The Bulgarian manufacturer King’s Tobacco is one of 45 companies that will be exhibiting for the first time or returning after a break at the TFWA World Exhibition 2013. In all, 470 exhibitors taking up 21,000 square meters Read More
Jakarta’s provincial government says it is considering increasing cigarette taxes in an effort to reduce cigarette smoking among Jakartans. The plan, contained in a draft bylaw, has apparently been put before the Jakarta parliament Read More
The electronic cigarette manufacturer and distributor Gamucci has appointed Peter Jordan (pictured) as CFO. Jordan has more than 20 years’ experience in senior financial, commercial and management roles, the majority in the tobacco industry with Rothmans Read More
Cancer researchers in Tampa, Florida, USA, have created an online survey to learn more about why smokers choose e-cigarettes, according to a Tampa Bay Online story. The Moffitt Cancer Center researchers, in collaboration with those Read More
CTBAT International Ltd., a Hong Kong-incorporated joint investment of subsidiaries of China National Tobacco Corp. and British American Tobacco, “recently” started “official business operations,” according to a note posted on BAT’s website. The joint Read More
Papastratos’ leaf warehouse at Agrinio, Greece, is to be transformed into an oriental leaf logistics hub for Europe, according to a joint announcement by Philip Morris International and its affiliate, Papastratos Cigarette Manufacturing. The facility, Read More
The EU’s proposed new Tobacco Products Directive could threaten as much as 70 percent of the snus now sold in Sweden, the only EU country allowed to sell this product, according to a story in Read More
Lorillard’s chairman, president and CEO, Murray S. Kessler, and its CFO, David H. Taylor, are due to participate in the Barclays Back-to-School Consumer Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, from 1:30 p.m. to 2:10 p.m. Read More
Quote of the day, week … year: “Yep, it’s gonna kill him one of these days.” This was a comment apparently made by Bill McClain about his father, Levie Russell McClain, of Madison County, Georgia, Read More