Category :News This Week

Bommidala Enterprises, part of the BBM Bommidala Group, has been recognized for its exports from India of both cigarettes and cut rag. Each year, the Tobacco Board of India, as part of its Formation Day Read More

An Ontario company is asking smokers to stop throwing out their stubbed-out cigarette butts and instead send them in for recycling so they can be turned into useful products, according to a Canadian Television report. Read More

Transparency, public health and tobacco control NGOs have written to EU Commission President, José Barroso, to complain about Commission officials having undisclosed meetings with tobacco lobbyists in violation of UN rules, according to a story Read More

Investors in Imperial Tobacco have raised questions over planned changes to its executive compensation structure, according to a story in the Electronic Telegraph. Discussions on the proposals, which could allow the board to change the Read More

The Altria Group is due to host a live audio webcast at www.altria.com starting at 0.900 hours Eastern Time on January 31 to discuss its 2012 fourth-quarter and full-year business results. The results will be issued Read More

Tax payments by China’s tobacco companies last year, at Yuan864.9 billion (US$137.7 billion), were up by 15.7 per cent on those of 2011, according to a Xinhua Newswire story. In addition the industry provided the government Read More

Most Russians do not support the government’s move to impose a complete ban on tobacco smoking in public places and believe its emphasis should be on helping smokers quit, according to an RT TV/Read More

Tobacco prices at the auction sales in the Indian state of Karnataka have hit a high of Rs152 per kg, according to a story in the latest issue of the BBM Bommidala Group newsletter. By Read More

Two new research projects are to look at how to address ‘the problem of menthol use in Minnesota’. According to a PRNewswire story, the ClearWay Minnesota (CWM) board of directors has approved two new research Read More

Japan Tobacco Inc’s domestic cigarette sales volume during December, at 10.3 billion, was down by 4.5 per cent on its December 2011 volume, 10.8 billion, which itself was increased by 10.4 per cent on that of December 2010, according to Read More