Philip Morris International is due to host a live audio webcast at www.pmi.com/2014InvestorDay of senior management presentations and Q&A sessions at its 2014 Investor Day, which will be held at its Read More
The Innovia Group’s management was named the National Large Buyout Private Equity Backed Management Team of the Year at the British Private Equity Venture Capital Association’s (BVCA) ceremony dinner held in London on Read More
Vrijdag Premium Printing has invested in a new Bobst machine for applying high-quality foil to labels and packaging, allowing the company to respond with even greater speed and flexibility to market demands. The machine has Read More
Gamucci Corporation has set up a new scientific products division and appointed Adrian Marshall (pictured) as divisional CEO. In a press note, the company said it had established the new division with the aim of Read More
Plans by the government of Bangladesh to raise the prices of bidis in the next fiscal year would send the industry to the verge of collapse, according to a story in the Daily Star, quoting Read More
The U.K. smokers’ group Forest has announced that Brendan O’Neill, editor of the online magazine Spiked, is to speak at Forest’s Freedom Dinner on July 15. A blogger for the Telegraph and a Read More
Indonesia’s Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (FDMA) has told tobacco companies to comply with a government regulation requiring pictorial health warnings on cigarette packs by June 24, reports The Jakarta Post. Indonesian tobacco companies produced 3,392 Read More
R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co. will expand distribution of its Vuse digital vapor cigarette nationally in the United States beginning June 23. Selected retail outlets across the country will be carrying Vuse as of that date, Read More
E-cigarettes might be closer to smoking cessation devices than to regular cigarettes, and regulators are keeping “an open mind” on their potential health benefit, according to a story by Edney Anna for Business Week (Bloomberg), Read More
The Uganda Tobacco Growers Association (UTGA) has petitioned the speaker of parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, to consider their views on the Tobacco Control Bill, which is yet to be tabled. The farmers are opposed to a Read More