Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court ordered the country's leading tobacco product manufacturer, Ceylon Tobacco Company (CTC), to cover 60 per cent of the front...
Archive - July 2014
Reynolds American Inc (RAI) confirmed it is exploring a takeover of Lorillard and, in a separate statement, Imperial Tobacco said it is talking to the two...
World Health Organisation Director-General Margaret Chan said the government must diversify powers granted the state monopoly to oversee and promote the...
Fifty Substantial Equivalence (SE) Orders permitting marketing of new tobacco products were issued in June, more than double the number of approvals since...
Imperial Tobacco plans to close its cigarette factory in Bishkek due to overcapacity, according to the Times of Central Asia.
Former British American Tobacco (BAT) executive Adrian Marshall has been named to head the newly formed Scientific Products Division at Gamucci, the UK-based...
Komori-Chambon will move offset press manufacturing capacity from Orléans to Tsukuba, Japan, in a rationalization measure the company said would boost...
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi raised tax on cigarettes by 50 per cent and alcoholic beverages by up to 200 per cent, a measure his predecessor Mohammed Morsi...
Hauni Maschinenbau bought Italian primary equipment specialist Garbuio Dickinson, an acquisition that will strengthen research, development and service...
Tobacco sold at the end of the market season totalled 205.5 million kilograms (453 million pounds) and brought a lower average price of USD 3.17 (EUR 2.32) per...
Philip Morris International (PMI) will introduce its reduced risk iQOS cigarette system in Japan and Italy toward the end of this year, the company told...
European trademark protection groups in a joint statement criticized government plans to introduce uniform packaging for tobacco products, saying the proposal...
The Supreme Administrative Court overturned a lower court injunction issued last August against introduction of pictorial health warnings on 85 per cent of the...