Alliance One International will reduce exposure to peripheral markets and focus on core business over the next 18 months to improve profitability, the company...
Archive - February 2015
The government in late February will seek public input on whether to mandate uniform packaging for tobacco products, the Ministry of Health and Care Services...
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs James Reilly, the health minister until last July, ruled out changes to tobacco plain packaging legislation expected to...
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, who directed tobacco regulation since the agency was handed the task in 2009, will step down in...
Philip Morris International (PMI) cigarette shipment volume fell 8.4 billion units or 3.8 per cent in the fourth quarter as demand weakened in Eastern Europe...
The traditional mid-February start to the tobacco marketing season likely will be delayed one month due to rains, the Zimbabwe Herald said.
Japan Tobacco International (JTI) shipped nearly 20 billion fewer cigarettes last year, a 4.7 per cent decline to 398 billion sticks that the company said...
Universal Corp third-quarter operating profit rose 25 per cent to USD 93.5 million (EUR 82.2 million) as lower costs offset a 1 per cent decline in sales, the...
Police shut down an illegal tobacco processing plant, the first discovery of its kind in Northern Ireland, in a series of raids in conjunction with an...
Northern Ireland Health Minister Jim Wells said his government backs uniform packaging for cigarettes, and that he expects the proposal will be implemented...
Cigarette sales are recovering little by little and the boom in e-cigarettes has eased following massive price increases mandated by the government in January...
Altria President and Chief Operating Officer David Beran, 60, will retire 1 March, ending a 38-year career at the company. He will be replaced as COO by Chief...
Philip Morris USA shipping volume declined an adjusted 2 per cent in the final business quarter and 3 per cent for all of last year, in line with an estimated...