Category :News This Week

Imperial Tobacco’s Spanish employees have collected more than 4,500 kg of food to help alleviate hunger amongst the poor. The Altadis Foundation made an appeal for contributions for a third successive year to coincide with Read More

Lorillard’s president and CEO, Murray S. Kessler, and CFO, David H. Taylor, are due to participate in the Morgan Stanley Global Consumer & Retail Conference inNew York,NY, from 14.10 hours to 14.45 hours Eastern Time Read More

Universal Corporation’s net income for the first half of fiscal year 2013, which ended on September 30, was $71.1 million, or $2.50 per diluted share: significantly higher than its net income during the first half of last year, $7.8 Read More

Alliance One International has reported net income for the second quarter ended September 30 at $18.4 million, or $0.21 per basic share, which compares with a net loss of $3.7 million, or $0.04 per basic share during the second quarter Read More

Brazil recorded a 50 per cent decrease in smoking prevalence between 1989 and 2010, according to the findings of a new study published in PLOS Medicine. The study was conducted by researchers fromGeorgetownLombardiComprehensiveCancerCenterand the Brazilian National Cancer Institute. Read More

Anti-tobacco campaigners in Thailand have urged the government to speed up the implementation of tougher tobacco regulations, according to a story in the Bangkok Post. In April, the government added elements of the World Health Read More

Vintage, rare and mature cigars worth an estimated £250,000 are expected to be sold during C.Gars Ltd’s seventh auction at Boisdale CanaryWharf, London, on November 26. In announcing the auction, which will include also cigar-related Read More

Author and speaker Nick ‘Gunny Pop’ Popaditch – ‘The Cigar Marine’ – is launching a line of cigars with a portion of the proceeds going to support the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund and honor his fellow Read More

The Altria Group is due to host a webcast of its business presentation at the annual Morgan Stanley Global Consumer & Retail Conference inNew York Citystarting about 09.10 hours Eastern Time on November 13. The webcast, which Read More

Philip Morris International is due to host a live audio webcast at www.pmi.com of a presentation by, and a question-and-answer session with, chairman and CEO, Louis Camilleri, at the Morgan Stanley Global Consumer &Read More