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BY KATE REW
AMERICAN bra manufacturers are responding to growing demand from larger women who are no longer content to wear cumbersome, corset-like structures but would prefer flimsier, sexier bras which are both comfortable and flatter their fuller figures. For a long time this market, which stands at around 40 per cent of intimate wear and is growing all the time, has been overlooked, according to Joyce Baran, Vice President of Merchandising and Design, Liz Claiborne Intimates.…

BY KATE REW
AMERICAN bra manufacturers are responding to growing demand from larger women who are no longer content to wear cumbersome, corset-like structures but would prefer flimsier, sexier bras which are both comfortable and flatter their fuller figures. For a long time this market, which stands at around 40 per cent of intimate wear and is growing all the time, has been overlooked, according to Joyce Baran, Vice President of Merchandising and Design, Liz Claiborne Intimates.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in Westminster
A NUMBER of new products and services designed to improve internet security have been announced at the Information Security Solutions Europe 2001 conference in London, against a background of growing world-wide concern over on-line security following the terror attacks on America.…

Alan Osborne
THE INTRODUCTION of e-commerce into the European Union, already disappointingly slow, is further threatened by the failure so far of the 15 member countries to adopt the European Electronic Signature Directive, delegates to the Information Security Solutions Europe 2001 conference at the QE2 centre in London have been told.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared a planned Spanish publishing joint venture between Germany’s Bertelsmann and Arnoldo Mondadori Editore SpA, of Italy, combining all the book publishing divisions and imprints in Spain and Latin America of Random House and Mondadori.…

BY KATE REW
ENVIRONMENTAL group Friends of the Earth has criticised legislation being considered last week before the US House of Representatives, claiming that they would authorise more than US$33 billion over ten years in new and expanded subsidies for the oil, coal, gas and nuclear power industries.…

BY RICHARD HURST
SOUTH African Synthetic fuels company, SASOL is reported to be actively seeking further foreign acquisitions in the EU and north America, following its purchase of Germany’s Condea. A spokesman for SASOL said, “It remains the company’s corporate growth strategy to look for at synergistic alliances and joint-ventures on a global basis.”…

Keith Nuthall
What now for the “Havana Club” rum brand name after this month’s

ruling by a panel of the World Trade Organisation in the dispute between

the European Union and the US ? Both sides have claimed a victory of

sorts out of the split ruling, though both agree the struggle is far from

over.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN book sector has seen its share of turbulence in the past 12 months. Last summer Larry Stevenson, a young, successful businessman at the helm of Chapters, the country’s largest book retailer, was pondering ways in which to expand the company further.…

BY KATE REW
BRA manufacturers in the United States are responding to the growing demand from larger women who are no longer content to wear cumbersome, corset-like structures, but would prefer flimsier, sexier bras which are both comfortable and flatter their fuller figures.…