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BY MARK ROWE
PEPSICO, which is marking 50 years of operations in the Middle East, finds itself at something of a crossroads. An all-American company, in a region where anti-Americanism has rarely been so widespread, it faces several challenges to ensure that it will continue to operate successfully in the Middle East for a further half a century.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) energy ministers have agreed new rules for applying value added tax to cross-border gas supplies that will reduce confusion created by increasing cross-border trading in energy supplies. Now, traders re-selling supplies who are not established in the same country as the supplier will pay VAT through an obligatory reverse charge system.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THERE is strong optimism in north America that an animal vaccine could soon be developed for the deadly strain of E coli bacteria sometimes referred to as hamburger disease. A US-Canada team has found positive results in research studies where vaccinated cattle showed a 59 per cent reduction of E coli O157:H7 in their manure compared with unvaccinated cattle in a University of Nebraska research facility in tests carried out during the summers of 2002 and 2003.…

BY PHILIP FINE

IN the changing America of leaner Chicken McNuggets and a fervency to lower

the country’s collective weight, getting told to shape up seems to have

extended to a US government anti-obesity campaign. Last year, the Centers

for Disease Control launched a multi-media advertising blitz aimed at

getting children to become more active, carrying the theme "Verb, it’s what

you do."…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
WHAT price safety? Ports and shippers racing to comply with an extremely tight deadline to meet the new International Marine Organisation security requirements are still not sure what the final bill will be. However, with the newly added SOLAS (safety of life at sea convention) special measures and the also new International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) code due to come into effect on 1 July 2004, those who are not already well down the line to meeting the requirements will find the costs rising sharply as demand for security services steps up.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL in Paris, ALAN OSBORN in London, MARK ROWE in Singapore, ED PETERS and DON GASPER in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane and ALEX SMAILES in Port of Spain.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S Sleeman Breweries Ltd. has announced it is expanding its 2002 agreement with Tokyo-based Sapporo Breweries to include worldwide production of the Japanese beer in its distinctive 650 ml “Silver Can.”

Currently, Ontario-based Sleeman produces Sapporo bottled products for the United States market, where Sapporo remains the number one selling Japanese beer.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has published a comprehensive analysis of the world’s forest products industry and markets. With the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation, it has released Forest Products Annual Market Analysis, 2002-2004. It covers forest products market and policy developments in Europe, north America and the former Soviet Union.…

BY PHILIP FINE

BLUE jeans-maker Levi Strauss will close its last manufacturing and

finishing plants in north America. The 150-year old company plans to close its sewing and finishing operations in San Antonio, Texas, by the year-end, costing some 800 jobs.…

BY PHILIP FINE

WITH profits down and a flooded chicken market, America’s Tyson Foods, the world’s largest meat producer, is planning to sack more than a third of its Arkansas plant workforce. The company says it will be outsourcing the work of the 600 dismissed unionised workers, who mainly removed bones from chicken carcasses.…