Cigarette maker ITC gained a partial victory when a high court said the government may not seize inventory manufactured before larger health warnings came into...
Archive - April 2016
Philip Morris USA increased cigarette-market share 0.3 percentage points to 51.4 per cent in the first quarter due to rising popularity of its L&M discount...
World Tobacco Process and Machinery Asia was the target of at least 100 student demonstrators who said machines on display at the trade show would serve to...
The Royal College of Physicians in a 200-page report rejected arguments that e-cigarettes represent a gateway or normalise Smoking, and said vaping is a...
British American Tobacco announced the retirements of Karen de Segundo, the Board member who chaired the corporate and social responsibility (CSR) committee...
The Commerce and Industry Ministry is preparing a proposal to completely ban foreign direct investment (FDI) in the tobacco sector, the Press Trust of India...
Cigarette prices on military bases will be increased to equal those on products sold in nearby civilian outlets, Reuters reported.
Cigarette volume at British American Tobacco increased 4 billion sticks in the first quarter to 156 billion, adjusted for acquisitions, as the company...
Reynolds American Chief Executive Officer Susan Cameron will remain at RAI beyond her initial departure date to see through integration of the Newport brand...
ITG Brands expects to make 375 workers redundant at its Greensboro, North Carolina plant with the end of a deal to manufacture Newport cigarettes for Reynolds...
Health Canada is looking at forcing tobacco companies to make less addictive cigarettes, the National Post reported.
A class-action suit filed against Santa Fe Natural Tobacco for using descriptives like 'natural‘ and 'additive free‘ has been moved to US...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it will launch a USD 36 million (EUR 32 million) campaign to educate rural teenagers about the dangers of using...
A group of US senators called on the White House Office of Management and Budget to release a final rule to expand the scope of US tobacco regulation, saying...
A House committee approved a bi-partisan measure to ease restrictions on keeping vaping products in the market once the industry becomes regulated, various...
Global cigarette shipments, excluding China and the US, should decline 2 to 2.5 per cent this year after falling an estimated 2.4 per cent in 2015, Philip...
Australian-based Amcor will pay USD 435 million (EUR 385 million) to acquire four South American plants capable of film extrusion, flexographic, gravure...
Growers in the state of Gujarat are unable to sell their crop due to a production halt by bidi and cigarette makers in April, the peak of selling season, the...
The conglomerate ITC Ltd named Sandeep Kaul chief executive of its cigarette business, replacing Hermant Malik, the Economic Times said.
President Peter Mutharika made a plea to buyers to pay fair prices to growers as the marketing season opened with leaf bringing up to USD 1.84 (EUR 1.62) per...