New Century Tobacco Group today announced the introduction of Fact brand cigarettes to the US market.
Archive - April 2006
Altria Group will stick to its own schedule for breaking the Kraft Foods business off from its Philip Morris tobacco businesses and will not act prematurely...
Cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc on Tuesday said it would acquire Conwood Co for US$ 3.5 billion, making a long-anticipated move into the faster-growing...
RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company today filed suit in US District Court for the Western District of Washington (Tacoma Division) to overturn a recently enacted state...
Bulgarian company Silverleaf Trading Limited and Turkish leaf processor Sunel Tobacco Company have announced that they have reached an agreement in principle...
Zimbabwe is prepared to provide land to white farmers who had their property seized under President Robert Mugabe's land reform programme, reports the BBC.
Japan Tobacco International Russia, the country’s third largest cigarette maker, has won two victories in court over the federal taxation service that has...
An investment fund led by billionaire US investor Carl Icahn said on Wednesday that it has raised its stake in South Korea's top cigarette maker, KT&G...
California on 18 April 2006 became one of the first states to sue cigarette-makers to force them to pay their share of the total of US$ 1.2 billion the...
Malaysia is plannning to introduce pictorial health warnings on cigarette packs. Packets may look like miniature Tak Nak ("Say no") posters once the...
The law regarding the financing of some health expenditures, called the vice tax, will enter into force in a maximum of a month and in the meantime the norms...
The tobacco industry on 12 April 2006 attacked a landmark jury verdict ordering cigarette makers to cough up US$ 590.9 million for nicotine patches, telephone...
Tobacco vendors in Ontario are facing many new government restrictions that regulate the selling of cigarettes.
The European Commission on 4 April 2006 warned four countries for failing to implement a 2003 European Union-wide ban on most forms of tobacco advertising.
British American Tobacco Rwanda, previously known as Tabarwanda, announced an operational restructuring last week, in which the company has become a centre of...
The European Commission is taking action against member states that impose minimum retail selling prices on cigarettes.
Philip Morris Ukraine, one of the largest producers of cigarettes in Ukraine, reduced cigarette output 4.6 per cent year-on-year to 8.271 billion cigarettes in...
JTI Ukraine, owner of the Kremenchug-based cigarette plant in Poltava region, made 3.5 billion cigarettes over January to March 2006, 26.6 per cent up from a...
to export cigarettes for the first time, the industry ministry said on 5 April 2006.
Schweitzer-Mauduit International, which makes cigarette papers, said on Tuesday that it is evaluating how to operate facilities in France more effectively and...