Lawyers for smokers of light cigarettes have asked a federal judge on Tuesday to grant class-action status to a lawsuit against major tobacco companies...
Archive - September 2006
The European Commission is entitled to pursue legal action against companies in the United States, the EU's top court ruled in the latest twist in a long...
The American cigar company Ashton Distributors, an internationally recognised manufacturer and supplier of premium cigars, started sales on the Russian market...
Due to pressure from farmers and their associations, the Tobacco Board of India has revised the Andhra Pradesh production target.
British American Tobacco announced that it has moved production from two of its Canadian factories in Guelph and Aymler, both situated in Ontario.
Japan Tobacco Inc. announced today the launch of four new cigarette products of its D-spec category at the beginning of October 2006 due to increased...
Three weeks after the 34-day conflict between Israel and Hizbollah ended, farm land in the southern region of Lebanon remains littered with unexploded ordnance...
Gallaher, UK's second-largest tobacco company, said its profits rose 15 per cent in the first half of the year as it sold more cigarettes in central and...
A second reading of the revised law on advertising is on the agenda of the Belarusian parliament for the autumn session.
Klaipedos Kartonas, a Lithuanian manufacturer of paper and cardboard, has got a formal permission of the Ukrainian antitrust committee to acquire a 50 per...
Universal Corporation, one of the world's leading leaf tobacco merchants, announced on Friday that it had completed the sale of the non-tobacco businesses...
Altadis S.A., the maker of Gauloises cigarettes, reported a larger-than-estimated 36 per cent drop in second-quarter profit on Spanish cigarettes.