Category :News This Week

Philip Morris International’s board of directors today declared a regular quarterly dividend of $1.00 per common share, payable on April 10 to shareholders of record as of March 26. The ex-dividend date is March 24. Meanwhile, PMI announced Read More

The state health department of Maharashtra, India, is considering a proposal that would require anyone caught using or spitting smokeless tobacco products in public places to work as a government sweeper for a day, reports Read More

Greece could ‘lose’ more than €1 billion a year in tax revenue to the sale of illicit cigarettes by 2019, according to a story in the International Business Times citing Euromonitor figures. Illicit cigarettes were said to Read More

Without disclosing the names of the companies, the government of Malawi said it had licensed three leaf dealers from China, Egypt and South Africa to participate in the 2015 marketing season that started on March 4, according Read More

Zimbabwe’s flue-cured tobacco growers sold 775,997 kg of leaf at an average price of US$1.55 per kg during the first three days of the marketing season that opened on March 4, according to a Newsday Zimbabwe Read More

A legal analysis has found that the UK’s proposed standardized tobacco packaging legislation is compatible with European law, according to a story posted on the website of Cancer Research Campaign. Professor Alberto Alemanno, co-author Read More

South Korea’s KT&G said yesterday that it had become the first company anywhere to introduce a 100 mm super-slim cigarette that includes cigar leaf, according to a story in the Korea JoongAng Daily. Read More

Iggesund Paperboard has expressed delight at what it sees as ‘almost an explosion of digitally printed folding cartons’. “For a company like ours which offers stiff paperboard of the highest quality this is a terrific Read More

A plan by the Namibian government to lease 10,000 ha of land to a Chinese company to grow tobacco has run into opposition, according to a story by Tuyeimo Haidula for The Namibian. Namibia Oriental Tobacco, Read More