Category :News This Week

Zimbabwe’s Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands and Agriculture has expressed concern over the low prices being offered at tobacco auction floors this season, according to a story in The Herald. It has urged stakeholders Read More

Reynolds American is poised to win US antitrust approval for its $25 billion purchase of Lorillard as early as next week, according to a story by David McLaughlin for Bloomberg News, quoting ‘a person familiar with Read More

The number of vapers in Britain has risen by 500,000 recently, according to a Press Association story citing figures from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). ASH was quoted as saying that there were now 2.6 million Read More

The number of smokers in Saudi Arabia is expected to climb from six million now to 10 million in 2020, according to a Saudi Gazette story quoting the Al-Riyadh daily and citing a recent World Health Organization Read More

A new study has challenged a previous suggestion that some electronic cigarettes could deliver levels of formaldehyde greater than those of traditional tobacco cigarettes. In January, a report published as a research letter in the Read More

Lebanon’s Finance Minister Ali Hasan Khalil on Tuesday inaugurated a $17-million tobacco factory that could help increase Regie Company revenues by $40 million a year, according to a story in The Daily Star. When the Read More

Iggesund Paperboard is expanding its distribution in the US by making its flagship product, Invercote, available coast to coast. ‘Increasing interest in Invercote’s unique properties from brand owners on the West Coast, and some Read More

At the Altria Group’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders yesterday, shareholders voted to defeat three stockholder proposals that had urged the company to take action on farm labor issues and tobacco use among the poor, Read More

Global leaf tobacco inventories are high and might ‘have the effect of extending the duration of the oversupply conditions’, according to George C. Freeman, III, chairman, president, and CEO of Universal Corporation. Commenting on Universal’Read More

Japan Tobacco Inc. says that its Cabin and Caster cigarettes are to be ‘integrated’ with its Winston brand as part of the company’s mid- to-long term strategy of making Winston the global No.1 brand. Read More