Ukrainian tobacco companies made 120.39 billion cigarettes in 2006, compared to the previous year’s output of 120.26 billion sticks, reports the national...
Archive - January 2007
Cigarette manufacturer British American Tobacco (BAT) has sold 22.9 billion sticks of cigarettes in Germany in 2006 – thus stabilising sales at the previous...
A spokesman for Mr Kyprianou announced that he will on Tuesday offer for deliberation a contract which provides this prohibition. It is the start of a process...
An international tobacco-smuggling syndicate has been smashed with the seizure of more than 12 tonnes of tobacco and two million cigarettes in Sydney.
A court has rejected South Korea's first anti-tobacco lawsuits filed by cancer victims and relatives against tobacco firm Korea Tobacco and Ginseng Co...
Bulgartabac, the Bulgarian tobacco monopoly, has announced drastic cuts in the prices of 21 different cigarette brands as of 20 February 2007.
Japan Tobacco Inc. announced that Gallaher Group Plc., the UK cigarette producer, has posted the scheme document to its shareholders on 19 January, in...
Cigarette maker Philip Morris International announced that it will boost its 40 per cent stake in Pakistani cigarette maker Lakson Tobacco by 50.21 per cent...
Mayr-Melnhof packaging, Europe's biggest producer of folding cartons, will install a second rotogravure machine on its cigarette packaging site in...
The Vienna daily Die Presse has reported that turnover from vending machine sales of cigarettes in Austria had declined by 70 per cent since 1 January, when it...
The Vietnam Tobacco Corporation (Vinataba), a state owned corporation, will be the only enterprise with the right to import cigarettes and cigars for the next...
A Greek tobacco producer is the only participant in the auction for shares` package of Sandanski Ltd, one of Bulgartabac Holding's factories.
An estimated 5-7 million packs of cigarettes are being illegally imported to Vietnam across the border with Cambodia every month, according to a report the...
Indonesia’s Association of Cigarette Producers and the Industry Ministry have rejected a proposed plan by the Finance Ministry to raise the retail price of...
The Sunday Times reports that Gallaher faces fresh accusations of colluding with customs to mislead parliament about alleged complicity in tobacco smuggling...
Cigarette sales in Germany declined 2.5 per cent in 2006 to 93 billion sticks, but sales of cigars and cigarillos were up 37.7 per cent to to 5.6 million...
China's tobacco industry is likely to see cross-province reshuffles this year.
Zimbabwe is projected to produce about 70 million kilogrammes of tobacco during the 2006/07 season, up from the 55 million kg that were sold last season.
London-based Imperial Tobacco Group is considering a Euro 10 billion bid for its Franco-Spanish rival Altadis SA, reported The Business, a...
The Supreme Court agreed Friday last week to consider whether tobacco companies can be protected from state court judgments since cigarettes are regulated by...