Tobacco International articles from August 1991

Tobacco International archives from August 1991

BAT announces major Southampton investment. (British-American Tobacco Company Ltd.)
August 15, 1991... SOUTHAMPTON-BAT announced a major investment in its long-established Millbrook Southampton site. In plans to be submitted to Southampton City Council shortly, BAT (UK & Export) is proposing to develop its Southampton site into one of the...

Shortage of cigarettes result in inflated prices. (Kuwait) (Brief Article)
August 15, 1991... HAWALLI-Kuwaitis have began a long struggle to recover from Iraq's occupation and the Gulf war. Once the richest nation in the world on a per capita basis, Kuwait faces what one government minister says may be a $200 billion plus, five-year...

New cigarette company begins operations. (Eastend Tobacco Co. in Pakistan) (Brief Article)
August 15, 1991... KARACHI-A new cigarette manufacturing company, Eastend Tobacco Company, of Karachi, will commence marketing its brands all over the country. In a press announcement issued in Karachi, the company said it is presently seeking distributors...

Cigarette import duty raised 17.6%. (Singapore) (Brief Article)
August 15, 1991... SINGAPORE-Finance Minister Richard Hu said that the government is raising the import duty on cigarettes by 17.6% to help deter smoking. The import duty on cigarettes will be raised by S$15 per kg to S$100, Hu told Parliament in his...

Rothmans buys a piece of Tabacalera. (Rothman's, Benson and Hedges Inc.; Tabacalera S.A.)(Spain) (Brief Article)
August 15, 1991... MADRID-The U.K. tobacco group Rothmans paid Pta 6.9bn ($61m) for 9.9% of Tabacalera, Spain's monopoly manufacturer and distributor of tobacco, according to The Financial Times. The acquisition is likely to stir rival international tobacco...

Smoking is costlier with increased cigarette prices. (United Arab Emirates) (Brief Article)
August 15, 1991... KARACHI-Cigarette prices are being increased in the UAE and retailers have begun charging 50 fils more per pack. A pack of cigarettes costing Dh 3.50 is now sold at Dh 4. Wholesale distributors brought the new rates into force in early...

BAT plans joint venture with Vinataba. (British-American Tobacco Company Ltd.)(United Arab Emirates) (Brief Article)
August 15, 1991... HO CHI MINH CITY-British-American Tobacco Company signed a Memorandum of Understanding last month to set up a joint venture with Vietnam's tobacco giant Vinataba, according to the Singapore Straits Times. While BAT may start with an...

Tobacco rival battle rages on. (British-American Tobacco Kenya Ltd. and Mastermind Tobacco Kenya Ltd.Kenya)
August 15, 1991... KAKAMEGA-The battle between BAT Kenya Limited and Mastermind Tobacco Kenya Ltd. (MTK), which had recently come out into open with a consequent public reprimand from the country's president, has been described in Kenya's business circles as...

U.S./European tobacco companies join forces. (Standard Commercial Corp. and Catemario Tabacchi S.p.A. form new company, Transcatab S.p.A.)(Italy) (Brief Article)
August 15, 1991... CASERTA-Standard Commercial Corporation of Wilson, N.C. (U.S.) and Catemario Tabacchi S.P.A. of Caserta, Italy became 50% shareholders in a new company incorporated in Caserta, Italy, as of July 1, according to an announcement made by both...

Tobacco production registers 5.3% decline. (Pakistan )
August 15, 1991... KARACHI-The final estimate of tobacco crop area for the year 1989-90 has been at 40,911 hectares (ha), as compared to 43,216 ha during the preceding year, showing a decrease of 5.3%, according to the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and...

Flue-cured and burley tobacco market report. (Zimbabwe)
August 15, 1991... HARARE-The flue-cured market continued to fall in all sections until the middle of June, but price levels were well above those of last season. At the end of the month, the prices started to rise, but neither grade prices nor the weekly...

Duty-free record sales for 1990. (Dubai International Airport's duty free shop post record sales)
August 15, 1991... Passengers arriving at Dubai International Airport's lavish duty free shopping complex could easily forget for a moment they're in the United Arab Emirates, or the war-wary Middle East for that matter. For one thing, there are no Arabs...

