Imperial Tobacco Group is to restructure its manufacturing operations in Lahr, Germany, as a result of the European Court of Justice ruling on the taxation of...
Archive - March 2006
Swedish announced that it would launch a gum-based chewing tobacco in Sweden that the company now only sells in Japan.
Alliance One has announced that it will close its three facilities in Mozambique after procuring its 2006 crop.
On 20 March, the US Supreme Court rejected Philip Morris' appeal of Boeken without comment.
Two years after its introduction, the Irish Office of Tobacco Control (OTC) says it found that 95 per cent of the 35,043 premises it inspected in 2005 were in...
Computer memory chips replaced cigarettes as the state of Virgina’s leading manufactured export in 2005.
The number of men who smoke in what remains a comparative bastion of unfettered tobacco consumption has dwindled below 50 per cent for the first time, a South...
Philip Morris International, which owns two plants in Russia, sold distributors in Russia 84 billion cigarettes in 2005, up 2.7 per cent from 2004.
The parliament of Georgia is to discuss the bill of amendments providing for reduction of the GEL 0.9-0.7 excise duty for tobacco to GEL 0.5 the next week.
Following extradition from Greece, 55 year old William Bullock McPhee was jailed for five years at Ipswich Crown Court on 21 March 2006.
BAT Russia has announced a US$ 47 million investment plan for the Saratov-based cigarette making plant BAT-STF, reports the trade periodical Tobacco Review.
In a cigarette case that will be closely watched for a hint of a bigger tobacco ruling to come, Minnesota's highest court on 16 March 2006 upheld a...
Imperial Tobacco Group has hired BNP Paribas and Citigroup to study a hostile bid for Altadis, with the aim of launching a takeover offer of about 44 euros per...
Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed the new edition of the Law on Advertising approved in parliament earlier this year.
The British tobacco company Gallaher Group has entered the Russian cigarillos market by launching sales of filterless flavoured miniature cigars Hamlet...
Chilean legislators approved a new anti-smoking law on 14 March 2006 in a major step toward cutting the habit in a country where more than 40 per cent of the...
Chilean legislators approved a new anti-smoking law on 14 March 2006 in a major step toward cutting the habit in a country where more than 40 per cent of the...
The ministry is set to raise current duties by 30 per cent in 2007 and increase them by 20 per cent more in the ensuing two years. It is of note that the dues...
The Moscow-based cigarette maker Liggett-Ducat (Gallaher Group) registered a 7 per cent yearly increase in sales and 13.1 per cent in output, the company’s...
US cigarette sales fell to a 55-year low in 2005 after tobacco companies agreed to restrict advertising in a 1998 health-care settlement, a group of US...