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Metcash, a prominent retail conglomerate, reported a notable 5.1% increase in group sales (excluding tobacco) for the 18 weeks leading up to August 31st this year. This growth coincides with the company’s plans to launch its first-ever cross-pillar marketing…
The circular economy model helps production and business activities develop sustainably and creates added value in the community, said a representative of British American Tobacco (BAT). Vietnam has been integrating more and more deeply into the global…
Cigarette butts with filters are the most commonly littered item worldwide, with a staggering 4.5 trillion of them tossed into the environment each year. This is a huge problem; many end up on beaches and in the ocean, and the tar from burnt tobacco in the…
In its passion and drive to provide better choices to people who smoke, Philip Morris International Inc. (“PMI”), the global leader in smoke-free innovation and science, has launched the next generation of IQOS. The new IQOS 3 and IQOS 3 MULTI integrate…
Philip Morris Korea Inc. said Thursday that it will begin selling its tobacco sticks, called Heets, produced at its factory in South Korea later this month. To this point, Philip Morris Korea imported Heets for sale in South Korea. Philip Morris Korea has…
Vietnam should raise its tobacco tax in order to deter and reduce people smoking, the World Health Organisation has advised. WHO head Kidong Park said at a recent meeting held by the Health Ministry in Hanoi that Vietnam was among the top 15 countries in the…
Thailand Tobacco Monopoly (TTM) says it is expected to suffer it’s first time loss in history of a tremendous amount of 5 billion baht this year from the government’s recent excise tax increase. TTM managing director Daonoi Suthinipaphan said the expected…
The overhaul in the excises, implemented in September, had put Thailand Tobacco at disadvantage, as its tax burden had risen disproportionately to that of the foreign producers, Daonoi Suttiniphapunt, Tobacco Monopoly’s managing director, told a press…
Myanmar is experiencing tremendous economic growth. With a young, growing population and a liberalised economy, it has been slated as one of 20 ‘markets of the future’ that will offer the most opportunities for consumer goods companies. Tobacco has been…
The Indonesian government and tobacco farmers are waiting anxiously for the result of a dispute settlement against Australia’s plain tobacco packaging policy that they expect will come out in 2017, more than three years after the government submitted a…
The government of Indonesia has raised the excise tax tariffs on tobacco. The Finance Ministers Regulation, No.147/PMK.010/2016, was issued in this respect. In the new policy, the highest tobacco excise duty hike of 13.46 percent was for machine-made white…
The Director General of Customs and Excise for the Finance Ministry, Heru Pambudi said the number of cigarette factories in Indonesia continues to fall significantly over the past years. There were 4,669 cigarette factories in 2007, which had fell to 754 by…
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has recently issued regulations regarding retail of tobacco products in China. The new regulations stipulate that foreign invested commercial enterprises or individual business households are not…
International non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday that child labour is used in tobacco plantations in Indonesia, whose harvest supplies local and foreign tobacco companies. Children, some of whom are just eight years old,…
Several media organisations in South Korea and beyond have reported criticism from the 100,000-strong ‘I Love Smoking’ online pro-smoking group towards ‘alleged’ plans by the South Korean government to halt sales of duty free cigarettes at Jeju International…
Philip Morris Singapore said the forthcoming ban on the display of tobacco products at retail outlets will have no impact on the smoking rate in Singapore. The comment by the leading tobacco company in Singapore was in response to the announcement by the…
