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Detroit Revival Vies With Industry’s Decline (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance) - Even as Detroit shows encouraging signs of life, the automobile industry, the city’s life force, faces further declines in the coming year.

Analysis: Militants threaten oil industry (UPI) - Nigeria's leading militant group has called for its allies to band together to cripple the country's oil industry through attacks on oil installations.

Major Changes for European Wine Industry (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - The European Union approved major changes to rules governing the wine industry Wednesday with hopes of countering withering competition from producers in places such as California, Australia and Chile.

Entertainment industry to get boost in upcoming Budget (Indian Express Finance via Yahoo! India News) - A complete overhaul of the tax structure for the entertainment industry would be brought about in Budget 2008-09 so that it experiences a real boom and becomes a global industry, information and broadcasting minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi announced here today. Speaking at Focus 2007 organised by Assocham, the minister announced he was negotiating with the finance minister for bringing about tax ...

Coir industry witnesses declining price, profits (Indian Express Finance via Yahoo! India News) - Despite increasing exports, coir industry in the state is witnessing declining price and profit margins. While the industry expects production to increase by 5% in the later of the FY, with exports and sales increasing by 10% each, all other parameters are expected to remain the same. Industry insiders also expect the inventory level, capacity utilisation and employment level also to remain same ...

Pittsburgh Still a Player in Steel Industry (NPR) - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is remembered as a big steel town. The steel mills that used to line the Alleghany and Monongahela Rivers are gone, as are their tall belching smokestacks. But the steel industry isn't exactly dead. Pittsburgh is home to 25 percent of America's steel mill suppliers.

Pittsburgh Still a Player in Steel Industry (NPR) - Pittsburgh is remembered as a big steel town. The steel mills that used to line the Alleghany and Monongahela Rivers are gone, as are their tall, belching smokestacks. But the steel industry isn't exactly dead. Pittsburgh is home to 25 percent of America's steel mill suppliers.

Matsushita, Hitachi deal could reshape flat panel industry (The New Zealand Herald) - TOKYO - Matsushita and Hitachi are discussing multi-billion dollar deals on flat panels that could reshape an industry hit by fierce competition, a source familiar with the matter said.

Planning Commission recommends adding wine industry rep to ag group (The San Luis Obispo Tribune) - The Planning Commission has recommended that a representative of the wine industry join a key agricultural group, and suggested that it open its doors to others as well. The commissioners’ recommendation will go to the Board of Supervisors, which will discuss it Feb. 26. If they adopt it, the wine industry could have a represent representative and an alternate on the agricultural preserve review ...

Media and entertainment industry growth to double soon: study (Indian Express Finance via Yahoo! India News) - The Indian media and entertainment industry will grow at twice the rate of the country s GDP in a few years, driven largely by the emergence of regional players, technology and digitisation, says a joint study by Ernst and Young and Assocham. The study also reveals that around 28% of the 100 million pay TV households would be going digital by 2010, as a result of this trend. The report further ...