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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...
...The tradition has been carried on atop the Freitag tower, the stack of containers in Zürich-West (2006).)...
...And the cause is the knotty subject of returning works of art that have been on international loan....
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...Rising costs and falling demand saw many mills close, while others were forced to lower or cease production of graphic papers – which are used for books, newspapers and magazines like this one – in favour...
...Ben & Jerry’s was one of the last Unilever brands to add the group’s logo to its packaging....
...Using less packaging on just one brand of toys could save $2.4mn a year, Scott observed....
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...(Patrick Temple-West) Graphic of the week ‘Mind-boggling’ heatwave breaks records in western US The global warming crisis is punishing North America’s pacific coast, traditionally a source of cool respite...
...Weekly Toyo Keizai magazine estimates that Japan Inc will face a shortfall of 3,000 outside directors next year....
...Japan Inc has domestic support to be more vocal on controversial issues, too....
...Automation an automatic choiceJapan Inc has found a new purpose for automation: business continuity in the uncertain era of Covid-19....
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...Smaller rival Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co, China’s biggest contract chipmaker, is looking at building similarly advanced chip packaging capacity and has ordered equipment from some of TSMC...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 28 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...We support them in six different action areas: energy, waste, packaging, product design, regenerative agriculture [and] forest management....
...Read more A rise in kidnappings off the west African coast could raise the cost of shipping....
...Brent, the international marker, fell 2 cents to $43.08 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate, the US benchmark, dropped by a penny to $40.62 a barrel....
...The change has been widely welcomed by international investors as it will align China more closely with global standards....
...The LID risks playing havoc with confectioners’ hedging strategies and boosting the attraction of neighbouring West African producers to confectioners....
...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...
...(Patrick Temple-West) Legal milestone on ESG rating Last week the Institute of International Finance released a survey showing that financial companies are fed up with the confusion around ESG ratings...
...If you’re wondering how far the big consumer packaged goods companies have gone in tackling their plastic problem, the graphic above sets it out....
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