The offer values the existing ordinary issued share capital of Gallaher at US$ 14.7 billion. This represents a 27 per cent premium over the average Gallaher...
Archive - December 2006
Universal Corporation announced today that as part of its strategy for enhancing shareholder value, it has adopted a plan to sell its remaining non-tobacco...
Delen, 41, a native of the Netherlands, joined London-based British American Tobacco in 1989 as a brand manager in Guatemala. He later held marketing and sales...
Allen B. King announced that the board of directors of US leaf trading company Universal Corporation has elected George C. Freeman III to succeed King as...
Philip Morris USA said on Wednesday it was raising prices on all its cigarette brands by 10 cents per pack as of 18 December, a move that had been expected by...
What was previously the T1 Paper Group, the paper division of Trierenberg Holdings, will, together with its subsidiaries, now become the Delfort Group, a...
Bulgarian agriculture minister Nihat Kabil announced state support to tobacco manufacturers to be extended for three more years, reports Darik news.
The Ukrainian economy minister is putting into effect tougher smoking control measures as of 1 January 2007, reports Rustabak trade news agency with reference...
Shares in British tobacco company Gallaher Group rose strongly on Thursday after the group received a bid approach late Wednesday which sources close to the...
After months of debating, Germany's coalition of conservatives and Social Democrats announced it saw legal problems with a nationwide smoking ban and...
As became known on 5 December, US billionaire Carl Icahn cashed in most of his investment in South Korea's KT&G with an estimated US$ 120 million in...
This can only happen if the subsidised product does not have any detrimental effect on the EU's shared market, according to local media. One of EU's...
Poland's ministry of finance plans to raise the excise duty for tobacco products in January by an average of 13 per cent.