Imperial Tobacco Canada filed suit against the Nova Scotia ban on flavoured tobaccos including menthol cigarettes to take effect on 31 May, the Canadian Press...
Archive - May 2015
Consumption of illicit cigarettes in the European Union declined 3.3 per cent last year, although the estimated volume remains sizeable at more than 10 per...
A decline of 1.5 per cent in consumption of legal cigarettes last year points to stabilisation in a domestic market that has posted 10 per cent declines since...
Japan Tobacco International (JTI) followed Philip Morris International and British American Tobacco in suing the UK government to block introduction of plain...
The Federal Trade Commission in a 3-2 vote approved the USD 27.4 billion (EUR 25.1 billion) Reynolds American (RAI) merger with Lorillard subject to the...
Japan Tobacco (JT) agreed to sell its vending machine business and two beverage brands to Suntory Beverage & Food for JPY 150 billion (EUR 1.12 billion) as...
British American Tobacco and Philip Morris International have filed suit against the UK government over mandated plain packaging for tobacco products, claiming...
A federal appeals court rejected a lower court requirement that tobacco companies run advertisements saying they deliberately deceived the public on health...
Bobst took a majority stake in Nuova Gidue, an Italian manufacturer of narrow and mid-web printing presses, with the option to purchase the remaining shares...
State owned Regie Company in June will start operations at a plant in Hadath with a capacity to boost production from 12,000 boxes of cigarettes per month to...
Leaf tobacco inventories are high enough to expect the current global oversupply to continue despite lower production in Brazil and Africa, said Universal...
The Illinois Supreme Court will rehear the suit by Sharon Price and others against Philip Morris USA that resulted in a USD 10.1 billion (EUR 8.9 billion)...
Government plans to refer the plain-packaging challenge by Japan Tobacco International (JTI) to the European Court of Justice have been delayed by objections...
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The Senate approved stricter controls on tobacco use that could send offenders to jail for six months for lighting up in public places, according the...
Ammeraal Beltech, a leading manufacturer of process and conveyor belts, has been acquired by global private-equity investor Advent International, the belt...
The Food and Drug Administration denied a citizens petition filed in 2011 by RJ Reynolds Tobacco and American Snuff to amend health warnings for smokeless...
The tax rate for cigarette wholesalers on the taxable price of their product was raised to 11 per cent, more than double the previous 5 per cent, Xinhua news...
The European Court of Justice ruled the resignation of former EU health commissioner John Dalli over allegedly improper contacts with the tobacco industry was...
San Francisco became the first US city to ban use of smokeless products at all sports venues, a law that specifically singles out the tradition-rich use of...