Niels Frederiksen, 50, will replace Anders Colding Friis as chief executive officer of Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG), the world’s largest manufacturer of...
Archive - January 2015
California State Senator Ed Hernandez introduced a bill to raise the legal minimum age of smokers to 21 from 18, a proposal close on the heels of a similar...
Malawi President Peter Mutharika said widespread flooding has delivered a major blow to tobacco, the country’s major export earner, reported South Africa’s...
California state health officials announced an educational campaign against the use of e-cigarettes and called for stricter regulation, the Los Angeles Times...
Shareholders approved the Reynolds American Inc USD 27.4 billion (EUR 24.1 billion) deal to purchase Lorillard and spin assets off to Imperial Tobacco, the...
Philip Morris USA was found liable for USD 17.2 million (EUR 14.9 million) in damages by a federal court jury in the first Engle-progeny decision this year...
MeadWestvaco (MWV) agreed to sell its European tobacco folding carton business, including three manufacturing units and 680 employees, to AR Packaging Group of...
Vaping at high voltage creates formaldehyde releasing agents that may pose a much greater health risk from the cancer causing agent than traditional...
Pedro Malan, former Brazilian finance minister and central bank chief, is one of three non-executive director appointments to the Main Board of British...
“It is regrettable that this issue has been caught up in knee-jerk electioneering at the expense of evidence-based policy making”, Imperial said in a...
Public Health Minister Jane Ellison said a proposal requiring plain packaging for tobacco products would be put to a parliamentary vote before the May general...
Tax must be increased and equalised across the spectrum of tobacco products to achieve the goal of halving the smoking rate in 10 years, the American Lung...
Reynolds American (RAI) and Lorillard reached agreements with litigants that remove impediments to shareholder approval of their proposed merger at...
A Greek investor plans to begin construction of tobacco processing facility this spring in Kirkovo, a municipality in southern Bulgaria, Novinite.com reported.
Taxed cigarette volume last year fell to 79.5 billion units, a 0.9 per cent decline from 2013 and 67 billion sticks less than in 1991, the first year of a...
Electronic Cigarettes International Group (ECIG) named former Molson’s chief executive officer Dan O’Neill executive chairman and Phil Anderson chief...
The state tobacco monopoly generated CNY 1.05 trillion (EUR 146 billion) in profit and taxes last year, a gain of 10 per cent from 2013, Xinhua news agency...
Malaysia’s Bright Packaging Industry Berhad (BPIB) will supply aluminium foil to ZAO Philip Morris Izhora of Russia under an agreement to run until the end...
Cigarettes obtained outside standard retail channels account for nearly half of total consumption, according to a survey cited by Norway Today.
Volume at Marikina has declined by more than 30 per cent since 2012 due to illicit trade in cigarettes and levy increases, according to the Reuters report...