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Retailer Tobacco Training Sessions in September Hosted by FDA Followed by Workshop at NACS Show
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will host four more live retailer training sessions in September. The remaining sessions will be in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles. Topics up for discussion are:
Who is subject to the regulation
What products are [...]

Martin Orlowsky Retiring; Former UST CEO Murray Kessler Takes Over
Lorillard announced today that 11-year CEO Martin Orlowsky will be retiring, effective September 13, 2010. Mr. Orlowsky will be succeeded by former UST CEO Murray Kessler – who spent six months at Altria in 2009 assisting the company with the UST integration. Mr. Orlowsky will stay [...]

C-stores bear the brunt of tax hike, see 25%-35% drop in volume.
Interesting article related to recent tax increase in the State of NY.
What are your thoughts?
How can the situation at hand be corrected?
ALBANY, N.Y. — The first six weeks following a cigarette tax-rate increase in New York showed a plunge in sales at convenience stores [...]

When PMI made a firm bid to buy Protabaco in Colombia most, including myself, thought the deal would not be turned down by the Colombian Government. We were wrong.
Now PMI (PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL) is asking Colombian regulators to reconsider their plan to buy Protabaco but it is not at all clear if the government will [...]

Japan Tobacco Group (JT Group) approves Belgian Electronic Sorting Technologies’
(BEST) Foreign Matter Detection-system.
As the tobacco market is increasingly under pressure, facing rigorous regulations worldwide, leading
manufacturers are searching for the most efficient, premium quality control equipment. While the removal
of FM (Foreign Matter) or NTRM (Non Tobacco Related Materials) is a specific field of expertise, many
techniques and [...]

Before you know it this major Industry Trade show will be upon us and in a flash – gone.
The organizers are working hard to make it successful for all visitors.
Exhibitors can have reasonble expectation of not only a good quantity of visitors but a good level as well.
The Show will run concurrenlty with a topical [...]

Thousands of smokers are set to resume using cigarettes if the results of a recent survey are correct.

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