The Annual Golden Leaf Awards 2024
Sponsored exclusively by BMJ, the Golden Leaf Awards program recognizes outstanding contributions by companies associated with the global tobacco and nicotine industries. We offer multiple opportunities for industry professionals to highlight their accomplishments throughout the year.
Don’t miss this golden opportunity to recognize your company’s or another company’s outstanding performance.
The deadline for submissions is August 1, 2024.
The Golden Leaf Awards Over the Years
Scientists have raised concerns that evidence supporting harm reduction and flexible regulation is being overlooked.
Innovation in the nicotine sector is increasingly being shaped by regulation, consumer needs and the ability of companies to test, fail, and iterate.
Emerging nicotine companies said regulatory barriers, consumer education and the infrastructure surrounding products are increasingly shaping innovation.
Innovation in tobacco and nicotine products is advancing rapidly, but companies must account for regulation, product standards and consumer needs alongside science and technology.
The growing illicit nicotine market is creating risks for brand protection, consumer safety and tobacco harm reduction.
Dessart said climate policy has embraced collaboration with industry, while a restrictive interpretation of FCTC has ignored tobacco-industry stakeholders.
The panel examined how the industry is responding to environmental pressures through sustainability strategies, regulation, and government cooperation.
Koplow served at FDA since 2011, including as senior counselor to the commissioner, and most recently serving as CTP’s acting director.
The panel focused on cross-border challenges involving taxes, tariffs, regulation, movement of goods and services, and labor.
The panel emphasized that regulation—not supply disruptions alone—will remain one of the biggest risks facing suppliers as new nicotine products and requirements continue to emerge.
“It’s a manifesto and a mandate. A manifesto to change and a mandate for action,” said BAT’s Kingsley Wheaton.
The forum’s mission of “honest dialogue” and finding common ground in evidence “has never been more important or critical to people who smoke.
The auditors estimate the illicit tobacco trade costs the EU and its member states about €13 billion in lost revenue annually.
The acquisition more than doubles Imperial’s existing modern oral market share in Sweden, where the company operates through Skruf AB.
CEO Jacek Olczak addressed investors today (Sept. 8) at the 2026 Barclays Global Consumer Conference in Boston.