Marlboro shipping volume dropped 10 per cent in the third quarter as US wholesalers reduced inventory stockpiled earlier in the year, according to Altria Group.
Archive - October 2011
SWM and Delfortgroup have signed a world-wide license agreement that ends their intellectual property dispute over lower ignition propensity (LIP) cigarette...
Altria Group avoided a potentially costly verdict after a Missouri judge declared a mistrial in the first "Lights'' cigarette class action to...
Nine-month group volume at British American Tobacco declined 0.6 per cent to 523 billion sticks as part of what BAT termed an industry trend that may be...
Moist-snuff shipping volume at American Snuff, the second largest manufacturer of smokeless tobacco products in the US, rose 7 per cent in the third quarter...
Specialty packaging-film producer Treofan Group signed a marketing and technology partnership with Shiner International and Alliance Packaging Group of China
Lorillard's cigarette shipments to domestic wholesalers rose 2.8 per cent to 10.1 million sticks in the three-month period ended 30 September.
Production and maintenance employees at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. have rejected union representation, said the company based in Winston-Salem, N.C.
A ban on the sale of cigarettes from vending machines has been given a final approval by the Welsh government.
Correcting previous version to show age-group percentages in third paragraph represent survey respondents: Fewer Japanese are smoking and the rate of decline...
Four US senators and health officials in the two cities whose baseball teams will face off today in the World Series are urging players to refrain from chewing...
Bulgaria's Privatization Agency has formally transferred 79.83 per cent of cigarette maker Bulgartabac to Russian state-owned bank VTB for the price of...
The Turkish government last Thursday raised the private consumption tax (ÖTV) on tobacco products, reports Today's Zaman.
Filthai, a subsidiary of Filtrona Filter Products, has moved to a new 7,000-square-metre facility in Bangkok.
EU Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolos on Wednesday published his proposals to reform the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) from January 2014.
Ruling Democrats may shelve plans for another hike in tobacco levies, this time to pay for earthquake reconstruction, due to parliamentary opposition, Reuters...
Norway’s left-center proposed a string of measures, including an outdoor smoking ban, to tighten existing laws, reports Dagsavisen.
Opposition lawmakers in the upper house again postponed a Senate vote on plain packaging for cigarettes, which the Health Ministry said may force the...
World Health Organisation Director-General Margaret Chan struck out at tobacco companies in a speech Monday, accusing them of using “dirty tricks and...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Thursday announced a national study to find out the effects of...