The Azerbaijani ministry of finance suggests raising excise tax rates for imported alcohol and tobacco products in 2007, reports the national news agency...
Archive - August 2006
As of today Chile joins the public smoking ban debate with strict measures regulating smoking and non-smoking areas in restaurants, pubs, shopping malls...
South Korean cigarette manufacturer KT&G, under pressure from activist shareholders like US billionaire Carl Icahn, unveiled an ambitious plan on 9 August 2006...
Altria Group’s Philip Morris USA and other major cigarette makers asked the Florida Supreme Court to reconsider and clarify parts of its decision last month...
Metropolitan Worldwide of Nashville, its subsidiary Bel Air International in Hallandale, Florida, and NicStic of Zurich, Switzerland have negotiated to cease...
Russian investment fund UFG Private Equity Fund is acquiring a 40 per sent stake in Nevo Tabak, a cigarette making plant located in St Petersburg and currently...
BAT is strengthening its position in the Russian market, as the company’s press release on the six months’ results shows.
The EU commission states that employers, who do not want to employ smokers, may openly say so when advertising a vacancy.
The Moroccan state has approved a decree law published on 31 July that extends the monopoly on the import and wholesale of tobacco products until 31 December...
Pierre-Ándré Térisse has been appointed chief financial officer of the Altadis Group, replacing Michel Favre who will be leaving the company mid September...
Indonesia's second-largest tobacco company, PT Handaya Mandala Sampoerna, reported on Tuesday a 21 per cent rise in net profit for the first half of this...
Lorillard Tobacco Co said Tuesday it is considering whether to petition the Florida Supreme Court for a rehearing of the Engle class-action case.
UST, the largest maker of smokeless tobacco products, hopes this pitch will win over smokers who are looking for ways to get their nicotine fix in bars...
Imperial Tobacco Group , the maker of West and Davidoff cigarettes, may sell tobacco products in the US for the first time as legal risks there decline and UK...