Independents hold their own in an increasingly concentrated market.Read More
Tanzania’s transformation into a prominent leaf tobacco supplier has been a process rather than an event—and it continues today.Read More
U.S. Tobacco Cooperative (USTC) was left out of Tobacco Reporter’s July 2016 Who’s who edition (“From the source,” page 50), which focused on leaf merchants. As a key player in the leaf tobacco industry, USTC should of course have been included. Tobacco Reporter regrets the omission. Below is the profile that should have run in...Read More
Flavor styles are getting scarce. Read More
Chief technical director for Jamaica’s Ministry of Agriculture, Dermon Spence, told the Jamaica Observer that preliminary figures for 2014 show a 43 percent decrease in tobacco cultivation when compared to 2011, the most recent year, prior to 2014, for which a survey was done. “The last survey we did was in 2011 and it showed that the...Read More
This story, provided by Iggesund Paperboard, has only a paper-thin connection to tobacco, but it provides TR with an opportunity to show support for that great tobacco-producing nation, Brazil, as it kicks off the World Cup finals today. Apparently, the Taittinger champagne house is supplying the official champagne for this year’s World Cup. The company...Read More
Universal Corp. reported net income of $106.6 million for the nine months ending Dec. 31, up from $66.3 million for the same period of the previous fiscal year. Revenues increased by 1 percent to $1.8 billion for the first nine months of fiscal year 2013, mostly as a result of higher volumes from carryover crop...Read More