On Wednesday the Bulgarian parliament voted against plans for a complete ban on smoking in cafes, bars and restaurants, arguing that it would endanger the...
Archive - April 2010
Imperial Tobacco, Japan Tobacco International (JTI) and British American Tobacco (BAT) said on Monday that they are to challenge through the courts an...
Following an announcement in January, Swedish Match and Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) on Monday signed the transaction agreement to form a new company with...
Australia's government announced Thursday a 25-per-cent exicse tax increase on tobacco products and said it plans to introduce a law on plain...
Filtrona’s coated and security products’ division has underlined its commitment to its Payne and Payne Security businesses with an extensive expansion and...
Iggesund Paperboard announced a price increase for both its solid bleached board range, Invercote, and its folding box board, Incada, throughout Europe.
Parkside Flexibles of Wakefield, UK, has opened its first overseas production facility in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
With the opening of a plant for liquid flavours in Singapore in January 2010, German flavour and fragrance manufacturer Symrise continues to expand its...
On 2 November 2009, Swedish company Eson Pac took over SCA Packaging’s carton-making operations in Skovlunde, outside Copenhagen.
About 180 pending prosecutions will go ahead after the Court of Final Appeal yesterday ruled that smoking inside a restaurant which is enclosed on three...
An analysis article in the CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) concludes there is no evidence to support the fact that smoking in cars is 23 times more...
After having been fined GBP 112.3 million by the UK consumer affairs watchdog, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), for allegedly colluding with retailers to...
A smoking ban covering most public places, including restaurants, cafes, schools and hospitals has gone into effect today in Syria.
Tobacco manufacturers JTI-Macdonald and RJ Reynolds agreed on Tuesday to pay Canada's federal and provincial governments CAD 550 million (EUR 404 million)...
Protesting tobacco growers clashed with police yesterday, according to the Bulgarian daily newspaper Sofia Morning News.
Smoking is to be banned inside pavilions, but there will be designated outdoor smoking areas.
The government is expecting a slower annual growth in exports of tobacco and its products from average 18 per cent in the past three years to an average of 15...
Educational centres, banks, religious places, sports complexes and hospitals will be turned into no-smoking zones in the next four months, Public Health...
A new strategy to penalise retailers who sell contraband cigarettes has been employed to curb a growing problem in Malaysia.
British American Tobacco (BAT) has agreed to sell its Belgian cigarette distribution business, Lyfra, to Landewyck Group, a privately held tobacco company...