Shipments of Philip Morris USA’s flagship Marlboro brand rose 3 per cent to 28.5 billion sticks in the second quarter as the cigarette increased its market...
Archive - July 2015
British American Tobacco (BAT) operating profit in the first half of 2015 fell 4.6 per cent due to expected adverse movements in foreign exchange rates but...
Parliament raised excise duty on tobacco products to 170 per cent of the ex-factory price from 150 per cent primarily to reduce consumption, the government...
Workers at the Essentra filter manufacturing plant in Jarrow may strike to save as many as 220 jobs at the facility that could be closed by the end of the...
A Quebec court ruled cigarette makers must not make the CAD 1.13 billion (EUR 791million) initial payment in a CAD 15.6 billion class-action award to former...
The Senate panel reviewing a bill that would introduce uniform packaging for cigarettes removed the plain-pack requirement, calling instead for large health...
Tobacconists covered speed cameras with plastic bags to protest legislation requiring plain packaging for cigarettes that is scheduled for a Senate vote on 22...
The British Standards Institution (BSI) in collaboration with the Electronic Cigarette Industry Trade Association (ECITA) has released a set of voluntary...
Foreign exchange earnings from US sales of Swedish Match snus and moist snuff and a booming cigar market backed a 9 per cent increase in second-quarter...
Philip Morris International (PMI) second-quarter shipment volume at nearly 220 billion sticks dipped 1.3 per cent following an increase in the first three...