Imperial Tobacco Group today announced the acquisition of Gunnar Stenberg, the Norwegian distributor of tobacco products and accessories.
Archive - February 2006
Franco-Spanish tobacco company Altadis will raise tobacco prices in Spain from Thursday, a sector source said on Wednesday.
New Zealand's smokers will have to suck in a NZ$ 1.50 price rise after the next budget if anti-tobacco campaigners get their way.
South Africa has announced a further tax hike for tobacco products. The increases announced today are: Cigarettes 51 cent (10.1 per cent), pipe tobacco 15.9...
South Korea`s top tobacco maker, KT&G, is bracing for a voting showdown over managerial rights with billionaire US investor Carl Icahn and his allies amid...
The Ukrainian tobacco industry has posted a 10.6 per cent yearly increase in cigarette output in 2005, reports Tobacco Review trade periodical.
An amended law on advertising signed by Kyrgyz president earlier this month bans all tobacco and alcohol ads from radio and TV shows in the daytime.
Members of the British parliament have voted by a huge margin to ban smoking from all pubs and private members' clubs in England.
Philip Morris has raised the price of Marlboro, the top selling cigarette in Spain, it was announced on Wednesday, taking the price back to where it was before...
The ban on smoking in public places and work places has caused, in 2005, a fall in cigarette sales of around 3.5 million kilogrammes, which has deprived the...
A new regulation on air pollution control has been implemented in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, since 4 February 2006.
Following last year’s law on curbing tobacco smoking in public places, Ukrainian parliament adopted a revised law on state control of tobacco turnover.
Russian cigarette makers have posted a record yearly output amounting to 405 billion sticks in 2005, 6.4 per cent more from a year before, reports the trade...
The new edition of the law on advertising has been given its second, most important, reading and got approval in the Russian duma.
FedEx Corp. said on 8 February 2006 it has reached an agreement with attorneys general in several states to further curb interstate shipments of cigarettes and...
According to the ministry of agriculture of Moldova, tobacco exports to Russia have shrunk considerably over the past year, reports Ros Business Consulting...
BAT Uzbekistan registered a 18 per cent production drop in 2005, the National Statistics Committee reports.
The filterless segment of the Russian cigarette market has been seeing an annual 20 per cent shrinkage over the past couple of years, experts for the industry...
European Tobacco Baku, the largest tobacco manufacturer in the Caucasus region employing nearly one thousand workers, has invested US$ 60 million in Azerbaijan...
Today is the opening of the global tobacco treaty's first Conference of the Parties (COP), a two-week meeting where governments will decide on critical...