Vasiliy Terevtsov, director of the Russian association of tobacco manufacturers, Tabakprom, has announced his resignation.
Archive - February 2007
Brazilian tobacco company Souza Cruz, a subsidiary of British American Tobacco, posted a net profit of R$ 824 million in 2006, 19 per cent more than the R$ 692...
Bulgartabac, the Bulgarian tobacco monopoly, will sell four of its biggest tobacco factories on the local stock market after proving unable to privatize them...
The largest of the local manufacturers, Donskoy Tabak, which moved production to a new site in a Rostov-on-Don industrial estate last year, made 17.1 billion...
The directors of Ace Interactive, a UK-based supplier of spare parts, yesterday announced the merger and investment in Premcourt Services, a manufacturer of...
Altria Group, the parent company of cigarette maker Philip Morris, authorised the spin-off of all shares of Kraft Foods owned by Altria to Altria's...
More than 92 million smuggled cigarettes were seized in Austria in 2006 - an increase of 5.6 million sticks or roughly 6 per cent since 2005.
The first phase of a comprehensive smoking ban in public places goes into effect. As of 1 February 2007 it will no longer be possible to smoke in...
Carolina Tobacco has been ordered to pay US$ 31 million dollars to 46 states as part of a settlement.
Tobacco companies have abandoned their legal action challenging new laws to restrict the advertisement and promotion of cigarettes and other tobacco products.
Njette AB, a Swedish company, has been granted patent protection for tobacco and nicotine products with the lowest possible level of tobacco-specific...