Tobacco Board presents Bommidala with cigarette and cut rag export awards

Bommidala Enterprises, part of the BBM Bommidala Group, has been recognized for its exports from India of both cigarettes and cut rag.

Each year, the Tobacco Board of India, as part of its Formation Day celebrations, awards certificates of excellence and medals to tobacco growers; cigarette manufacturers; exporters of unmanufactured tobacco, cut tobacco and tobacco products; and tobacco dealers and traders.

The awards for 2012, announced this month, recognized Bommidala Enterprises as India’s second-ranked exporter of cut tobacco and its third-ranked exporter of cigarettes.

This was the sixth consecutive year for which the group, which has interests in unmanufactured tobacco, cigarettes, cut rag and duty-free goods, had received certificates of excellence in the cut rag and cigarette categories.