Tasmania has dropped plans to raise the smoking age to as high as 25 after lengthy consultations, the Australian Broadcast Corporation said in a report citing...
Archive - July 2016
British American Tobacco said Senior Independent Director Christine Morin-Postel will leave the Main Board at the end of this year and named former Celesio...
Japanese smokers represent 19.3 per cent of the adult population a decline of 0.6 percentage points representing 570,000 people, according to an annual survey...
British American Tobacco organic volume increased 2.1 per cent in the first six months of 2016 as the company increased its share of key markets, BAT said.
Philip Morris USA sales and cigarette shipping volume declined in the second quarter, but product price increases coupled with lower administrative and...
Reynolds American completed integration of the acquired Newport brand into RJ Reynolds Tobacco in June, six months earlier than planned, RAI said.
Scandinavian Tobacco Group’s Hermod Hvid, employee representative on the Board of Directors since March, 2015, died on 18 July after an illness of several...
The government is planning a levy on vaping liquids, including those without nicotine, which could double the price of e-cigarettes, the broadcaster Yle...
South African Airways (SAA) and low-cost carrier Mango flew 300 passengers from Johannesburg to Cape Town on 15 July, in what was described as Africa’s first...
Philip Morris International (PMI) said its iQOS heat-not-burn product increased its market share in Japan, one of a handful of countries where the device has...
Three cigar industry associations have asked a federal court to block the Food and Drug Administration from implementing the deeming rule to expand FDA tobacco...
The Food and Drug Administration is taking applications for a tobacco manufacturing industry representative on the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Panel...
Japan Tobacco acquired 40 per cent of National Tobacco Enterprise Ethiopia from the Addis Ababa government for USD 510 million (EUR 462 million) to boost its...
The US Tobacco Cooperative (USTC) appointed Fred McClintock vice president for information technology, responsible for IT operations and long term systems...
Eby-Brown, the country’s largest privately owned distributor of tobacco, candy and convenience store products, will open a distribution centre next year in...
Cigarette production at the British American Tobacco factory in Bayreuth will cease by the end of 2017 and 970 jobs made redundant in response to declining...
Three Alabama vapor shop owners filed suit against the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), saying compliance costs of new e-cigarette regulations will...
British American Tobacco is planning to end cigarette manufacturing in Bayreuth, BAT’s largest manufacturing site, and shift production to Eastern Europe...
Tobacco growers have sold 167 million kilogrammes, exceeding the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) forecast of 160 million kg for this marketing...
Universal Corp closed its processing plant in Nyíregyháza, Hungary, to concentrate handling of Hungarian tobaccos at its Italian facilities, the US-based...