The state of Florida asked a court on Wednesday to order Brown & Williamson to pay the state US$ 17 million, accusing the tobacco company of shortchanging...
Archive - May 2006
Moldova’s only cigarette making plant, Chisinau-based Tutun-CTC, can soon be granted an exclusive license for cigarette import, the Moldovan ministry of...
Austria-based packaging manufacturer Mayr-Melnhof Packgaging says that it has broadened its path of expansion by the region of North Africa and announces a 51...
Officers of the crime department of the Latvian customs agency intercepted a record shipment of 8.8 million smuggled cigarettes Superkings within the precincts...
Austrian Health Minister Maria Rauch-Kallat has announced that all packs of cigarettes will cost a minimum of 3.25 euros as of mid-May.
The Iranian parliament on 10 Mai 2006 approved a bill prohibiting smoking in public places, IRNA reported.
It will cost RJ Reynolds US$ 5 million to settle a California case where the company was accused of violating a state ban on distributing free cigarette...
BAT Russia is registering steady growth of sales in all price segments and has brought its market share to 21 per cent in Russia, the company posts in a news...
Philip Morris is showing steady growth in Russia where the company now accounts for 26.8 per cent of the market, largely due to its diverse brand portfolio...
Japan Tobacco International (JTI) acquired 98.45 percent of Serbia’s biggest raw tobacco manufacturer, Tobacco Industry Senta (Duvanska Industrija Senta)...
Philip Morris USA is entering the smokeless tobacco market with the launch of a pasteurised, smoke-free and spit-free tobacco pouch product called Taboka in...
Pennsylvania has become the 24th state to sue two major tobacco companies over money they withheld from payments that are required under the 1998 national...
Andhra Pradesh, the main tobacco-growing state in India, recorded its best ever auction-sales of flue-cured Virginia (FCV).
Altria Group reduced the size of its board to 11 members from 12 after Mexican billionaire investor Carlos Slim Helu declined re-election.
Under-18s are set to be banned from buying cigarettes in Scotland.
Cigarettes will become more expensive by at least 10,000 lei (28 euro cents) sometime this week, as producers need time to implement the law. The government...
British American Tobacco looks set to end cigarette production in the Netherlands as the tobacco group continues to rationalise its European operations, writes...