Japan Tobacco (JT) has announced that it has finished the acquisition of the tobacco business of the Akij Group, which is based in Bangladesh, according to a...
Archive - November 2018
Shaikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, UAE Minister of Finance and Chairman of the Federal Tax Authority (FTA), has announced that all...
Recreational marijuana will become legal in the Great Lakes’ state on 6 December, according to a report by CTV Windsor.
The European Court of Justice has announced that the sale of snus, the moist snuff tobacco product made by Swedish Match, will continue to be banned in all EU...
Cigarette packaging will soon sport court-ordered corrective statements that point out the adverse health effects of smoking, CNN reported.
Japan Tobacco International (JTI) reported third quarter gains in shipment volume, revenue and operating profit, driven by acquisitions in Ethiopia, Greece...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced its proposal to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes and flavoured cigars, and to put new restrictions on...
Efforts to import fewer cigarettes and increase domestic production have resulted in an almost 9 per cent drop in tobacco imports for the January-October...
DuPont Vice President Donna Grier has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Pyxus International, the agricultural company said in a press release.
Juul Labs said it would discontinue the sale of most flavours, but that products with mint, tobacco and menthol flavours would remain on sale at retail...
In Imperial Brand’s preliminary results for the reporting period which ended 30 September 2018, the company announced that tobacco and Next Generation...
Imperial Brands has announced that Sue Clark will join the board as an independent non-executive director on 1 December 2018 in a company press release.
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has decided not to renew partnerships with the tobacco industry through which it had received funding for projects...
Police and customs authorities seized around ten tonnes of loose tobacco and 411,000 illicit cigarettes from a commercial premises in the Newry area in...
The stock market value of cigarette makers British American Tobacco (BAT) and Imperial Brands slipped by a combined GBP 8.6 billion (EUR 9.8 billion) after US...
The company plans to relocate processing operations currently located at its facility in Farmville, North Carolina, to the Wilson facility. The changes are...
British American Tobacco (BAT) has appointed Luciano Comin to succeed Kingsley Wheaton as the company’s Regional Director for the Americas and Sub-Saharan...
Police raided four cigarette factories that had been producing counterfeit sticks and seized cigarette cartons worth EUR 22 million (USD 25 million)...
The Ministry of Health has proposed changes to tobacco laws that would see all tobacco products sold in standardised packaging and larger pictorial warnings...
At least 100 groups have jointly urged the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to stop receiving money from tobacco companies and to cut ties with the...