Goebel IMS will deliver nine machines to Hangzhou Huafeng Paper Co of China this year, which the machine maker said represents the biggest single order in the...
Archive - March 2015
Japan Tobacco has filed a legal challenge to the three-week old plain packaging law with the High Court, the Irish Times reported.
A Federal Trade Commission (FTC) decision whether to allow Reynolds American to acquire Lorillard could come this week, the Wall Street Journal said in a story...
Marketing season is off to a slow start with flue-cured volume down 21 per cent through the first twelve days and prices running well below last year, the...
Florida state legislators on the House Civil Justice Subcommittee failed to take up a bill that would set a cap on damage awards against tobacco companies in...
California health officials launched campaign to highlight the dangers of e-cigarettes and combat the growing popularity of vaping, the San Bernadino Sun said.
KPMG has been named external auditor at British American Tobacco to replace PricewaterhouseCoopers, BAT said.
Sales of electronic cigarettes, both with and without nicotine, will be banned to anyone below the age of 18, DutchNews.nl said.
Initially scheduled to begin in July, the safety belt provision is being brought forward to 13 April to coincide with the start of the school term in the...
Increasing the number of countries mandating uniform packaging for tobacco products and that tax those products at 70 per cent of retail price are among goals...
Teenagers in the United Arab Emirates are turning to a potent pipe tobacco containing 44 mg of nicotine per gram dubbed “dizziness” that can cause...
I-Mei Food Co will end the sale of tobacco products in its 88 stores in April, according to the Taipei Times.
Plain packaging is reducing the appeal of cigarettes with youth and has not led to an increase in consumption of illicit “cheap whites”, according to what...
KT&G sales abroad are expected to outstrip revenue generated in its home market for the first time this year, the Korea Herald reported.
World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan called for a global push to “make sure that the tobacco industry goes out of business”...
Michael Bloomberg and Bill Gates launched a litigation fund to help countries fight off industry legal challenges to strong tobacco laws, Bloomberg...
Retailers testifying against a potentially ground breaking bill before the Tasmanian Parliament to ban sales of tobacco products to everyone born this...
Goebel Schneid- und Wickelsysteme and IMS, two subsidiaries of IMS Deltamatic that manufacture slitter rewinders, have merged operations into newly created...
The House of Lords gave final parliamentary approval to plain packaging for cigarettes and hand-rolling tobacco, setting the stage for implementation next May...
The House of Commons in a 367-113 bipartisan vote opted to introduce uniform packaging for cigarettes and hand-rolled tobaccos, setting the stage for final...