Farmers in Bangladesh grow tobacco because it yields the highest return of any crop and provides the grower with a large sum of money in one payment, according to a Dhaka Daily Star story quoting Read More
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October 15, 2012
A French court has ordered British American Tobacco France and its former president, Ricardo De Almeida Orlander, to pay fines of respectively €50,000 and €5,000 for the illegal advertising of tobacco and tobacco products, according to a Read More
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October 15, 2012
Lorillard is due to host a conference call at www.lorillard.com beginning at 09.00 hours Eastern Time on October 24 following the release of its third quarter results. The conference call, for analysts and investors, will Read More
Staff Writer
October 12, 2012
The International Hologram Manufacturers Association (IHMA) has welcomed the first international standard to provide guidance for businesses on protecting their products from counterfeits. ISO 12931 covers “Performance criteria for authentication solutions used to combat counterfeiting Read More
Staff Writer
October 12, 2012
The share of sales of illicit cigarettes inBulgariawas estimated to have fallen to 15.3 per cent of the market by the middle of this year, according to a Novinite story quoting a survey conducted by an Read More
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October 12, 2012
Japan Tobacco Inc’s domestic cigarette sales volume during September, at 9.5 billion, was down by 2.8 per cent on its September 2011 volume, 9.8 billion, which itself was down by 60.4 per cent on that of September 2010, according to Read More
Staff Writer
October 12, 2012
A Changsha ZJ116 ‘ultra-high-speed’ cigarette maker has successfully completed its user acceptance tests at the Changsha Cigarette Factory, according to a Changde Tobacco Machinery (CTM) story relayed by Tobacco China Online. The maker, which is Read More
Staff Writer
October 12, 2012
Japan Tobacco Inc. has completed its pre-purchase radioactive material testing of this year’s Japanese domestic leaf tobacco. In the latest round of tests, the company looked at Burley and native tobacco in a total Read More
Staff Writer
October 12, 2012
The tobacco for this year’s limited-edition Kardus snus has been harvested from around the small village of Cincho in western Spain. As always, said Swedish Match (SM) in a note posted on its website, Read More
Staff Writer
October 12, 2012
British American Tobacco has been commended by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) for its approach to the disclosure of climate change information. The company is one of 35 members of the FTSE 350 that feature in the Read More
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