Counterfeiting of consumer goods has gone beyond the leading brands of bags or sneakers and now includes batteries, light bulbs and extension cords.
Business Issues
Food Producers Encouraged To Tap Huge Halal Market
Anyone who has the business acumen in food production or exportation are duly encouraged to capture a share of a huge global halal market and trade estimated between $580 billion to $1.20 trillion.
World Food Prices Will Remain At Above Average Levels
The world’s poorest nations are most vulnerable, particularly the urban poor in food importing countries, and will require increase humanitarian aid to stave off hunger and undernourishment, a joint agricultural outlook by the Organized for Economic Cooperation and Development and the UN Food and Agricultural Organization sites.
Raw Materials For Refractory Industry Has Risen Up
The internal demand in China and its imposition of higher export taxes on magnesium oxide and bauxite, two sensitive materials needed by factories in their manufacture of refractory products.
Reforms In Credit Card Industry Pushed
A plan to regulate of what is called an unfair or deceptive billing practices by credit card companies is in the offing.
Lobbying For Favorable Policies – A Multi Billion Dollar Industry
A study from a watchdog group on Washington lobbying, corporations, unions and other interests spent a record setting 2.79 billion US dollars in 2007.