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India’s “Booming” Middle Class

In the second of our series of posts on Asian demographics, we look at India. Yesterday, we summarised the overall challenges.    By John Richardson INDIA is the home of a booming middle class that voraciously consumes I-Phones, I-Pads, BMWs, foreign travel etc – all the trappings of a Western lifestyle. All that the chemicals industry […]

China’s Luxury Goods Risk

  By John Richardson THE “luxury end” of China’s polyethylene (PE) market is being heavily targeted by overseas producers and the results so far have been pretty spectacular, according to one of the producers. “The annual growth in demand for higher value grades has been tremendous – two times GDP,” said a senior executive with […]

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