The number of legal challenges is mounting against the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) new rules to regulate electronic cigarettes and cigars, with at...
Archive - July 2016
The World Bank International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) struck down a suit by Philip Morris International (PMI) for damages resulting...
Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa issued a directive banning shisha with immediate effect to counter the growing popularity of hookah tobacco smoking among youth...
Flue-cured Virginia seed sales as of July were 27 per cent below last year as tobacco growers reacted to adverse weather that lowered return this season and a...
The European Union will end a controversial anti-smuggling pact with Philip Morris International under which PMI paid about EUR 1 billion (USD 1.1 billion) to...
Booker Group, the UK’s largest food wholesaler, said tobacco sales fell 7.7 per cent in the three months to 17 June, a decline it attributed to imposition of...
Swedish Match mounted a legal challenge to the European Union’s ban on snus by petitioning a British court to refer its complaint to the European Court of...
Proposition 56, the California referendum that would increase the state cigarette tax by USD 2 (EUR 1.80) per pack, will be on the 8 November ballot, the state...
British American Tobacco, responding to a report that use of child labour on farms supplying BAT is “widespread", said it had uncovered no problems but...
Imperial Tobacco will close its Mullingar factory due to packaging changes in the revised EU Tobacco Products Directive that increased the minimum sized for...
Therese Esperdy, an experienced international investment banker, has joined the Board of Directors at Imperial Brands as an independent non-executive director...