City of Grasse, France, to convert property development land to fragrance flower cultivation

Grasse’s new zoning plan, approved last week, reclassified 21% of municipal land into farmland, compared to 4% beforehand; building development rights were frozen and natural areas were reclassified, Grasse Deputy General Manager of Urban Planning Nathalie Campana told AFP.The total extent of farmland grew from 178 to 928 hectares, of which 70 have already been ring-fenced for the cultivation…

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Gen Phoenix is ELeather’s new name, links with Tapestry, Dr Martens

The new name for the UK-based firm is “inspired by the cyclical regeneration of the phoenix” as the company “gives new life to leather waste by transforming it into a sustainable alternative”.And the new money will allow it “to expand into new consumer-facing markets, after making significant impact to date in tackling the world’s large-scale waste problem”. 

The investment…

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For some British business owners, EU membership is losing its appeal

Four decades ago Britons voted decisively to stay in the European “common market”, the precursor of the modern EU which has become a major economic and political force as well as a trading bloc.But sitting in the showroom of his Over2Hills business in the Yorkshire town of Cleckheaton, Simpson says Europe has changed for the worse since the last referendum in 1975.

“As a younger man, I th…

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France hoping to resolve digital tax spat this week

“We are ready to make steps towards the United States, and we have already proposed a certain number of measures. We hope to reach a resolution by Wednesday,” Le Maire told LCI television on Monday, adding he would meet U.Sคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. counterparts at the Davos World Economic …

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Glossier announces temporary closures, postpones Arizona opening due to coronavirus

Emily Weiss, the chief executive officer and founder of Glossier, explained the decision via a statement on the Glossier website. “We’ve made the difficult decision to close all our current permanent and temporary retail locations (New York, Los Angeles, London, and Atlanta) for at least the next two weeks to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19,” Weiss said.คำพูดจาก Read more

Amazon seeks to pause antitrust review of 2019 deal with India’s Future, documents show

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) in June accused Amazon of concealing facts and making false submissions when it sought approval for the $200 million investment into a Future unit in 2019, a deal that is now at the heart of protracted legal disputes between the two sides.Amazon told Reuters at the time that it was confident of addressing the watchdog’s concerns.The Supreme Court approa…

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Germany to restrict Facebook’s data gathering activities

Germany, where privacy concerns run deep, is in the forefront of a global backlash against Facebook, fueled by last year’s Cambridge Analytica scandal in which tens of millions of Facebook profiles were harvested without their users’ consent.The country’s antitrust watchdog objected in particular to how Facebook pools data on people from third-party apps – including its own WhatsApp and I…

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Millennial and Gen-Z shoppers to up spending in Holiday 2018

 77% of all those surveyed said that they were planning to spend the same as usual or more over the 2018 holiday period. However, a larger proportion of younger consumers were found to be planning to spend more than usual, with 43% of 18 to 24-year-olds saying that they intended to do so, along with 38% of 25 to 34-year-olds. By contrast, only 9% of those 65 and over said that they planned to…

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Modi’s clampdown on e-commerce in India may not win back votes of small retailers

From Feb. 1, e-commerce firms such as Amazon.com and Walmart-owned Flipkart Group will not be able to sell products from companies in which they have an equity interest or form exclusive agreements with sellers.Intended to prevent predatory pricing and deep discounting, the curbs follows intense lobbying by India’s many millions of small shopkeepers and the middlemen who serve them, particularl…

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‘Pink Star’ diamond set to fetch record price in Hong Kong

The 59.60-carat “Pink Star” is the largest in its class ever graded by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA)คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. But Sotheby’s was been forced to buy back the flawless diamond after a previous buyer defaulted on what was then a record sale in 2013.That sale in Gene…

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