Category :News This Week

The Altria Group’s board of directors declared yesterday a regular quarterly dividend of $0.44 per common share, payable on January 10 to shareholders of record as of December 26. The ex-dividend date is December 21.Read More

The board of directors of Philip Morris International yesterday declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.85 per common share, payable on January 11, to stockholders of record as of December 27. The ex-dividend date is December 24.Read More

Voting 10-9 with no abstentions, senators in the Philippines yesterday ratified a measure restructuring the taxes on tobacco and alcohol products, according to a story in The Philippine Star. The House later followed with its Read More

A company based in Queensland, Australia, is starting to offer stickers for wrapping around cigarette packs, according to a story in Marketing magazine quoting the Gold Coast Bulletin. Box Wrap, a sticker manufacturing company, created Read More

An opportunist capitalising on Australia’s ‘plain-packaging’ laws has stolen $30,000 worth of cigarettes from 14 supermarkets across South Australia and Victoria, according to a News Interactive Network story. On each occasion, the man has posed as Read More

Flue-cured tobacco prices at the continuing auctions in the Indian state of Karnataka have surged by about 10 per cent across all platforms, according to a story in the latest issue of the BBM Bommidala Group Read More

Uttar Pradesh cigarette vendors and the Uttar Pradesh Cigarette Traders’ Association are urging the state government to cut its 50 per cent rate of VAT on cigarettes to bring it in line with neighboring states. The Read More

Bulgaria’s Prime Minister, Boiko Borissov, has hinted that he will not oppose a move under consideration by his ruling party MPs that would see the country’s enclosed-public-places tobacco smoking ban eased to allow Read More

It will become illegal to be in possession of contraband cigarettes under a proposal currently under consideration by the government of Malaysia, according to a story in The Star. The Health Minister, Datuk Seri Liow Read More

Five men who were involved in smuggling tobacco into the UK have been jailed for terms of between 18 months and four years and nine months, according to a story by Jane Hunt for the East Read More