The US Supreme Court said on Tuesday that it would hear Philip Morris USA's appeal of a ruling that upheld a US$ 79.5 million punitive damages award to an...
Archive - May 2006
The governor of Illinois has signed legislation that will require cigarettes sold there to be made with special paper designed to self-extinguish when they are...
A ban on smoking in Kenya's public places has come into force. From Monday, anyone smoking in offices, bus stations, airports and sports venue faces a...
ITC, which sells seven of every 10 cigarettes in India, had a 36 per cent gain in profit in the first quarter of 2006 before a one-time expense, as demand for...
According to a Sofia New Agency report, Bulgaria's tobacco monopoly Bulgartabac, which is planned to be privatised, has registered a 30 per cent loss over...
Imperial Tobacco Group today announces that, as part of the planned and orderly succession at senior board level, its non-executive chairman, Derek Bonham...
The Indian government has put a lid on the plans of Universal Leaf Tobacco to commence operations in India.
The High Court in Kenya has given the go ahead for a peasant farmer, Amos Weru Murigu, to sue British American Tobacco following the loss of his left leg to a...
A re-styled version of Philip Morris' flagship brand L&M has been introduced to the press last week and is to be launched on the Russian market in a...
Cigarette maker Reynolds American said on Tuesday it had received antitrust approval from US regulators for its US$ 3.5 billion purchase of Conwood, the number...
Cigarette manufacturers are up in arms against new restrictions on smoking announced by Kenya's health minister Charity Ngilu recently.
Rothmans has been increasing its share of a declining market but says high taxes and the growth of contraband cigarette sales present “an escalating...
A US$ 100 million investment project has been completed by Philip Morris Ukraine with the inauguration of a new tobacco plant near Kharkiv, report the...
Following the contract manufacturing of Alliance launched at the Belarusian cigarette maker Neman in Grodno last year, BAT has now placed there production of...
Customs officers have seized 7.2 million counterfeit cigarettes at Parcelforce's international hub in Coventry, UK.
A group of US investors led by Carl Icahn and Warren Lichtenstein said on Thursday it has again raised its stake in KT&G Corp, the latest move in its bid to...
According to the Sofia News Agency, on 12 May 2006 Consortium Subev & Co, teamed up with Euro-finance and Balkan Consultant Company, was picked to be...
An Oregon appeals court overturned US$ 150-million in punitive damages against Altria Group's Philip Morris USA and sent the case back to a lower court...
For the third time, Tobacco Journal International received the prestigious Golden Cylinder Award, which is awarded annually by the American Rotogravure...
Imperial Tobacco Canada, makers of du Maurier and Players cigarettes, are cutting out the middle man and will begin selling directly to retailers as of August.