Sales volume at the end of the marketing season at 144 million kilogrammes reaped USD 525 million (EUR 418.3 million), a revenue increase of 46 per cent over...
Archive - August 2012
Exports of tobacco and tobacco products will rise 10 per cent in the current fiscal year, according to a Tobacco Board estimate published on the Business...
City officials in New Delhi are set to ban sales, production, distribution and storage of gutkha products beginning next week, the Times of India reported on...
Nearly two thirds of respondents said they favour banning cigarette sales to anyone born after 2000, according to a poll published on the Sydney Morning Herald...
A federal appeals court in Washington D.C. ruled the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cannot require graphic warnings on cigarette packages, a decision that...
Dutch ITM Group, a supplier of tobacco machinery, and CSi, a provider of fully integrated material handling systems, signed a cooperation agreement on 2 May...
Associate Health Minister Tariana Turia announced tobacco excise taxes would increase by 10 per cent a year in each of the next four years. The move would give...
The Illinois House Friday voted to raise the state’s cigarette tax by USD 1.00 (EUR 0.80) per pack and double taxes on other tobacco products to avoid even...
At the 65th World Health Assembly which concluded Saturday, the World Health Organization (WHO) set a target to reduce premature mortality from...
A district court on 4 June took up a lawsuit filed by Philip Morris International that challenges Norway’s display ban for cigarettes sold in retail outlets...
A circuit court jury in Fort Lauderdale awarded the family of a deceased smoker USD 75.35 million (EUR 60.41 million) in punitive and compensatory damages...
The European tobacco growers’ association UNITAB criticised World Health Organisation efforts to regulate tobacco, saying WHO has overstepped the boundaries...
The government of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda set the country’s first national target to reduce the smoking rate in a program that seeks to reduce the rate...
Quebec said it is launching a suit seeking CAD 60 billion (EUR 46.5 billion) in damges from 11 tobacco companies, making it the fifth Canadian province to seek...
Philip Morris International said it will spend USD 18 billion (EUR 14.4 billion) over the next three years to repurchase shares after the current USD 12...
Tomra Systems will acquire sorting-specialist Best Kwadraat of Belgium for EUR 138 million, the Norwegian based company announced.
Swedish cardboard manufacturer Iggesund on Tuesday started a new EUR-240-million recovery boiler at its mill.
Altria unit Philip Morris USA, RJ Reynolds, and Lorillard tobacco companies are raising prices on their cigarettes, Convenience Store News reported.
A KPMG study, commissioned by Philip Morris International (PMI), estimates that the annual consumption of illicit cigarettes in the European Union in 2011 was...
Backers of a state ballot measure calling for cigarette taxes in California to rise by USD 1 (EUR 0.80) per pack have conceded defeat, the San Francisco...