The Karnataka High Court vacated a stay on regulations that require more than doubling the warnings on tobacco packaging to 85 per cent, clearing the way for...
Archive - February 2016
Philip Morris International (PMI) signed a 3-year deal with the Athens government for the purchase of 30,000 tons oriental tobacco, the company said.
Tobacco output this year may decline 10 per cent or more due to drought and a late start to the cropping season, according to a Tobacco Industry and Marketing...
The lower house Bundestag incorporated the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) into national law, rejecting industry pleas to delay implementation of new...
British American Tobacco (BAT) cigarette volume declined 0.8 per cent last year, which the tobacco company said was "significantly better" than an...
Baumer hhs, maker of products that include gluing components for cigarette packs, will establish a Spanish subsidiary near Tarragona to better serve its...
Following adoption of standardised branding and package colours by Australia in 2012, several European countries will introduce generic packs this May. ...
The Food and Drug Administration Centre for Tobacco products is collecting data on waterpipes and waterpipe tobaccos to assist the agency in regulating the...
Authorities shut down an illegal cigarette factory in northern Bulgaria, seizing machinery and materials that included about 13 tons of tobacco, the Sofia News...
Japan Tobacco (JT) received permission from the Finance Ministry to increase the domestic price of its Mevius premium brand and a half-dozen discount brands...
Swedish Match increased its share of the snus value segment in its domestic market by 2.8 percentage points to 39.1 per cent last year and sales of its General...
State health insurance no longer will pay for drugs used to treat lung cancer in smokers and former smokers under a controversial regulation that took effect...
The Supreme Administrative Court ruled e-cigarettes are not a medicine, and therefore the National Drug Agency has no authority to block their sale, AFP...
ITG Brands told employees there would be staff reductions at the cigarette factory it acquired last year as part of the deal under which Reynolds American...
Japan Tobacco International (JTI) acquired a 50 per cent stake in cigarette and cigar maker La Tabacalera, the EFE news agency reported.
The Food and Drug Administration’s Centre for Tobacco Products is looking for tobacco product manufacturers willing to help test a website designed to...
Universal Leaf Tobacco Magyarország expects to reduce growing areas and buy less crop again this year due to oversupply, the Budapest Business Journal...
The World Health Organisation plans to promote and facilitate the adoption of plain packaging for tobacco products as this year’s theme for World No Tobacco...
Konradin Selection, publisher of Tobacco Journal International, will act as media partner for the InterSupply trade show to be held annually in Germany, the...
The bill, which would force tobacco companies to adopt plain packaging similar to that in Australia, was tabled pending the outcome of legal action against the...