business
Jun 15th, 2010
Vietnam’s Participation in WTO, Rising Consumer Price Index, Increasing Income Have Positive Impact on Country’s Pharmaceutical Market
In 2007 Pharmaceutical industry in Vietnam produced $600 mln worth volume of medications (16.5% more than in 2006). However, due to the economic recession in 2009 this growth started to slow down.
According to the forecasts, in 2019 per capita expenditure on medicine in Vietnam will rise from $16,13 (the level of 2008) to $60,30.
Today Pharmaceutical...
Mar 17th, 2010
UK Government Invests in Nuclear Component Plant
The British government will lend 80 million pounds ($120 million)to a steelworks to help it build a major new manufacturing facility for nuclear power plant components, the business minister said on Wednesday.
Peter Mandelson said the loan to Sheffield Forgemasters, which will be complemented by funding from U.S.-based firm Westinghouse, was part of a strategy to...
Mar 2nd, 2010
Europe Has “Solid Case” on China Shoe Dumping Taxes
The European Commission has a “very solid case” in its imposition of anti-dumping measures against shoes from China and Vietnam, European Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht said Tuesday.
Beijing has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization accusing the European Union of imposing illegal duties on Chinese shoes.
“We think we have a very solid case...
Mar 2nd, 2010
WRAPUP 2-Europe car sales up in Feb., but tough times ahead
French car sales up 17.8 percent in Feb to 179,926 units
Italian car sales up 20.6 percent to 200,560 units
Spanish car sales up 47 percent
Toyota sales relatively unscathed (Adds Italian car sales, Toyota sales details)
MADRID/PARIS/MILAN - Car sales rose sharply in France, Italy and Spain in February as scrappage programs lifted business, but European carmakers are...
Feb 17th, 2010
European Union - Pig prices
The price increases range from plus 2 cents in Denmark to plus 5 cents in Belgium and the Netherlands. France too has reported notable price increases for the first time after weeks of hardly changed prices. In Sweden alone the prices remained unchanged. Great Britain was the only country to note down a price decrease....
Jan 22nd, 2010
Europe Economy Faces ‘Subtrend Growth’ Into Next Year, S&P Says
The European economy will see “subtrend growth” this year and through the first half of 2011 as consumer spending languishes and banks continue to curtail lending, Standard & Poor’s said.
“Our growth outlook over the next 12 to 18 months remains somewhat pessimistic,” Jean-Michel Six, S&P’s chief European economist in Paris, said in a note today....
Jul 21st, 2009
CNOOC to Invest $370 mln in petchem JV
LG will hold 50 percent of plant with CNOOC
Plant will produce 300,000 tonnes of ABS by 2013
$300 mln in sales targetted by 2012, $600 mln by 2014 (Adds details)
South Korea’s LG Chem (051910.KS: Quote, Profile, Research) and state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) will invest a total of $370 million to build a petrochemical...
Feb 27th, 2009
New Industry Business Reports 2009 Now Available at MarketPublishers.com
LONDON-MarketPublishers prepared a range of Industry Business Reports 2009 studies ( http://marketpublishers.com/ibreports2009) on key industries in more than 70 countries of the World. Each Business Report provides a thorough focus on an individual industry in a country with latest market data updated in respect to current economic situation.
Industry business reports present a powerful tool aiming...