The Altria Group, the cigarette and food producer, raised its quarterly dividend by 6 cents (7.5 percent) to 86 cents a share, at a board meeting yesterday.
Archive - August 2006
The Czech government has approved a proposal to raise excise duty on tobacco products. According to local media, the price of a pack of cigarettes will rise by...
Carl Icahn and Warren Lichtenstein have ended their alliance under which they had offered together to buy KT&G Corp, South Korea's top tobacco company...
Cigarette prices are going up in Germany sooner than expected — Philip Morris is leading a 20 cent/pack rise in cigarette prices, moving Marlboro to € 4.00...
RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company said on Thursday that the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld two jury verdicts in trademark infringement and antitrust cases in...
The government has lifted the strict restrictions on surrogate advertisements, which did not allow tobacco and alcohol companies to advertise their brands on...
More than £ 800,000 worth of tobacco has been discovered during a raid on an illegal cigarette factory.
Reynolds American today announced that E. Julia 'Judy' Lambeth will join the company as executive vice president and general counsel effective 18...
France is preparing to clear the air in smoky restaurants and other public areas starting next year, the newspaper Le Figaro has reported.
The federal government should force tobacco manufacturers to produce low fire risk cigarettes, Australia's Labour Party said yesterday.
The majority of people in the EU support a ban on smoking in offices, shops and some other public places, but remain divided as to whether it should be...
China's legislature is considering its first ever law to ban the sale of cigarettes and alcohol to 300 million young people below the age of 18, reports...
Imperial Tobacco Group today announced that, subject to clearance from the German Federal Cartel Office, it has acquired the worldwide Davidoff cigarette...
Already on 31 July the board of UK-based tobacco machinery manufacturer Molins said it had sold its Italian subsidiary Sasib, which it had acquired in August...
Contraband cigarettes accounted for 13 per cent of total trade in July compared to 22 per cent in September 2005, the Hungarian customs and excise office...
According to a Rustabak.ru report, the Belarusian ministry of commerce has raised BAT’s and PM’s quotas for cigarette import by 138 million pieces.
Spanish cigarette sales fell 3.4 per cent year on year in July the economy ministry said on Thursday, continuing the downward trend seen every month this year...
Cigarette makers escaped major financial penalties on Thursday, even though a federal judge found them liable for violating racketeering laws in a decades-long...
British American Trading Company, BAT’s representative branch in Belarus, has inaugurated Tobacco House Dunhill in the country’s capital, the company’s...
Kazakhstan’s custom officers have seized two million faked excise banderoles for tobacco products, reports Rustabak.ru.