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.