Archive for March, 2006

AUSTRALIA: Private label goes up-market

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

exerpt:
… The new private label varieties will cover a broader range of products and have a more visible identity than existing house brand products, which often have a low price and correspondingly cheap image. Previously, private label in Australia was largely synonymous with high-volume low-price staples, such as sugar, birdseed, butter, flour and vegetable oil.
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Uganda: Coffee, Tea, Fish Earned Big in 2005

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

COFFEE, tea and fish were major export earners for Uganda last year.
According to the Producer Price Index released by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday, the trio earned the economy $349,909,000 (about Shs637.3b).
A Producer Price Index (PPI) is a measure of the rate of change in the prices of goods and services bought and […]