Only 2.3 per cent of nearly USD 391 billion (EUR 285 billion) in Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) payments by cigarette makers and tobacco taxes was spent on...
Archive - December 2013
Robin Saunders, NewCo country manager for Malawi, was appointed board member of the Tobacco Control Commission, NewCo announced.
A letter to US Trade Representative Michael Froman from 32 public health organizations demands removal of tobacco products from Trans-Pacific Partnership...
Talks to reconcile differences in proposals on tobacco-product regulation in the European Union are progressing and may conclude this year, said a Brussels...
Philip Morris International (PMI) took a 20 per cent stake in Megapolis Distribution of Russia for USD 750 million (EUR 553 million) to support expansion, the...
Japan Tobacco (JT) and Philip Morris International (PMI) in separate announcements said they bought 20 per cent stakes in the company distributing their...
Star Tobacco International named Christopher Maan commercial director for sales, Akin Akdogan director for tobacco monopolies/logistics, and Baldev Mistry as...
Zoom E-Cigs will launch its first product in January, a non-rechargeable e-cigarette line to be distributed nationwide by Ligget Vector Brands, the company...
LOGIC Technology, which calls itself the number two e-cigarette company in the US, said it will boost its European presence by adding 10,000 stores in the UK...
Philip Morris International (PMI) sales volume fell 21 per cent and market share by nearly 14 percentage points in the first nine months of 2013 due to higher...
Excise tax on a pack of cigarettes rose 12.5 per cent from 1 Dec under the first of four annual tobacco-tax hikes expected to raise the average pack price to...