#Ireland: Irish #manufacturing activity grows at slowest pace in eight months in Jan

Investec survey shows new export orders, which hit five-year high in December, fell back in January

Irish manufacturing activity expanded at the slowest pace in eight months in January, according to the Investec Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index. Photo: Alan Betson/ The Irish Times

 

Irish manufacturing activity expanded at the slowest pace in eight months in January as growth in output and orders at home and from abroad eased, a survey showed on Monday... (read more)

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#Ireland: Strong growth continues for #mushroomindustry

Teagasc has worked with growers to build the sector into a huge export industry

Raymond Codd of Codd Mushrooms: the mushroom industry is worth more than €112 million and now employs more than 3,200 people in Ireland

The mushroom industry in Ireland is acknowledged to be one of the best in the world. It is the largest horticultural sector in Ireland and is worth more than €112 million, of which nearly 75 per cent is exported to Britain. It employs more than 3,200 people, mainly in Monaghan, Cavan and Tipperary, as well as Kildare, Meath and Carlow, contributing significantly to the economies of these areas... (Read more)

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#Ireland: #USmarket for #Irishbeef may not live up to Minister’s expectations

Industry observers suggest potential for Irish producers limited

Simon Coveney’s suggestion that the US market could take up to 20,000 tonnes of Irish beef in 2015, worth up to €100 million, and “go way beyond that”, is considered by many as too optimistic

Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney has overstated the importance of Ireland’s re-entry into the US beef market, according to senior industry sources... (Read more)

#Russia: #Roublerecovers as authorities step up support

Currency climbs in value as threat to country’s financial stability eases

An employee counts Russian ruble banknotes at a private company’s office in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. Photograph: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters

Russia’s rouble strengthened on Friday after finance minister Anton Siluanov confirmed his ministry had sold foreign currency and on expectations that exporters will step up dollar sales... (Read more)

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#México: La #platamexicana pierde brillo

El descenso de precios de los metales y la subida de impuestos lastran al primer productor

Una mina de plata en Zacatecas, México. / Bloomberg

La tierra lo ha gestado por siglos. Y la tradición lo ha convertido en riqueza. Las poblaciones prehispánicas de México ya conocían el valor de los minerales diseminados con exuberancia por todo lo largo y ancho del subsuelo. Se cimentaron en el arte refinado de la orfebrería y hasta donaron maravillas de oro y plata a los recién llegados de la otra orilla del Atlántico. La opulencia de minerales, culpable de haber manchado de sangre las tierras indígenas, es ahora una de las fortalezas industriales del país. México, el primer productor de plata del mundo y una de las principales potencias mineras del continente, está pasando hoy día por una mala racha. Los responsables: la drástica bajada de los precios de los metales y una repentina subida de impuestos dictada por el Gobierno central... (Lea más)

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#Ireland: Simon Coveney hails ‘exciting’ end to #milkquotas

Atmosphere in dairy industry ‘like the night before Christmas’

Dom Moran, secretary general of the Department of Agriculture with Minister Simon Coveney and Gerry Boyle, director of Teagasc, at the National Dairy Conference. Photograph: John T Ohle

The ending of the milk quota regime next March will be the most important and exciting development to hit rural Ireland in a generation, the Minister for Agriculture has said... (Read more)

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#Germanbusiness confidence declines further

Survey of managers revealed deep pessimism about the economy

Containers are loaded onto a container ship at a shipping terminal in the harbour in Hamburg. German business confidence continues to decline. Photograph: Reuters/Fabian Bimmer

Germany’s business climate cooled for the sixth straight month in October, pushing confidence in Europe’s largest economy to levels not seen since the crisis days of December 2012... (Read more)

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#Ireland: #irishfarmers blockade meat factories in protest over #cattleprices

Processors say 24-hour action ‘unnecessary, misguided and counterproductive’

Farmers led by IFA president Eddie Downey (front left) and IFA national livestock chairman Henry Burns at the Department of Agriculture in June during a protest over cattle prices. Photograph: Finbarr O’Rourke

Farmers have begun a 24-hour blockade on meat factories in a protest at what they claim are low cattle prices... (Read more)

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#Ireland failing to tackle corruption in #exportcountries

Report shows few countries taking steps to stamp out corruption in corporate world

The study finds that just four out of 41 exporter countries who signed up to the OECD anti-bribery convention 15 years ago are actively investigating and prosecuting companies that cheat taxpayers

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Ireland is among a number of exporter countries accused of doing little or nothing to stamp out corruption in the business world... (Read more)

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#Ireland: Europe’s Irish presence in the #transatlanticcorridor

David O’Sullivan, the new EU ambassador to the US, is assuming the role at an important political moment

David O’Sullivan: the chief operating officer of the European Union’s diplomatic corps, the European External Action Service

Sitting in his office in the European External Action Services (EEAS) headquarters in central Brussels, David O’Sullivan apologises for the bareness of the room. Most of his belongings have already been shipped to Washington, he explains. The distinctive blue flag of the European Union is still there, however, soon to be joined by the stars and stripes of the US flag as the Churchtown native prepares to take up his new role as EU ambassador... (Read more)

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#Ireland - New #Innovators: Powerful Yogurt

Irepak prepares to launch high-protein, fat-free product next month

Irepak’s Robert Doyle says Powerful Yogurt, a high-protein, fat-free product, will go on sale from mid-November.

Food products with added protein is a growing market within the international food industry. Now Kildare-based start-up, Irepak, is about to enter the segment with the launch of a new, high-protein yogurt... (Read more)

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#Italia: Berlino ignora i richiami dell'#Ue: a luglio l'#export vola oltre 100 miliardi

La Germania continua a spingere l'acceleratore sulle esportazioni, mentre calano le importazioni: Bruxelles, come il Fmi, aveva ammonito il governo a sostenere i consumi dei Paesi più deboli, ma le richieste sono cadute nel vuoto

Il ministro tedesco delle Finanze, Wolfgang Schaeuble

BERLINO - Al diavolo la paura dell'effetto di sanzioni alla Russia e, al tempo stesso, tanto peggio per le richieste del Fondo monetario internazionale (Fmi), della Commissione europea e di economisti critici, di importare di più per sostenere i più deboli in Europa. Eh sì, al diavolo e tanto peggio: perché i dati forniti stamane dallo Statistisches Bundesamt, l'Ufficio federale di... (Leggete tutta la storia qui)

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