Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) said sales in the second half of 2016 should improve as markets normalise after introduction of revised European rules for...
Archive - August 2016
The Tobacco Institute of India (TII) appealed to the government to include tobacco growers and industry representatives in the official delegation to the next...
The revenue office is investigating Philip Morris Korea and British American Tobacco (BAT) Korea on suspicion of evading tax on profits from last year’s...
Delfortgroup in its second US acquisition this year purchased Shamrock Specialty Papers to better serve its North American customers, the company said.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate will not vote this year on the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), effectively leaving the fate of the...
A Missouri judge said a ballot initiative that would raise the state tax on a pack of cigarettes to 60 cents from 17 cents is valid and belongs on the November...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeking nominations for a non-voting representative of the tobacco growing industry to serve on the Tobacco Products...
Colorado voters in November will decide whether to triple the tax on a pack of cigarettes under a state ballot initiative that also would hike duty on other...
Pax Labs has taken on the former North America chief of the Deezer on-demand music service, Tyler Goldman, to manage rapid growth at the maker of Juul and Pax...
Tobacco auctions in Karnataka will begin on 14 Sept at all of the dozen auction platforms located in the state, the Times of India reported.
Instant noodles are displacing the time-honoured jailhouse currency tobacco as inmates barter in calories rather than cigarettes to supplement substandard...
The World Health Organisation named philanthropist and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg as WHO global ambassador for non-communicable diseases.
The Ministry of Health has planned a media campaign ahead of the 1 Sept introduction of pictorial health and addiction warnings covering 75 per cent of...
Sales volume of this year’s crop reached 196 million kg as auction floors closed and contract sales wound down, the Financial Gazette reported.
The Tobacco Board raised the tobacco crop allotment for Andhra Pradesh by 10 million kg to 130 million kg for the 2016-17 growing season, the Economic Times...
US District Court Judge Amit Mehta partially vacated a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines to tobacco companies seeking regulatory approval for...
Nearly three-in-four California voters favour a November ballot question on whether to more than triple the per-pack tax on cigarettes, according to a poll...
The attempted kidnapping of a British American Tobacco (BAT) executive in June may be part of an ongoing struggle between illicit cigarette syndicates and law...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products has launched the newsletter CTPConnect on its website, which it describes as a...
Japan Tobacco International has selected Korea as the first country to relaunch the Mevius premium cigarette with significant packaging changes, according to...