Category :News This Week

South   Africais considering imposing plain packaging on tobacco products manufacturers, according to a Times Live story. “We are keen to test this and if there is… support for it, we will go this route,” the Read More

The Imperial Tobacco Group said today that its overall financial position and operational performance for the financial year to September 30 was in line with the board’s expectations. ‘We are delivering strong gains from our Read More

A delegation fromChinais inRichmond,Virginia, on a fact-finding mission to lay the groundwork for future efforts against tobacco-products counterfeiting, according to localUSreports relayed by the TMA and Tobacco China Online. The Chinese officials, including representatives Read More

The names of bidders for a 50.4 per cent stake in the Greek cigarette maker Sekap SA are due to be announced tomorrow, according to a Bloomberg News story quoting a Kathimerini newspaper report and relayed Read More

Only five per cent of Irish smokers wrongly believes that a light color on a pack of cigarettes signals that the contents are less hazardous than are those in darker-colored packs. The same proportion of Read More

Malawi’s Tobacco Control Commission (TCC) has said that about 80 per cent of tobacco growers will be moving to contract farming for the 2012-13 production season. TCC’s CEO, Bruce Munthali, apparently told The Daily Read More

Los Angeles-based Safecig and the Seminole Tribe of Florida Inc. yesterday launched Seminole Unconquered, which is said to be the first private label brand of electronic cigarette and cigar products. The products will be sold Read More

Filtrona Filter Products has appointed Patrick Meredith (pictured) as its innovations director, based inSingapore. Prior to his new role, Meredith was Filtrona Filters’ director of program management, having originally joined the company in 2003 as engineering Read More

Imperial Tobacco has won recognition for its management of social, environmental and economic issues, and gained top marks for its efforts to combat illicit trade. Sustainability Asset Management (SAM), an independent organisation providing guidance for Read More