All Tobacco articles – Page 30
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NewsPub gloom over duty hike as VAT cut sets retailers scrambling
As retailers rush to adjust prices following the pre-Budget reduction in VAT, pub operators have reacted with dismay to a simultaneous duty hike on alcohol.
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Silk Cut menthol launched
Tobacco giant Gallaher has responded to the growing trend for Menthol cigarettes by launching a Silk Cut variant. Gallaher's head of communications Jeremy Blackburn claimed menthol was one of the fastest-rising trends in tobacco and now...
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Liquid Smoking: one way to beat the ban
A soft drink that claims to provide the same ‘stress relief’ as a cigarette is targeting the UK to cash in on the smoking ban. Liquid Smoking, introduced in the Netherlands earlier this year, contains an African herbal extract that provides “a...
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Super-slim, elegant Silk Cut for women
Gallaher is launching a range of super-slim cigarettes under its Silk Cut brand packaged in “perfume-shaped” boxes to appeal to the female market. Silk Cut Superslims is positioned as a premium cigarette that rivals Vogue Superslims from BAT. The...
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Booker stands out as finance director
Andrew Booker is to replace Jez Maiden as Northern Foods’ group finance director next month. Booker joins Northern after a 19-year career with tobacco producer Gallaher Group, the company behind Silk Cut and Benson & Hedges, where his most recent...
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Tobacco display ban call comes under fire from industry
The tobacco industry has slammed an Action on Smoking and Health report endorsing bans on tobacco displays and branding and reiterated its warning that display bans in shops would boost illegal trade. Published a week after graphic warnings...
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Display ban won’t cut smoker levels says ACS
The expected benefits of the government’s proposed tobacco display ban have been grossly exaggerated, the Association of Convenience Stores is claiming. The government has set out health benefits worth £1.1bn based on reduced smoking prevalence...
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What the papers said
?Almost a quarter of a million smokers kicked the habit in the months before and after the introduction of the smoking ban last July, the Daily Mirror reported. The figure represents a 22% increase on the equivalent period in the...
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Rain and smoking ban cut Costco profits 24%
Bad weather, the smoking ban and cost pressures led to a 24.2% fall in pre-tax profit at Costco Wholesale UK, according to the latest accounts. Full-year pre-tax profit fell from £22.3m to £16.9m in the year to 2 September, 2007, on...
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Growers save Jersey Royals from flooding
Growers of Jersey Royal potatoes have been in a race against time to salvage the remainder of this season's crop following heavy rainfall on the island. Producers have worked around the clock over the past week to remove Jersey Royals...
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spotlight - Dan Bennett
It is the International Year of the Potato and The Jersey Royal Company's new potatoes have had an earlier than usual start. Commercial manager Dan Bennett explains the life of the Jersey Royal Our first indoor Jersey Royals were the earliest they...
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Leaf UK goes, handing sales and marketing to Bendicks
The UK subsidiary of Leaf International, which makes Chewits, is closing barely two years after production was moved to Slovakia.Bendicks of Mayfair will take on the UK marketing, sales and distribution of the Chewits brand from...
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The war on smoking: is this a step too far?
First it was an advertising blackout. Then smoking in public places was banned and the legal age to buy tobacco was raised from 16 to 18. And from October 2008, graphic health warnings featuring explicit and disturbing images of cancerous lungs...
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'Dawn will stub us out'
Government proposals to force cigarettes under the counter will have little effect on underage smoking and force retailers out of business.That was the message emerging from manufacturers, retailers and wholesalers. Legal team and...
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What the papers said - 29th March 2008
Banning cigarette displays in shops to discourage people from smoking could backfire by glamourising tobacco among the young, the Daily Mail said. The Federation of Small Businesses described the proposals to force tobacco under the counter and...
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We ask... How has the smoking ban affected sales?
Reviewing margins Cash & carry operator ? After the ban came in, the initial falls were as predicted. However, suppliers had also predicted a relatively quick recovery, which has not yet materialised. As such, we have asked...
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How has the smoking ban affected sales? - Reader Survey
Source: Email poll of wholesalers Wholesalers have been left frustrated by a lack of support from big tobacco suppliers following a larger-than-predicted fall in sales after the introduction of the ban on smoking in public places across the UK. Two...
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Reader survey - tobacco sales
Wholesalers have been left frustrated by a lack of support from big tobacco suppliers following a larger-than-predicted fall in sales after the introduction of the ban on smoking in public places across the UK.Two thirds of the wholesalers...
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Suppliers expect levelling out after ban hits sales of tobacco
The decline in sales of tobacco following last summer's ban on smoking in public paces is accelerating, new figures show.In the 12 months to the end of January 2008, the number of sticks sold fell almost 4% to 47 billion, according...
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Flooding halts orders at Swaledale factory
The Swaledale Cheese Company has been hit by flood damage leaving it unable to fulfil orders with premium retailers such as Harrods and Waitrose.Operations at the specialist cheese supplier's Richmond factory in Surrey have been stopped,...