Category :News This Week

The prices paid for farmers’ tobacco by Alliance One International during the second quarter of this financial year were generally below those of ‘last season’. In announcing the company’s second quarter results to the Read More

Portable devices are expected to be used in the Netherlands to take from cafés air samples that will later be analyzed to help inspectors determine whether the national tobacco smoking ban has been broken, Read More

The UK smokers’ group Forest is today marking its 35th anniversary with a special smoker-friendly party in London. Two hundred guests are expected to attend the event, Forest@35, including several members of parliament. The event, Read More

Zimbabwe last year lost about US$6 billion through exporting unprocessed tobacco rather than finished tobacco products, according to a New Zimbabwe story quoting policy analyst Butler Tambo. Tambo, who was addressing an ‘Ideas Festival’ organized Read More

Imperial Tobacco’s volume shipments of cigarettes and other tobacco products calculated as ‘stick equivalents’ (SE) during the 12 months to the end of September, at 294 billion, were down by seven percent on those of the 12 Read More

Flavor and aroma are the keys to two new products due to be launched by Japan Tobacco Inc next month. The company said in a note posted on its website today that Cabin Gold Wild 8 Read More

The management of Reynolds American and its operating companies will discuss the companies’ performances and plans during presentations to the investment community on November 17. The presentations will be webcast on a listen-only basis at www.Read More

Imperial Tobacco full-year 2014 results interview with CEO Alison Cooper & CFO Oliver Tant. This video was published by MerchantCantos.Read More

Subsidiaries of Philip Morris International today obtained a green light from an English Court to challenge the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), according to a Read More

The government of Nepal decided on Thursday to make it mandatory for tobacco companies to devote ‘at least 90 percent’ of their packs to health warnings, according to a story in The Kathmandu Post. It wasn’Read More