Category :News This Week

JAC Vapour has launched an e-liquid that emits no vapor when exhaled, according to a company press note issued through PRNewswire. The company described Clear Steam as being the first British-made, branded e-liquid that emitted Read More

Fontem Ventures, a wholly owned subsidiary of U.K.-based Imperial Tobacco, has filed patents suits in California against nine U.S. e-cigarette suppliers, including the top three—Lorillard’s Blu Ecigs, NJOY and Logic—Read More

Alliance One’s Turkish subsidiary and Öz-Ege have formed a joint-venture processing and storage facility in Turkey. Under the agreement, Alliance One Tütün and Öz-Ege Tütün will each contract with Oryantal Read More

The Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) has supported a proposal by Kazakhstan’s health ministry to ban the use of smokeless tobacco products (nasvai, snuff and chewing tobacco) in the Customs Union countries of Belarus, Kazakhstan Read More

Japan Tobacco Inc. is due to launch three new versions of its Seven Stars brand, one of the most popular in Japan. The company says that from mid-April Seven Stars Menthol 12 Box, Seven Stars Menthol 8 Read More

Japan Tobacco International was recognized as the third Top Employer in Europe during an awards ceremony held in London on Tuesday. According to a note posted on the company’s website, 25 JTI offices “across Europe Read More

The board of directors of Philip Morris International yesterday declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.94 per common share, payable on April 11 to shareholders of record as of March 27. The ex-dividend date is March 25. At the Read More

KT&G’s manufacturing plant at Sintanjin, north of Daejeon, is now the world’s biggest manufacturer of slim cigarettes, according to the Korea Joongang Daily quoting company sources. An expansion of the production Read More

A police crackdown on public-places tobacco smoking in a major Chinese city on Saturday resulted in just 37 people being fined, according to an Ecns.cn report quoting the Guangzhou Daily. The raids came exactly a Read More

In an effort to help curb the sale of illicit cigarettes, Taiwan’s government is planning to introduce a registration system for cigarette vendors around the country, according to a story in the Taipei Times. Read More