Star Tobacco International announced creation of a consulting subsidiary, Tobacco Solutions Asia Ltd (TSAL), to market expertise from plant cultivation through cigarette production.

TSAL is headquartered in Hong Kong and supported by offices in Johannesburg, Sofia and Istanbul, the corporate headquarters of Star Tobacco International.
A team of consultants with more than 100 years of tobacco experience will advise on management, technical, equipment and agricultural issues from cultivation, threshing and primary processing to cigarette design and production, the parent company said in a statement.