International food price com- parison has been a much-de- bated topic among Finns this last year. Finng living overseas have got the debate going after drawing up well-considered shopping lists ‘and noting what they pay in their countries of residence. When we go through a corresponding shopping list for Finland, we can compare the cost of feeding the family in various countries.

The rather stark, unambi- guous results indicate the harsh fact that in terms of food costs Finland is an expensive coun- try. The food producers in par- ticular have tried to refute this claim.

Now the Swedish magazine, Land, has carried out a com- parison with eight western Eu- ropean countries. The food was bought during the first eight days of October in each of the countries from middle- priced shops, in each case 15 basic foodstuffs being in- cluded: dairy produce, three types of meat, fish, bread, flour ete.

Finland turned out to be the most expensive in both abso- lute terms and in terms of work-time required to earn the food. The industrial worker of Finland needed the most gross hourly earnings to buy the bag of groceries. While the Finnish worker had to put in 7 hours 12 minutes, the Dutch counter- part needed to work only 3 hours 47 minutes.

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Finland is becoming a bridge- head for printing machinery from the Peoples’ Republic of China to enter the European market. The aim is to set up China’s own export point in Finland which would serve as a test area.

Offset printing machinery has been produced for Finland in accordance with Finnish standards and safety regula- tions. Finland is regarded as the most suitable test market area in Europe because Fin- land invests considerably in the equipment needed by the graphics industry.

Wang Zhi Yong, export di- rector of the industrial machinery and equipment group from China _ visiting Finnish printing houses at the beginning of the autumn, ex- plained that exports to date have concentrated on the Far East and certain countries in South America and Africa. After Finland, marketing ef- forts will be directed chiefly at Britain.

Nokia Corporation has _ be- come the first Finnish firm to open a representative office in the People’s Republic of Chi- na. It is in Beijing. Other Finn- ish firms seek to manage their Chinese affairs from elsewhere in Asia, mainly Hong Kong or Singapore.

Finnish interest in China took a leap forward this spring with the formation in this country of the Finnish-Chinese trade association. Seventy firms have so far joined the organisation which has Pertti Voutilainen, managing direc- tor of Outokumpu as its chair- man.

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Valio of Finland and Snow Brand Milk Products-of Japan had one thing in common to start with, because each 1s the largest milk processor in its re- spective country. Now they have another bond between them, an agreement providing for cooperation in R&D and marketing know-how.

The agreement covers nearly all of the two companies for- mulas, i.e. production know- how. If, however, an unusually large amount of work has gone into developing a particular product, the other company will not get the related know- how for nothing. One such product is Valio’s emmental cheese.

Akira “Moriyama of 5 :0w Brands believes that co-opera- tion between his company and Valio will lead to new solutions to technical and marketing problems.

The power company Imatran Voima (I VO) is to instal a coal- fired district-heating network to serve a city of 700,000 in China. 3

The Chinese hope that the deal will bring them the benefit of technology transfers in the form of equipment for the gen- erating plants together with manufacturing licences. They have big plans to build district- heating systems in medium- sized cities.

The Finnish firm of consult- ing engineers Ekono is also in- volved in the project.

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