According to a report by the Georgian news agency Sarke, the tobacco plant of Batumi, Autonomous Republic of Ajara, currently owned by the Georgian government...
Archive - September 2006
The stockholders’ meeting of British American Tobacco Ukraine appointed Dean Gilfilan the company’s new CEO. Gilfilan has been with BAT since 1999 and...
According to a report by the state customs committee of Uzbekistan, 220 illegal shipments of tobacco products have been intercepted in the country by customs...
British American Tobacco (BAT) has stopped production of cigarettes in Ghana as the country’s parliament looks set to ban smoking in public spaces.
According to the Ural regional media, due to high excise tax rates and ever toughening competition on the market, tobacco plant Alvis based in Yekaterinburg...
Quimperlé, France-based manufacturer of tobacco-related papers Papeteries de Mauduit (PDM), a subsidiary of Schweitzer-Mauduit International, announced today...
Jacek Olczak, 41, has been appointed new chief executive officer of Philip Morris Germany, probably from November.
The Kazakh parliament, Majilis, approved a bill on ratifying WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, reports the national news agency Kazinform.
Greek police found nearly 1.5 million packets of contraband cigarettes on a North Korean-registered ship off southern Greece and arrested seven members of its...
The decision by a federal judge to give class-action status to a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against cigarette makers will delay Altria Group's plan to...
670,000 contraband cigarettes of the Saint George brand labeled with Russian excise banderoles were arrested by Estonian tax and custom service officers...
According to a Rustabak.ru report, a new cigarette making facility is to be put into operation in the city of Kursk in central Russia within the nearest months.
As of 20 September 2006, Imperial Tobacco Group launched manufacturing of its international brand West in Minsk, at the facilities of Belarusia's second...
A federal judge ruled Monday that a jury should decide whether tobacco companies must pay tens of millions of smokers up to US$ 200 billion for allegedly...
The tobacco control bill tabled in the South African parliament last week is only the first of two pieces of anti-smoking legislation, the department of health...
Anti-smoking activists are accusing publicly traded tobacco companies of defrauding investors by not coming clean about manipulating nicotine levels in...
Wales’ National Assembly is planning to ban smoking in public spaces and workplaces from April 2007.
South African National Intelligence Agency operatives have infiltrated a local multi-billion-rand crime syndicate smuggling counterfeit cigarettes from...
Southwest China's Sichuan Province is planning to build a modern cigarette supply and distribution center in the provincial capital city of Chengdu.
A new bill, drafted by the ministry of health, is to impose further restrictions on smokers.