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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...Last week, a verdict was passed down in the case of Walkers Snack Foods Ltd v Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, with first-tier tribunal judges Anne Fairpo and Sonia Gable ruling against...
...“They can see how rough Turner was,” says Thomas....
...His mother was a Time Inc executive, and his father a Washington diplomat who worked for the US Agency for International Development....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on December 8 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...Automation an automatic choiceJapan Inc has found a new purpose for automation: business continuity in the uncertain era of Covid-19....
...This graphic from Société Générale highlights the divergence between factors and the less than comforting V-shaped outlook for earnings over the next 24 months: Andrew Lapthorne at SocGen notes: “Time...
...Chart 2: But deteriorating lending standards have raised eyebrows among regulators including the Fed and the International Monetary Fund....
...Explore the work of sound artists, metal workers, graphic designers, furniture makers and ceramicists....
...An international court has ordered Philip Morris to pay substantial legal fees to the Australian government following the tobacco giant’s failed legal battle against plain packaging laws....
...“It’s like something out of Tron,” says the show’s director, Christopher Turner....
...Graphics by Federica Cocco and Steven Bernard....
...Philip Morris International, British American Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco and Japan Tobacco International, who brought the challenge, all argue that they are being deprived of their intellectual property without...
...“Both the V&A and the Design Museum want to be part of it,” Turner replies. “But this biennale will be about ideas [more than objects]....
...Analysts suggested the change in packaging norms would weigh on volume growth over the long term, with pressure from illicit cigarette sales also limiting the room for price increases....
...Fiona Nash, minister for rural health, said: “Plain packaging is a legitimate public health measure which is consistent with Australia’s international legal obligations.”...
...Social media now sends almost as much traffic to news sites as Google — 36 per cent v 41 per cent. Traffic diversion on this scale poses a dilemma for publishers....
...Vulnerable non-smokers, especially children and adolescents, are not immune to the effects of attractive packaging whenever they are presented with it....
...Instead, all packs are a drab brown-green colour with prominent health warnings and graphic images, typically of smoking related diseases....
...Demand for corrugated boxes has risen sharply alongside internet shopping and the merged company will be the second-largest US packaging company behind International Paper....
...Canberra faces a legal challenge from tobacco industry at the Permanent Court of Arbitration – an international investment tribunal – over plain packaging....
...On Tuesday Ireland followed Australia and New Zealand to become the third country to commit to forcing tobacco companies to sell their products in plain packets carrying graphic health warnings....
...BAT was vociferous in its opposition to plain packaging legislation in Australia. In the UK, Japan Tobacco International led the fight against plain packaging – at times with too much zeal....
...Philip Morris International, the makers of Marlboro, the world’s best-selling cigarette brand, has won the right to take its case against marketing restrictions and graphic health warnings in the South American...
...The law, approved by parliament last year, requires cigarettes to be sold in drab dark packaging from December, without logos but featuring graphic images of smoking-related diseases....
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