Tobacco growers in the West Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia say that low demand and declining prices for flue-cured are threatening their livelihoods, according to a story in The Jakarta Post. The farmers, who are Read More
Japan’s 2013 leaf tobacco crop will be grown on 9,245 ha, down by 134 ha or 1.4 per cent on that of this year. The flue-cured production area will be 5,926 ha, down by 51 ha or 0.8 per cent; the Read More
Tobacco smoking is expected to be banned in all restaurants and other public facilities in Seoul by 2020 as the city seeks to make the metropolis ‘smoke-free’, according to a story in The Korea Times. Seoulis Read More
Reynolds American Inc. says that the Reynolds American Foundation will donate $140,000 to the American Red Cross to help provide relief to victims of Hurricane Sandy, which hit the east coast of theUS at the end Read More
The international (excluding China) tobacco industry cigarette volume forecast through 2015 ranges from stable to a continued modest annual decline of up to 1.3 per cent, according to Philip Morris International’s chairman and CEO, Louis Camilleri. Read More
EU health commissioner-designate Dr. Tonio Borg, has said that his top priority as health commissioner would be to forward a revised version of the EU’s tobacco products directive for inter-service consultation in January 2013, according Read More
Bulgaria’s National Association of Tobacco Growers has threatened to declare a ‘zero year’ if buying companies don’t increase tobacco prices, according to a Novinite story relayed by the TMA. A zero year is Read More
The Dominican Republic has requested the establishment of a panel under the dispute settlement procedures of the World Trade Organization to consider a challenge toAustralia’s plain packaging measures for tobacco products, according to a Read More
Duty-free tobacco sales were given a reprieve yesterday with the adoption of an international illicit trade protocol that did not include a ban on such sales, according to a story by Nicole Mezzasalma for DFNI. Read More
Lorillard said yesterday that its board of directors had declared a three-for-one split of Lorillard common stock. The stock split, it added, would be effected through a 200 per cent stock dividend. “Since becoming an independent Read More