by admin | May 25, 2021 | Muslim World
Khartoum : Vice President of Sudan Dr Osman Mohamed Yousif Kibir stressed the importance of deepening partnership with the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), noting the significance of the intellectual property and its tools in the economic, social and cultural role in the country.
During his meeting here on Sunday with WIPO Deputy Director General John Sandage, Kibir called on the Organization to support the intellectual property in Sudan and to cooperate in the spreading of the culture of intellectual property and patents in the country through capacity building.
Registrar General of the Intellectual Property of the Ministry of Justice Adul-Khalid Hilal said in a press statement that Sandage’s visit to Sudan has witnessed intensive activities. They included a meeting with the minister of justice; holding a workshop on capacity building and patents; ways to transform from the local to international level via Sudan’s membership in the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT); outcome of registration and protection in the national, regional and international levels; and the role of patent in technology transfer.
On his part, Sandage expressed appreciation of Sudan’s progress in intellectual property as well as the support of the state for the promotion of the intellectual property and the use of its tools.
It is noteworthy that the visit of the WIPO deputy director general to Khartoum comes in response to an invitation extended to him last September by the minister.
—AB/UNA-OIC
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Business, Large Enterprise
Beijing, (IANS) Nestle and Alibaba on Sunday announced plans to upgrade their partnership.
The world’s largest food retailer will launch its biggest e-commerce campaign ever with its diverse products, spanning 30 brands from coffee to baby formula, being sold on Alibaba’s expansive e-commerce platforms such as Tmall, Xinhua reported.
“Our partnership with Alibaba is all about the consumer. What is so exciting about China as a market is not only its size or population, but that Chinese consumers are a step ahead of consumers in other markets in the digital way they consume,” Wan Ling Martello, executive vice president with Nestle overseeing the Asian, Oceanian and African markets, said in a conference marking the company’s 150-year anniversary.
China is the right place to start Nestle’s next 150-year growth story as Chinese consumers have a more developed understanding and are quicker to adopt new consumption technologies than their global peers and have great passion for innovation, she added.
China’s consumption pattern and manner have evolved fast and consumption is becoming increasingly digital with more young consumers choosing to shop online, said Zhang Yong, Alibaba CEO.
The volume of online purchases surged by more than 12 times from January 2011 to April 2016 in China, while per capita consumption grew by 27 percent, according to a joint report released by Alibaba’s financial services platform Ant Financial and a private economics research institute.
Nestle strengthened its global capabilities in e-commerce by signing a strategic cooperation partnership with Alibaba in late 2015 to increase its online sales and build its brands. In 2015, half of Nestle’s sales in China were online.