The British government backed away from a total ban on smoking in public places last night after days of fierce wrangling between ministers ended in an uneasy...
Archive - October 2005
Universal Corporation announced today that it received notification from the European Commission Competition Directorate that the Commission has imposed fines...
Swedish Match announced the launch of a new premium snus, General Onyx, to be introduced in the Swedish market in November.
Belt Technologies, USA and its European subsidiary, Belt Technologies Europe, have announced the acquisition of Clark Manufacturing, Mississippi, USA.
Celanese Acetate today announced that it would increase the price of acetate tow in standard grades by 12 per cent per kilogram in all regions.
British American Tobacco said on Friday it had increased its holding in Denmark's Skandinavisk Tobakskompagni (STK) to 32.3 per cent from 26.6 per cent.
Philip Morris Izhora has won the case against the St Petersburg tax inspection in the region’s federal arbitrage, reports the Russian business newspaper...
The European Commission said on Thursday it had fined four Italian tobacco processors a total 56 million euros (US$ 67.1 million) for colluding for six years...
As announced on 19 October, Leningrad’s regional government has approved CRES-Neva’s US$ 35 million investment plan for expansion of production by building...
The Belarusian government issued a decree on the quotas for cigarette import for the year 2006. The volume of the cigarette import is once again reduced to 1.5...
According to the presidential PR service, president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has signed an ordinance amending the 2002 decree on state control of...
The US Supreme Court on Monday handed cigarette makers a victory, rejecting a justice department appeal aimed at allowing a potential US$ 280 billion penalty...
Altria Group cleared one legal hurdle to splitting its tobacco and food units on Monday when the US Supreme Court let stand a ruling severely limiting the...
US Smokeless Tobacco on Monday said it would raise wholesale prices on most of its brands, including Copenhagen and Skoal, by 10 cents a can, citing higher...
The deadline for countries to ratify the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control will expire on 8 November 2005.
22nd Century Limited, a plant biotechnology company, has announced that genetically-modified tobacco plants with enriched-nicotine content are being grown...
A contract for the local manufacturing of Winston is to be signed shortly by Japan Tobacco and Belarusian cigarette maker Tabak-Invest.
The lawsuit, filed in Quebec Superior Court on 30 September 2005, targets Imperial Tobacco Canada, Rothmans Benson and Hedges and JTI MacDonald. It follows...
British American Tobacco on 4 Oct 2005 confirmed that it had agreed the sale of its 55 per cent stake in BAR Honda to Honda Motor.