Proposals and woes of the cigarette industry. (cigarette smuggling in Pakistan results in tax loss for government)
August 15, 1991... The cigarette makers are reportedly sharply divided on their proposals to the Central Board of Revenue to reverse the slide in Central Excise Duty (CED) collection. At a time when the government is having great difficulty in bridging the...

Reorganizing the cigarette industry. (Egypt)
August 15, 1991... Studies and research are taking place within the Eastern Tobacco and Cigarette Company of Egypt to raise the relative efficiency and improve the company's economical situation, announced president of the company Engineer Mohamed Sadek. ...

Rossi speciality - everything but the tobacco itself. (Cartiera Rossi manufactures paper for the tobacco industry ) (company profile)
August 15, 1991... The Rossi family has been manufacturing paper products for the tobacco industry for more than 70 years The tobacco industry, in fact, now accounts for approximately 70% of their paper company's turnover. Such a long and increasingly...

Papermaker with a consistent aim. (Robert Fletcher Greenfield Ltd.) (company profile)
August 15, 1991... Like many companies in the United Kingdom which are able to trace their origins to the early part of the last century, paper manufacturer Robert Fletcher (Greenfield) Limited has had an interesting and at times quite eventful history. Richard...

New filters - new test methods. (Filtrona Co. uses gas chromatography to test performance of cigarette filters)
August 15, 1991... In recent years, there has been an increase in demand for filters containing a selective filtration medium for vapor phase and, as is well known, activated carbon is used very extensively for this purpose. Indeed, this type of filter is now...

Givaudan supplies the world with fragrances and flavors. (Givaudan Corp.) (Brief Article)
August 15, 1991... VERNIER, SWITZERLAND-Givaudan is a major worldwide producer of fragrances, flavors, aroma, and speciality chemicals. The company was founded in 1895 by Leon and Xavier Givaudan, and became a wholly owned subsidiary of F. Hoffmann-La Roche &...

Enso-Gutzeit investments for cigarette industry. (Enso-Gutzeit Oy buys new process control equipment)
August 15, 1991... TERVAKOSKI, FINLANDEnso-Gutzeit/Terakoski Mills in Finland is further upgrading their machinery for cigarette papers. PM 11, currently manufacturing base tipping paper and cigarette tissue with an annual capacity of 13,000 metric tons, had a...

Customs crack down on cigarette smuggling. (Pakistan) (Brief Article)
August 1, 1991... Karachi-following a sharp increase in cigarette smuggling, the Central Board of Revenue (CBR) has issued specific instructions to the Customs for taking special measures to check cigarette smuggling. The Customs authorities said they are...

Mercosur proposal threatens "contraband capital." (Southern Common Market to eliminate all customs, duties and trade restrictions among Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) (Brief Article)
August 1, 1991... CIUDAD DEL ESTE-For years, the Paraguayan border town of Puerto Presidente Stroessner had been an infamous smuggler's paradise, where visiting Brazilians could buy fake Rolex watches, adulterated Chanel perfumes, cut-rate MARLBOROS and, some...

Export permit for tobacco leaf eliminated. (Mexico) (Brief Article)
August 1, 1991... MEXICO CITY-As a result Tabamex's liquidation and a more orientated trade policy, the government of Mexico announced the elimination of the export permit requirement for unstemmed light and dark tobacco leaf. The announcement was published in...

Tobacco program in great shape, says farmers. (United States)
August 1, 1991... RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA-ALthough "no sale" receipts of fluecured tobacco were up in 1990, the farmer leader of the cooperative of flue-cured growers in the U.S. told his fellows at the end of May that the federal tobacco program is...

Dark fire-cured crop gets off to uneven start. (tobacco growers in Virginia off to an early season)(United States)
August 1, 1991... FARMVILLE, VIRGINA-Good weather in the plant-producing season and an opportune dry spell in late April and early May allowed dark fire-cured tobacco growers in Virginia to plant their crop unusually early this year. As a result, crop...

