Altria Group revenues net of excise tax jumped 4.7 per cent in the third quarter to USD 5 billion (EUR 4.56 billion) driven by higher pricing and volumes, the...
Archive - October 2015
Zimbabwe leaf exports are up on 2014 with 97.3 million kg shipped year to date compared to 88.7 million kg in the same period last year, according to Tobacco...
A Canadian appeals court has ordered Imperial Tobacco Canada and Rothmans, Benson & Hedges Inc to set aside a combined CAD 984 million (EUR 674 million) as the...
British American Tobacco (BAT) year to date reported revenue fell by 6.5 per cent at current exchange rates due to “significant movements” in key trading...
Reynolds American (RAI) tightened its forecast earnings growth for 2015 by two percentage points following strong key-brand performance's hike in...
Ministry of Health officials said yesterday that the government plans to revise the National Health Promotion Act to ban the sale and advertisement of...
Tobacco control activists have cited health grounds in urging the government to reject USD 2 billion (EUR 1.8 billion) investment plans in the country by...
22nd Century, the biotech company that modifies tobacco plants to create low- and high-nicotine variants, will export its proprietary seeds to contract growers...
Reynolds American (RAI) profit this year will be higher than initially forecast following acquisition of Lorillard and its flagship Newport menthol brand, the...
Tomra Sorting Solutions appointed regional sales executive Lars Janssens to the newly created post of market manager for tobacco, the company said.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) submitted its proposal to expand tobacco product regulatory powers to include e-cigarettes, cigars and shisha to the...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) plans to collect data from the e-cigarette industry on sales, marketing activities and expenditures to better understand a...
A decade-long dispute between tobacco companies in the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) and New York state has been settled for USD 550 million (EUR 485...
Tomra Sorting Tobacco has launched what it calls the world’s first sorting system integrating string removal, metal detection, product singulation and...
Philip Morris International (PMI) shipment volume dipped 1.5 per cent in the third quarter as cigarette demand declined in Asia, notably Indonesia, Japan and...
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health, an informal body of Parliament said the tax on tobacco products should be increased by 5 per cent more...
Bobst said it will exercise an option to raise its stake to 100 per cent in Gordon Ltd, the holding company for Shanghai Eternal Machinery, maker of Eterna and...
Innovia Group, a manufacturer of BOPP films, announced a partnership with Rolling Optics to incorporate the Swedish company’s micro-optic 3D...
Dutch tobacco machinery maker ITM acquired Gemba Solutions, a specialist in overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) software, the company announced.
Smoke-Free Alternatives Trade Association (SFATA) Executive Director Cynthia Cabrera will replace Phil Daman as president and chief executive, the organisation...