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Doing Business in Spain

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Bordering countries include Andorra, France, Gibraltar, Portugal and Morocco. Manufacturing in Spain. Spain manufactures textiles and apparel, footwear, food and beverages, metals, chemicals, automobiles, machine tools, medical equipment, footwear, pharmaceuticals, clay and refractory products. and the U.S.

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Doing Business in Portugal

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With 1,793 km of coastline, Portugal has a long history as a seafaring country and once had colonies all over the world. Its capital city, Lisbon, was almost completely destroyed in an earthquake in 1755, and later, Portugal endured years of revolution and occupation before democratic reforms were put in place in 1974.

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XPO Logistics (XPO) to Acquire Con-way (CNW)

Supply Chain Network

The acquired operations serve blue chip customers in verticals such as high tech, healthcare and retail, complementing XPO’s expertise in aerospace, retail, telecom, agriculture, chemicals and food and beverage. • Cross-border growth is projected to outperform industry growth, due to the near-shoring of manufacturing. •

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Hemming in Apparel Microfibres

EHS Sustainability Knowledge at Work

Such micro-plastics have been detected in fish, crustaceans and bivalve molluscs from the English Channel, North Sea, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Portugal, Indonesia, California and the North Pacific Central Gyre. So, it will fall on textile manufacturers, fashion brands and washing-machine makers to come up with the answers.

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