Growth in Imperial Tobacco’s key brands contrasted with lower overall shipping volume, sales and profit, the company said in its half-year statement.
Archive - April 2013
Swedish Match said low-priced products from competitors reduced its share of a growing domestic snus and snuff market during the first quarter.
Scotland’s display ban on tobacco products in large retail outlets came into effect today, supplying the missing link in a marketing prohibition that now...
The average price 44 days into the tobacco marketing season was USD 3.78 per kilogramme, or 6 cents more than at the same time in 2012, on volume that at 77.8...
Philip Morris USA’s best seller Marlboro boosted its share of a shrinking US cigarette market by 0.2 percentage points to 43.6 percent but shipments fell 5.5...
Japan Tobacco forecast both its domestic and international tobacco business will post higher sales and profit in the fiscal year ending March, 2014, helped by...
Cigarette volume at British American Tobacco (BAT) fell 3.7 per cent in the first quarter, a decline cushioned by the effect of higher prices, the company said.
Proposed revisions to the European Union’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) could cost 175,000 jobs, according to a study commissioned by Philip Morris...
Shipping volume of Lorillard Tobacco’s mainstay Newport brand fell 1.6 per cent in the first quarter although domestic market share for the menthol cigarette...
Philip Morris USA is suing 30 retailers for allegedly selling counterfeit Marlboro cigarettes in New York City, parent company Altria said.
Higher pricing and improved productivity boosted RJ Reynolds Tobacco profit in the first three months of 2013 but the company said slumping Doral value-brand...
V2 Cigs and National Tobacco Company announced a strategic partnership to develop a line of electronic cigarettes featuring a redesigned V2 disposable model.
The Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to provisions of the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act on warning labels, advertising and...
Philip Morris International (PMI) cigarette shipments fell 6.5 per cent in the first three months of the year as sales suffered from excise-tax hikes in the...
Illegal cigarette trade in the European Union rose to an estimated 65.5 billion sticks in 2012, about the size of the combined legal markets of France and...
Wilshire Marketing BV will become the exclusive distributor of Goodrich Tobacco Company’s ultra low nicotine Dutch Magic brand in the Benelux countries, said...
Philip Morris USA said it paid about USD 3.1 billion (EUR 2.4 billion) to states under terms of the Master Settlement Agreement, bringing total outlays to more...
Tobacco tax increases in President Barack Obama’s budget proposal include nearly doubling the federal levy on cigarettes, which could prompt 2.6 million...
The government of Montenegro reportedly is asking for offers to buy tobacco company Novi duvanski kombinat Podgorica (NDKP).
Philip Morris International (PMI) agreed to increase its annual purchase of domestic tobacco by 33 per cent this year and by about 5 per cent in each of the...