COSMETIC INDUSTRY

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which regulates cosmetics in the United States^[1] defines cosmetics as: "intended to be applied to the human body for cleansing, beautifying, promoting attractiveness, or altering the appearance without affecting the body's structure or functions."
Cosmetic products are important consumer products with an essential role in everyone's life: apart from "traditional" cosmetic products, such as make-up and perfumes, it also includes products for personal hygiene, for example tooth-care products, shampoos and soaps.
Today's cosmetic market is driven by innovation , treatments for diferent types of skins, new colour pallets and unique formulas for every needs. Most cosmetics factories have to fight to stay ahead in a highly competitive market where the customers are the decision makers.

Cosmetics sales are just recovering from the crisis. The second quarter of the year, products like hygiene , perfumes and makeup accesories have increased about an 11% in realtion to last year. The national and foreing factories associated with the chamber of the cosmetic industry have earnd $1800 milions on 2009.

The highest growth has been in places that cosmetic has become one of the most important thing like United States, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.

Sonia

To consume paper is one of the best ways of preserving our forests

The manager of the Cluster of the Paper of Basque Country, Iñaki Ugarte, search to separate the information from the myths that the paper is not a pollutant element. Although, it affirms that the industry needs wastebasket, not only forests remain, but it increases the number of plantations for industrial use. Ugarte defended his thesis this week in a chat - colloquium in the Aquarium de Donostia, in the frame of the eleventh edition of the contest 'Zipristin' to promote the respect to the environment.

The first thing that the industry wastebasket is not a causer of the deforestation. The paper does not take place from exotic, tropical or noble wood, but of species of rapid growth as the eucalyptus or the pine. is necessary the wood to obtain paper is obtained principally of forest plantations for industrial use.

Mary

London will dismiss about a half million public workers

The british goverment announced yesterday the largest program of austerity in decades, intended to tackle the biggest deficit in Europe, but at the cost of a half million public employees.

In a statement the british minister of economy, George Osborne, told that for 2015 he expects controlling the public debt and the publics finances.In his opinion the solution to the problem of the debts is to control the interes, and to do that 490000 employees should be dismissed on the next 4 years. he excused himself saying that ``is inevitable some layoffs when a country run out of money , but they will try helping them looking for a new job. Other soluciont consist on he will implement in a reduction of the 4 percent on the politic finance and also the retirement will be at 66 years old.

Taking to acoount the differents sectors he will implement differents solutions. In the case of Companies ministry the percentage will be 7.1 per year, in the culture 41 percent and the defense ministry will have a reduction of 8 percent the next for years. In the Enviroment, Food and Rural Affairs will reduce in 8 percent, while the Ministry of Foreing Affairs will take a reduction of 24 percent in for years and the Ministry of juistice a 6 percent.In the case of the Health system will get 2,280 million euros in 4 years.

He thinks that the people who has better resources the will face off with the costs of the university and they will not have such as helps that they have now.

Ion Ander

Which is the perfect house in Spain?

The best house for Spanish people nowadays is a house of 90 square meters with 3 rooms and a maximum price of 150.000€.

Catalonia, Basque Country and Madrid are the autonomous communities in which the propietor is ready to do a higher investment in the three cases paying more than 345.000 €.

The cheapest houses in Spain we can find in Andalusia, Cantabria, Galicia and the Canary Islands, where the prices are around 120.000 and 135.000 Euros, and in Murcia, where the demand is for houses with two floors between 105.000 and 120.000 Euros.

The houses most rented are rounding 400-500 € and the most rented houses have two rooms.


BORJA

BBVA expanding in the world

Spain's Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria is launching an aggressive bid to expand its investment bank in Latin America, Asia and the US, a move that seeks to take advantage of its existing footholds and the weaker position of some rivals.
BBVA is the second biggest bank institution of Spain and one of the foreigner investor of financial sector in Latin America.
Now they want to expand in US because it is a big market that is growing. Them in Asia and Latin America this one is more easy because they know the market.

By: Saioa and Mónica

A DAY IN THE CONSUMER CLASS

On Friday we went to a meeting to a consumer class. We have spoken before about this topic but we went there to learn a little bit more about it.
We started with an explanation of the consumers in organization charts and later we took a break of half and hour and before that we learned more doing games.
The main thing that we learned was that consumers and suppliers has to be clear on their conversations and they have to speak in a normal way not to have misunderstandings.
In general the morning was good and we learned something more about it.




Sonia and Borja

HOW TO LOOK FOR A JOB

When we finish studing or we want to start to work we have to know how to look for a job and what kind of steps we have to take.
We can find different opcions to find a job, this are some where you can look for:
1- Look in the paper
2- Go to the INEM (Instituto Nacional de Empleo)
3- Send your curriculum to the companys
4-You also have the chance to send you curriculum to the companys by internet, because many companys give you that posibility.

Also, depends on the job you are looking for you can put some cartels in the street and another way is the mouth to mouth resuscitation, which consist on tell to your family or friends that you are looking for a job and if they can help you to find one, although there is other possibility that you know one of the employer and he mades you the favour for putting you in the company.


Mary and Cynthia