off a long-running period stagnation that has characterised the regional market. Two underlying features – the financial crisis of 2008 and the completion of multinational takeovers in the noughties that saturated these post-communist markets – lay behind the extended period of slow, low or non-existent growth.…
E-COMMERCE GROWTH DRIVES INNOVATION AMONG CHINESE BRICKS-AND-MORTAR PERSONAL CARE PRODUCT RETAILERS
Chinese consumers are buying more of their cosmetics online on China’s top two ecommerce sites Tmall.com and JD.com and also specialist sites Lefung.com, Tiantian.com and Jumei.com, forcing bricks-and-mortar own brand retailers to rethink their strategy. Market leading retailer – AS Watson, a Hong Kong-based chain which operates 14,000 stores in greater China and worldwide and which sells a wide range of Watson’s own brand personal care products, has also been adjusting to compete.…
MCDONALD'S LOSES BRANCHES IN FINLAND AS RIVALS PUSH FOR MARKET SHARE
COMPETING fastfood chains are snapping at McDonald’s heels in Finland as the global player closes branches. McDonald’s now has just 72 outlets after chopping 10 in 2015. The remainder largely consists of franchises (59) with the rest owned by the Finnish subsidiary (13).…
ONLINE TRAWLS UNMASKS ILLICIT AND UNAUTHORISED PERSONAL CARE PRODUCT SALES
Online sales of unbranded personal care products that are either clearly counterfeit or sold in a way that alludes to an established brand are legion, as the industry well knows.
But how easy is it to spot such products on the internet?…
TECHNICAL ROUND UP – BRUSSELS DETAILS UPCOMING EU VAT REFORMS
BRUSSELS DETAILS UPCOMING EU VAT REFORMS
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released a statement outlining the subject of planned VAT legislative proposals to be made next year (2016). These will reduce the administrative burden on businesses through VAT regimes varying between European Union (EU) member states.…
IMPACT OF RUSSIA FOOD IMPORT BANS VARY ACROSS EU
EUROPEAN Union (EU) member states have suffered unevenly from Russia’s ban on EU food exports from last August, according to European Commission data.
While Finnish and Estonian extra-EU food and drink exports fell sharply in August-November 2014 compared to the same period in 2013 (32% and 22% down respectively), other EU food exporters saw only moderate falls in such sales, or even gains.…
BRUSSELS EXTRA SPENDS TO PROMOTE EU MEAT SALES IN FACE OF RUSSIAN BAN
THE POLISH, Scottish, Austrian and Belgian meat sectors are significant winners in the latest announcement of European Union (EU) marketing financing designed to help food companies seize more sales within and outside the EU.
They will benefit from multi-million Euro sales and marketing programmes, 50% funded by the EU, announced yesterday (Tues April 21).…