Cigarette sales in Scotland have risen five per cent - despite the smoking ban. Latest figures show Scots are buying 61,000 more packets of cigarettes each...
Archive - October 2006
Mundet, a Richmond, VA-headquartered rotogravure printer of cigarette tipping papers, announced today the purchase of assets of International Playing...
British American Tobacco Ukraine has announced the modernisation of its Priluki plant completed.
A bill on a 30 per cent rise of excise tax rates for tobacco products has been approved by the Lithuanian government, Belta news agency informs.
A landmark agreement has been made between RJ Reynolds and 39 states, including California, for the tobacco company to stop selling flavoured cigarettes...
Following the pattern of the previous couple of years, the Belarusian government has set quotas for cigarette import and manufacturing for the year 2006.
Key Technology announces the appointment of Dr David M. Camp as president and chief executive officer.
Bulgaria's tobacco monopoly Bulgartabac is testing ground in Italy and Austria.
The US Supreme Court on 10 October 2006 refused to hear an appeal by 30 state governments in a battle over payments by three small tobacco companies into...
The days of cigarette-friendly France are about to go up in smoke.
European Union countries on Thursday ended two years of haggling over how to share more than US$ 1 billion in damages paid by Philip Morris under a deal made...
Altadis' tobacco factory in Alicante is now to be the only one of its kind manufacturing dark tobacco cigarettes for Europe.
Philip Morris International (PMI) announced today that it has, through one of its affiliates, acquired Rocker Production, a privately owned manufacturer of the...
Around 200 workers of the Yaroslavl-based Balkan Star tobacco plant belonging to the Franco-Spanish tobacco group Altadis are reported to be facing redundancy...
The Crimean economic court has initiated liquidation procedures of the tobacco plant of Feodossia that was earlier announced bankrupt.
According to an official statistical report, the Armenian tobacco industry has registered a 5.6 per cent year-on-year decline in cigarette output over the...
According to a report by Sofia News Agency, Bulgaria has sold 80.57 per cent of Yuri Gagarin BT facility (Plovdiv) for cigarette packaging, filters and other...
British American Tobacco and Philip Morris International signed a trademark transfer agreement which will allow the companies to consolidate their ownership of...