British American Tobacco on 29 July 2005 has raised the prospect of further job losses across its European operations in its quest for further savings.
Archive - July 2005
The European Union may publish the chemicals and additives used in cigarettes in a new push to curb smoking among its 450 million consumers.
A complaint was filed today by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer against US Smokeless Tobacco Company (USSTC), accusing the company of misconduct in...
Nine states and the District of Columbia accused cigarette maker RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company on 27 July 2005 of making misleading claims that its Eclipse brand...
An Armenian cigarette making facility is to be inaugurated in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on 5 August 2005, reports PanArmenian news network quoting Georgian...
Alcan plans to build a US$ 42.6 million packaging plant in North Carolina for tobacco industry customers, the company said on Thursday.
The joint venture would produce cigarette paper and porous plug wrap in partnership with the China National Tobacco Corporation (CNTC), which is the principal...
The government of the Republic of Belarus has banned import supplies of the international cigarette brands LM and West, reports Rustabak media group.
Formula One will have to tow the line as tobacco advertising legislation in Europe comes into effect on 31 July 2005.
US-based company Wellstone Filters announced that it has entered into an agreement with US Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers to manufacture Wellstone's product...
The US justice department on Monday asked the supreme court to reinstate a potential US$ 280 billion penalty in the government's racketeering case against...
Hans-Dieter Lampe, executive director of Germany-based company Gebrüder Kulenkampff and the associated companies of Universal Leaf Tobacco Company's Dark...
After a serious decline in raw tobacco manufacturing registered in the first four months of the year, tobacco production in Ukraine seems to be gaining pace...
A sensation was caused by the spokesman for Philip Morris Russia, Kuban Robert May, at the general meeting of the Russian tobacco trade association Tabakprom...
A federal jury in Nashville Wednesday 13 July 2005 found that Philip Morris USA acted lawfully when it discontinued a trade programme for vending machine...
Robert S. (Steve) Miller, chairman and chief executive officer of Delphi Corp, has resigned his membership on the board of directors and audit committee of...
British American Tobacco said it's planning to cut 530 jobs in Southampton, UK and 66 jobs in Dundalk, Co. Louth, Ireland, due to separate reviews into...
A federal appeals court has rejected an attempt to establish a nationwide class solely for the purpose of establishing an industry fund to pay punitive damages...
Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed the new federal law that cancels mandatory licensing of many kinds of business activity, manufacturing of tobacco...