An estimated 50 contraband tobacco manufacturers are operating on First Nations land in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, according to an internal law...
Archive - August 2013
The government plans to appeal a court injunction stopping implementation of 85 per cent cigarette-pack warning labels until industry objections are heard...
Malaysia stepped into the breach left by the United States by submitting a plan to prevent tobacco companies from using an international trade agreement to...
Bangkok Central Administrative Court blocked introduction of what would be the world’s largest graphic cigarette pack warnings, granting a Philip Morris...
GTS/SCM, a unit of ITM Group serving the cigar industry, opened a service centre with parts and machinery in the Dominican Republic to service the Caribbean...
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials may propose banning online sales of e-cigarettes to keep them away from minors, the Wall Street Journal said in a...
Growers will be given two years and manufacturers a decade to stop production before both are banned under new anti-tobacco regulations, said the office of...
Roland Imperial Tobacco Company (RITC) will build a tobacco processing plant in the Lusaka South Multi-Facility Economic Zone to supply a cigarette factory on...
Innovia Films, a leading supplier of packaging films to the tobacco industry, will raise its Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene (BOPP) film capacity 10 per cent...
Imperial Tobacco Canada will spotlight the federal government’s role in developments that led to the CAD 27 billion (EUR 19.5 billion) class-action suit...
Tobacco exports may rise to more than USD 1 billion (EUR 747 million) this year from USD 845 million in 2012, Anadolu news agency said in a report citing data...
Convenience store clerks looking for plain-pack cigarettes in display cases where all brands look alike need more time, creating queues that send clientele...
The Office of the United States Trade Representatives (USTR) undercut global efforts to curb smoking by moderating its position during trade talks to forge the...
H.B. Fuller is building a new technical centre to strengthen the company hub in Lüneburg, Germany, and continue transformation of its European business, the...
Imperial Tobacco nine-month stick-equivalent volume fell 7 per cent and sales by 3 per cent as struggling European economies, particularly Spain, undercut...
US tobacco regulators sent warning letters to three small manufacturers and a retailer for promoting or selling RYO tobacco labelled pipe tobacco, the Food and...
The Revenues and Duties Ministry plans new excise stamps with security features for tobacco products from 1 Sept to combat illicit trade and protect consumers...
Alliance One International reported an operating loss of nearly USD 8 million (EUR 6 million) for the three months to 30 June, influenced by restructuring...
Universal Corp quarterly tobacco operating income plummeted 86 per cent on the absence of carryover shipments from Africa and higher leaf prices in South...
Universal Corp and botanical extraction company Avoca Inc formed a joint venture (JV) to produce pharmaceutical-grade liquid nicotine for the e-cigarette...