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BY MONICA DOBIE
BEER drinkers in Canada can now order their own personalised bottles, with their own picture or original design appearing on the label.

The Labatt Brewing Company has begun a marketing campaign which sells a case of 12 “vanity beer” bottles for CAN$45.95 plus 13 dollars for delivery.…

Keith Nuthall
THE CANADIAN government has sought to dispel fears that it has unfairly retained trade restrictions on textile and clothing imports from China and Taiwan following last year’s decision to allow them to join the World Trade Organisation. In two letters to the WTO’s Textile Monitoring Bureau, Ottawa has claimed that remaining “quantitative restraints” comply with the two new members’ accession deals and the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ONTARIO’S tobacco auctions have been wrapped up for the 2001 crop, which has proved to be a successful year for growers in the key Canadian province, being blessed with a very dry summer.

A tally of 117,094,080 pounds of tobacco was sold at an average price of CAN$1.79 per pound, up two cents from last year.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
MITSUBISHI Motor Sales of Canada has announced it will move its operations into Canada in September, six months ahead of scheduled date. Greg O’Neill, executive vice president and general manager of Mitsubishi Motor Sales of America Inc.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
RESEARCHERS in Alberta, Canada, have discovered a novel and potentially revolutionary way to simultaneously sanitise two environmental hazards common to all oil producing regions that are also home to extensive beef industries: hydrocarbon contaminated earth and cattle dung.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN meat producers in Alberta are using their livestock excrement to heal contaminated soil caused by leaks from oil and gas exploration.

Researchers at colleges in Lethbridge and Olds, Alberta, have found that contaminated earth mixed with raw cattle or poultry manure, which was turned repeatedly to introduce oxygen to the mix, developed micro-organisms, (fungus and molds), getting to work to break down hardened hydrocarbons.…

BY PHILIP FINE

GUINNESS UDV is facing federal regulatory scrutiny in the United States after a competitor complained that its Smirnoff Ice TM malt based product misleads consumers, because in the US, it does not contain vodka; the New York State advertising industry’s self-regulatory apparatus has now referred the matter to the US Federal Trade Commission and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms after Guinness refused to take part in the review.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S beef export industry is pursuing Asia as a potential market, in order to loosen its dependence on the United States.

Marketing managers are looking to exploit a new niche; western-style steak houses that started becoming popular in Taiwan three years ago, and are now spreading throughout the far east.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S booksellers are expecting very profitable sales for Christmas, banking on the general public’s need to reflect and have quieter family time over this particular holiday season.

“Christmas will be good, very good. People are cocooning and books are wonderful to cocoon with,” said Richard King of Paragraph Bookstore in Montreal, one of the city’s larger bookstores.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
WHAT is the region with the highest port consumption in the world? A fair assumption would be Portugal or maybe England, but actually, it is the French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec.

Port sales in the Canadian province have exploded from 276,000 750 ml bottles in 1995, to an estimated 3 million this year.…