Fees for mandatory tobacco inspection raised. (U.S. Department of Agriculture increases fees)
August 1, 1991... WASHINGTON, D.C.-Effective July 11, the U.S. Department of Agriculture increased the fee for mandatory inspection of domestic tobacco sold at USDA-designated auction markets to 70cts per hundred pounds. Daniel D. Haley, administrator of...

Fighting for duty free. (abolition of border control and installation of an internal market in the European Community)(EC Internal Market Report)
August 1, 1991... As of January 1, 1993, there will be no more border controls between the EC member states. This will be one of the major achievements of the installation of the internal market. At that very date, the EC Commission intends to abolish the duty...

An ETS case & the sponsorship buyout: anti-smokers exploit judge's ETS case non-decision. (Australian federal court links environmental tobacco smoke with cancer and other respiratory ailments)(Australia Report: Issues)
August 1, 1991... Frightening news with international implications for the tobacco industry recently surfaced in Australia. News reports from "down under" claimed that a Federal Court there made a landmark ruling that passive smoking can cause lung cancer and...

Sponsorship: who will replace tobacco? (if tobacco sponsorship is removed from sporting events)(Australia Report: Issues)
August 1, 1991... In 1987, the state of Victoria passed the Victoria Tobacco Act, the first state to ass what has become known as a "sponsorship buyout." The Tobacco Act created the Victoria Health Promotion Fund (VHPF), funded by an extra 3% tax on...

The attack of the monster packs. (introduction of 50-cigarette pack)(Australia Report: Cigarettes)
August 1, 1991... In 1987, the 35-cigarette pack emerged and cigarette manufacturers thought this would be the limit. Four years later, the introduction of the jumbo 50-cigarette pack has the industry wondering: What lurks around the corner?" Would you be...

American blends in sad shape in Virginia market. (American cigarettes not selling in Virginia blend market) (Brief Article)
August 1, 1991... Philip Morris, traditionally known for American blends, is the number one manufacturer in this Virgina blend market. The company offers Virginia blends, with brands names unique to Australia. The company's only American blend is the dismally...

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. (government-imposed price increases and high cost taking its toll on Indonesia's cigarette and clove industry)(Indonesia Report: Kreteks & Cigarettes)
August 1, 1991... New government-imposed price increases and the high costs imposed by a newly-established clove monopoly have thrown the already-dynamic Indonesian cigarette business into a market share and liquidity free-fall. While smaller manufacturers and...

The first no-smoking country? (Philippines headed towards a no-smoking in public places country)(Philippines Report: Issues)
August 1, 1991... The Philippines appears to be headed towards a "no-smoking-in-public-places" country, as proponents of anti-smoking campaigns seem to be gaining more adherents. The efforts, spearheaded by civic and medical organization, hardly created...

1990 - tobacco trade record year. (Leaf Tobacco Exporters Association's fiftieth annual meeting reports good news about tobacco trade)(LTEA Report)
August 1, 1991... The Leaf Tobacco Exporters Association gathered in White Sulphur Springs West Virginia, May 28 to hold its annual meeting for the fiftieth time. Aside from a euphoria about entering the organization's second half century, the leaf dealers who...

Record cargo growth at Virginia port. (Port of Richmond reports increase in cargo and revenues)(Transport News)
August 1, 1991... RICHMOND,VIRGINIA-The Port of Richmond completed its fiscal year on June 30 with a new record of 467,293 tons. This is an increase of 5% over the previous year and continues the current trend of increasing cargo and revenues at this james...

Peter J. Ghiloni. (appointed senior vice president of sales and marketing at Helme Tobacco Co.)(People in the News) (Brief Article)
August 1, 1991... Peter J. Ghiloni assumes the position of senior vice president of sales and marketing. Ghiloni joined Helme in 1984 as vice president-marketing and was promoted to senior vice president in January.

Ronald L. Whitehead. (appointed president of Tobacco Technology Inc.)(People in the News) (Brief Article)
August 1, 1991... Ronald L. Whitehead has been appointed president of Tobacco Technology, Inc. Whitehead brings to TTI experience in all aspects of the tobacco industry, with specialization in foreign market development.