A seven-member panel of experts in the fields of law, anti-corruption and law enforcement has been set up to begin awarding grants later this year. Proposals...
Archive - May 2016
Health Minister Bent Hoeie told an Oslo conference the government will submit a bill to parliament in June to remove branding from tobacco products, said the...
The Health Ministry has revived plans to mandate uniform packaging for tobacco products, saying an implementation strategy would go to the government later...
Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne say adding cigarette butts to the mix reduces energy needed to fire bricks by as much as 58 per cent - and makes a...
AR Packaging, based in Lund, Sweden, will be sold to the private equity company CVC Capital Partners, the companies announced.
Alliance One International (AOI) said employee fraud that prompted the company to close its Kenyan procurement office last year caused “discrepancies” in...
A steady decline in raw tobacco production has reduced world volumes enough to bring demand back in line with supply, said Universal Corp Chief Executive...
Japan Tobacco (JT) is in talks with the Ethiopian government after emerging as top bidder for a 40 per cent stake in the state tobacco monopoly, the Nikkei...
US Tobacco Cooperative acquired a 144,000 sq ft marketing centre in Smithfield, North Carolina as part of a strategy to lower its green conversion costs, the...
Japan Tobacco International (JTI) called on health ministers attending the World Health Assembly to lift the closed-door policy of the World Health...
Garbuio Dickinson founder and Managing Director Mansueto Favaro will leave the machine maker this year, to be replaced by Mark Aldridge, said parent company...
Only 11 of 28 European Union member states met the 20 May deadline to pass national laws implementing the revised EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), the...
Lost Art Liquids, a California-based maker of premium vaping liquids, filed a suit challenging the authority of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to...
Ammeraal Beltech acquired its Australian distribution partner Rydell Industrial (Belting) for an undisclosed sum, the conveyor-belt maker said.
The High Court upheld introduction of uniform packaging for tobacco products, rejecting the cigarette makers complaint that plain packs infringe on...
The government is in talks with investors from China and Vietnam to develop the local tobacco industry by constructing facilities for leaf processing and...
Police raided an illicit cigarette factory near Warsaw, seizing three tons of tobacco and more than seven million cigarettes, according to Euronews.
California health groups have collected enough signatures to place an initiative on the 8 Nov ballot to raise the state tobacco tax by USD 2 (EUR 1.76) per...
Molins Chief Executive Officer Dick Hunter will step down on 6 June after running the company for eight years, the company said. His replacement is Antony...
The Illinois Senate in a narrow 23-25 vote rejected legislation to increase the minimum age for purchasing tobacco products to 21 from 18, the Associated Press...