The California supreme court on Thursday found that RJ Reynolds Tobacco broke state law by giving out cigarettes for free at a street fair and other events...
Archive - December 2005
The Azerbaijani government is changing the excise regime for tobacco products as of 1 January 2006, reports Interfax news agency.
Bulgaria's economy and energy ministry has presented three options for the privatisation of Bulgaria's tobacco monopoly Bulgartabac that is to be...
The leaf fermentation plant located in the Abkhazian city of Gudauty, Georgia, has begun production of Ritsa cigarettes.
As was expected, Georgia ratified the World Health Organisation's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FСTС) by parliamentary decision on...
Schweitzer-Mauduit International today announced that it has reached agreement with Philip Morris USA to continue their strategic supply agreement for fine...
Marlboro cigarettes will be produced legally for the first time in China, the world's largest cigarette market, under an agreement announced on Wednesday...
On 19 December 2005 Austria-based packaging supplier Mayr-Melnhof MM Packaging acquired 50 per cent plus one share in the offset segment of Polygrafoformlenie...
Following Philip Morris' reduction on its off-invoice discount by US$ 0.05 per pack on its four core brands, Reynolds American (RAI) took a list price...
Bermuda will introduce an island-wide smokefree workplace law in 2006 if it is approved by the Senate, following its acceptance in the House of Assembly...
RJ Reynolds Global Products on Monday said it had reached an agreement with Japan Tobacco for Reynolds to sell its Camel, Salem and other cigarettes at US...
A UK judge has cut compensation to the widow of a smoker who died of asbestosis, saying that tobacco smokers must take responsibility for their own health, and...
In a note to US retailers, PM USA just announced that it is reducing its off-invoice discount to US$ 5.00 from US$ 5.50 per carton on its four core brands...
The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a US$ 10.1 billion verdict against Philip Morris USA, ordering a lower court to dismiss the case in which the...
Mayor Zenkichi Kojima of Shizuoka City, located in the middle of Japan's main island Honshu, said Tuesday the municipal government will institute a...
Beijing Cigarette Factory, a key tobacco manufacturer in north China, registered growth in exports of its decades-old famous cigarette brand of Zhongnanhai in...
The brick laying ceremony for the construction of an Alcan Packaging (Canada) carton plant took place on 14 December 2005 near St Petersburg, the Russian press...
Manufacturer of smokeless tobacco UST on Wednesday said it would spend US$ 80 million in 2006 to promote its premium smokeless tobacco brands as it tries to...