California will more than double the duty on tobacco products other than cigarettes from 1 July, an increase that includes e-liquids containing nicotine...
Archive - June 2017
Dr Roger Penn, the long time director of flavour maker Mane’s Tobacco Business Unit, is retiring and will leave the company at the end of June.
Tobacco volume and sales through 26 June at 166.8 million kg and USD 489.3 million (EUR 435.1 million) are nearly identical with the same period last marketing...
Smokers account for less than 20 per cent of adults aged 20 and up for the first time on record, according to a government survey cited by Kyodo News.
A proposal to tax heat-not-burn tobacco products at the same rate as combustible cigarettes is before the National Assembly, the Korea Herald reported.
Molins has agreed sell its Instrumentation and Tobacco Machinery (I&TM) unit to G.D of Italy for GBP 30 million (EUR 34.4 million) in order to exit a sector...
The Trade Ministry has drafted a regulation that would place limits on imported tobacco to ensure the domestic crop is purchased at an adequate price, Antara...
KT&G, Korea’s largest cigarette maker, plans to introduce a tobacco heating device in September to be able to compete in the country’s fast-growing market...
Tobacco imports through the first 10 months of fiscal 2017 represent a 49 per cent increase from the comparable period in the prior fiscal year, according to...
RJ Reynolds Tobacco and Philip Morris USA sued the state of Oklahoma to lift a “smoking cessation fee” enacted in the final days of the legislative session...
A 48-acre site that housed the former Imperial Tobacco cigarette factory and distribution centre in Nottingham has been sold to Henry Boot Developments.
Philip Morris International announced a EUR 500 million (USD 560 million) expansion of its Italian IQOS heat-sticks factory as the latest in a series of major...
Philip Morris International will invest USD 320 million (EUR 286 million) in a new German plant to make tobacco heating sticks that is expected to be fully...
Tobacco sold at auction through 58 days of the marketing season has fetched an average USD 2.90 per kg (EUR 2.59) compared with USD 2.92 in 2016, the Zimbabwe...
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a ban on the sale of menthol cigarettes and flavoured e-liquids that contain nicotine, the San...
Anti-trust watchdog CNMC has launched a probe into suspected collusion in manufacturing, distribution and marketing of tobacco products by Spanish subsidiaries...
British American Tobacco and Reynolds American said the nearly USD 50 billion (EUR 44.6 billion) takeover of RAI by BAT could be completed by 25 July, pending...
Alliance One International sales fell 10 per cent and the company reported a USD 62.9 million (EUR 56.2 million) net loss for fiscal 2017, citing poor weather...
The adult smoking rate fell to 15.8 per cent of the population in 2016, and 5.6 per cent said they used e-cigarettes, the Office for National Statistics said.
The number of middle- and high-school students using vaping products fell by more than one quarter between 2015 and 2016, the latest National Youth Tobacco...