Category :News This Week

Alliance One International’s CEO and president, Pieter Sikkel, said on Monday that the company’s fiscal year 2015 volume and sales were impacted by global oversupply as a result of customers modifying their inventory positions Read More

Flue-cured tobacco growers operating in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh are urging the union government to address immediately their concerns about a steep fall in sales this year, according to a story in the Read More

The smokers’ lobby group, Forest, is urging the UK government to reject the ‘comprehensive package’ of anti-smoking measures published today by the NGO Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). Forest’s director, Simon Clark, said Read More

The Altria Group is due to host a webcast of its Investor Day in New York, N.Y, on June 23. The presentation, which will be in listen-only mode, will begin about 09:00 Eastern Time and end Read More

Reynolds American (RAI) is expected to complete its acquisition of Lorillard on Friday. At the same time, Imperial Tobacco’s ITG Brands will acquire from RAI and Lorillard operating companies the KOOL, Salem, Winston and Read More

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said yesterday that the state’s smoking rate fell last year to a historic low of 7.3 percent among high school students and 14.5 percent among adults, according to a story by Read More

C.Gars Auctions is due to hold its summer auction sale at The Bulgari Hotel in Knightsbridge, London, from 14.00 on June15. A press note from C.Gars said that the June auction would be the 15Read More

In an industrial workshop in Strömsbruk, northern Sweden, multimedia artist Nils Olof Hedenskog is creating an installation that it is hoped will attract interest from art institutions around the world. The raw material he Read More

A project under which Egypt’s Eastern Tobacco Company is partnering with Malawi’s Auction Holdings Limited (AHL) to set up in Malawi a $20 million cigarette manufacturing plant is due to be completed within 18 months, Read More

The EU Commission has said it does not believe that current court cases brought against the new Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) pose obstacles to the directive’s implementation. The Commission was responding to a question Read More