Category :News This Week

The Northern Ireland Assembly voted on Monday to accept the introduction of standardized packaging for cigarettes, according to a BBC Online story. Assembly members voted on a legislative consent motion on the Children and Families Read More

Cancer is on the rise in Singapore as the consequences of modern lifestyles – including smoking and over-eating – add to the problems of an aging population, says a story in the Straits Times. According to the Read More

Online visitor registration for the annual TFWA Asia Pacific Exhibition & Conference is due to open on February 19 at www.tfwa.com. The event is to be staged in the Marina Bay Sands Expo & Read More

The Altria Group is due to host a webcast of its business presentation at the annual Consumer Analyst Group of New York conference in Boca   Raton, Florida, starting about 09.15 hours Eastern Time on February 19. The Read More

Alliance One International’s gross profit during its third quarter to the end of December, at $83.8 million, was up by 0.9 per cent on that of the third quarter to the end of December 2012, despite sales Read More

Cigarette production in Armenia last year, at 7,729,500,000, was up by 25.6 per cent on that of 2012, 6,155,000,000, according to an Armenian News Agency story quoting figures from the National Statistical Service. The story said also that cigarette Read More

Cigarette prices in Jordan were increased by 100 fils (JD0.10: there are 1,000 fils to the dinar) a pack as of yesterday, while the price of hookah tobacco went up by JD1.2 per kg, according to a Read More

Iain Napier is due to retire as non-executive chairman, and Berge Setrakian is due to retire as a non-executive director at the end of Imperial Tobacco’s annual general meeting, which is being held today. Read More

British America Tobacco Zimbabwe has spent more than US$5 million over the past five years in capital investments, according to a story in The Herald quoting the company’s finance director, Peter Doona. About 50 per Read More

Egypt’s Ministry of Finance has produced a cigarette price list and consumers are being asked to inform the country’s tax authority if they are asked by retailers to pay more than the list Read More