pollution

Retail Asia20/02/2019

Korea’s air purifier market has tripled since 2016 thanks to worsening fine-dust pollution levels and growing health concerns. Last year, Koreans bought 1.8 million air purifiers worth around 760 billion won ($676 million), according to market researcher GfK. In 2016, Koreans only purchased 698,000 purifiers for 220 billion won. The research company noted that, unlike […]

Retail Asia19/11/2018

In a bid to reduce global air pollution, Swedish home furnishing company IKEA last week announced its plan to turn rice straws into a new renewable material source for its products. The project, part of the company’s ‘Better Air Now’ initiative, will begin from India and is focussed on New Delhi, Gurugram and Faridabad which are among […]

Retail Asia17/03/2016

With a theme of risk takers and growth makers it was inevitable that anecdotes about Australian business and China would feature heavily at The Australian Financial Review Business Summit, presented by BHP Billiton. China presents risks that are beyond the pale for boards of directors of most S&P ASX 200 companies and for many influential […]

Retail Asia08/05/2015

A Chinese joint venture of U.S.-based J.R. Simplot, which supplies frozen french fries to McDonald’s, was fined 3.92 million yuan ($632,370) on Wednesday by the Beijing city government for water pollution, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The Beijing government found the venture had been discharging contaminated waste water that exceeded stipulated levels, according to […]

Tag: pollution

Air purifier sales shoot up as fine dust worries shoppers

IKEA to turn pollution-causing rice straws into products in India

Risk takers and growth makers look to China

McDonald’s supplier fined for pollution in China