The competitiveness of the Brazilian tobacco sector will be compromised with the rise of more than 30 per cent in the Tax on Industrialized Products (IPI)...
Archive - May 2007
Under a new federal anti-cancer plan, internet tobacco advertising will be curbed and anyone ordering cigarettes online will have to prove their age.
Major Russian cigarette manufacturers have released statistics of the first quarter of 2007, posting a notable decrease in cigarette imports on the domestic...
Tobacco companies have withheld at least US$ 7.5 million in payments to South Dakota over the past three years because of a dispute on whether states are...
Faculty leaders at the University of California (UC) overwhelmingly decided Wednesday to continue to allow funding from tobacco companies for research purposes.
Altadis is going to open its books to a private equity consortium which offered a takeover bid for Altadis at € 50 per share last week. Imperial Tobacco has...
Portugal's parliament approved a law on Friday banning smoking in almost all indoor public places and will carry hefty fines for individuals who flout the...
A smoking ban goes into effect in public departments in Dubai as of 31 May, Gulf News reported.
Philip Morris International plans to close a tobacco processing plant in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, by the end of 2007.
Two private equity firms, CVC Capital Partners Ltd and PAI Partners, offered € 12.8 billion (US$ 17.4 billion) for Altadis SA, the Spanish maker of Gauloises...
Adris group, the owner of the Croatian tobacco factory Rovinj, currently owns 35,402 regular and 7,000 preferential shares of Duhan Rijeka. The overall...
Imperial Tobacco said Tuesday it met Altadis last week and is still hopeful for a friendly deal according to reports by the Financial Times.
The new Tobacco Act, which was passed by the Estonian parliament two years ago, will take effect in June after a delay that was meant to allow companies to...
Bulgartabac’s CEO Hristo Lalchev yesterday accused the head of Bulgaria's investigations service, Angel Alexandrov, of corruption.
The Lviv cigarette plant (West Ukraine) has resumed production after standing idle for a year.
A law on advertising which specifically introduces a total ban of tobacco ads as of 1 January 2008 has been adopted by the Belarussian parliament, Rustabak...
The Association of the Hungarian Tobacco Industry expects a 7-per-cent excise tax increase for 2008, as Hungary must comply with European Union regulations...
The document specifies index rates for excise taxes imposed on all tobacco products for the period 2008 to 2010. The rates are to be kept intact for RYO and...