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...