Japan Tobacco Inc. will seek more takeovers in 2009 to build on the 7.5 billion pound (USD 15 billion) purchase of Gallaher Group Plc.
Archive - August 2007
Three tobacco companies are required to pay a total of USD 24 million to tobacco farmers in Pennsylvania and Maryland under a recent North Carolina court...
Graphic images of the health consequences from smoking are to be shown on cigarette packets by October 2008, the health secretary, Alan Johnson, said.
Altria’s board of directors announced the planned spin-off of Philip Morris International (PMI) on 29 August and plans to set the record and distribution...
The cabinet raised excise taxes on local and imported cigarettes by 2 to 3 baht (USD 0.06 - 0.09) per pack.
Xu Guihua, vice president of the China Tobacco Control Association, made the landmark announcement at a seminar in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province...
Cigarette manufacturers will have to sell ‘fire-safe’ cigarettes, i.e. cigarettes with lowered ignition propensity, in North Carolina under a bill signed...
Cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris has tied up with a Bangladeshi firm, Dhaka Tobacco Company, to sell Marlboro cigarettes in the local market, company...
Schweitzer-Mauduit International announced in July the formation of a joint venture with CNTC to establish a facility for tobacco-related papers in Guangdong...
The 4-2 ruling, posted on the court's Web site, stamps out efforts by plaintiffs to resurrect the failed case in which the plaintiffs sued Philip Morris...
The Canadian state Ottawa wants to ban cigarette companies from using the words ‘light’ and ‘mild’ on their products, health minister Tony Clement said...
Shareholders of Britain's Imperial Tobacco voted in favour of its € 16.2 billion-takeover of Franco-Spanish rival Altadis.
After much debate in Kenya’s parliament, the tobacco control bill, which provides for the control of the production and advertising of tobacco products, was...
In a move to curb illicit tobacco turnover, Ukraine is introducing a new, and improved fraud-proof tax banderoles as of 1 November 2007, reports the local web...
A unanimous California Supreme Court has ruled that federal law trumps state provisions when it comes to cigarette marketing allegedly targeting children.
A hearing before South Africa’s Competition Tribunal between BATSA and JTI has commenced after JTI accused BATSA of using its market leadership to its...
The Tobacco Board has fixed the 2007 crop size in Karnataka at 95 million kg, and for Andhra Pradesh, India's other tobacco-growing state, at 150 million...
The Belarusian government plans to draft a comprehensive anti-smoking programme, which is to be implemented in 2008-2010, reports the online edition of...
The tobacco plant Reemtsma-Kyiv has increased cigarette output by 7 per cent in the first seven months of 2007.
As of 20 August India has banned the manufacture and sale of gutkha containing tobacco mixed with beetle nut, according to a report by DNA India.