Category :News This Week

Japan Tobacco Inc. said today that it was redesigning three of its Pianissimo products—Pianissimo Lucia Menthol, Pianissimo Pétil Menthol One and Pianissimo Fram Menthol One—though no changes were being made to their Read More

Pro Carton is inviting entries for its 2014 ECMA Award, which is said to be open to the whole supply chain, from the carton-board and carton industries to designers, brand owners and retailers. The last date Read More

// Philip Morris Limited (PML) said today that it was to stop cigarette manufacturing in Australia by the end of this year. The manufacture of cigarettes for the Australian market will be moved to PML’s Read More

Ireland was the third highest on a list of EU countries for non-duty-paid tobacco (NDP) in 2013, according to a Sunday World story, which did not include the source of its figures. It came behind Latvia Read More

Taiwan is to introduce less scary graphic images on cigarette pack warnings in the hope of getting smokers at least to look at them, according to a report on Focus Taiwan News Channel. The country’Read More

The Altria Group said yesterday that its subsidiary Nu Mark had completed the acquisition of the e-vapor business of Green Smoke and its affiliates. The transaction is valued at about $110 million in cash and up Read More

The World Health Organization said on Friday that China needed a comprehensive ban on tobacco advertising in order to reduce smoking prevalence in the country, according to a Xinhua News Agency story. What was being Read More

Alliance One International said yesterday that its Brazilian subsidiary, Alliance One Brasil Exportadora de Tabacos (AOB), and China Tabaco Internacional do Brasil (CTIB), the Brazilian subsidiary of China Tobacco, had formed the joint-venture company China Read More

Philip Morris International yesterday released its second progress report on implementation of the company’s Agricultural Labor Practices program (ALP). The program aims progressively to eliminate child labor and other labor abuses on the 490,000 farms (Read More

Imperial Tobacco’s factory in Nantes, France, has been awarded a Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certificate for the use of sustainable materials in its product packaging. The international certificate serves as a guarantee for consumers Read More