Durante on New Year tour

British American Tobacco’s CEO, Nicandro Durante, was due to arrive in Seoul, South Korea, today on the first stop of a New Year global tour, according to a story in The Korea Times.

Durante, the newspaper said, took the Korean market seriously because it was one of the BAT Group’s top 10 markets.

He was scheduled to visit various group facilities around the world as part of efforts to draw up a global plan for the company.

Durante was particularly interested in his company’s being a ‘socially responsible corporate citizen, building value for the business, for shareholders and for other stakeholders’, the paper reported.