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All Tobacco articles – Page 34
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Tax cuts will not reduce smuggling
from Amanda Sandford, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)suppliers must blaze a new csr trailfrom Nicky Amos, CSR director, Corporate CultureSir; Audrey Wales of the tobacco-front group Retailers against...
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Jersey Royals hit by weather
Growers on Jersey said this week that the start of the Jersey Royals potato season would be delayed by 10 days after severe winter weather conditions caused widespread damage to crops.Retailers should be prepared for lighter supplies than...
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Richmond Ice Cream adds Majer to marketing team
Ice cream manufacturer Richmond Ice Cream has recruited Amanda Majer onto its marketing team as customer marketing manager.Majer will be responsible for managing the firm’s own-label business with the major multiples as well as...
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Silk Cut maker plans South Africa push
Cigarette manufacturer Gallaher, is planning to expand into South Africa to grab a greater share of a market where 26 billion cigarettes are sold each year. The maker of Silk Cut has said it has nearly completed the acquisition of a factory...
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Royals aim to see off rivals
New potato favourite the Jersey Royal will celebrate its 125th anniversary this year with a £1.2m marketing campaign that includes TV advertising.The ads will focus on ‘Beautiful Jersey and the Grower’ and will feature one of the island’s...
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Cigarette prices set to rise
Gallaher and Imperial Tobacco are to raise the price of their cigarettes this month in order to compete with a shrinking market. Gallaher cigarettes, which include Mayfair and Benson & Hedges brands, will increase about 3p to 8p per packets,...
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Skinny Cow ice cream range expands in UK
Richmond Ice Cream is increasing its Skinny Cow range with the launch of super premium half litre pots and multipack cones in January 2005.Since introducing the brand exclusively in Asda in January 2004, The Skinny Cow has become the fastest...
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Festive salmon sales a-leaping
Suppliers are hailing brisk demand for salmon, especially premium lines, as the Christmas period approaches.Sales are particularly strong for smaller gutted fish used for smoking and for the fresh portion market.Allan Miller, sales...
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Backs into it
Supplier of cooked bacon products TMI Foods has appointed Alan Peterson as production director and Nigel Richmond as sales director.Peterson was previously a general manager at Roach Foods. Richmond joins from his position as business...
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Styx pocket size Combi
Swedish Match is stepping up activity behind its new Styx smoking accessory brand with a Combi pack.Claimed to be a market first, the combination of 50 papers and filters in one pocket-size, flip-top pack follows research among the brand’s...
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Owner of Silk Cut reports £200m profit
Gallaher Group, the maker of Benson & Hedges and Silk Cut cigarettes has reported a 24.1% increase in interim pre-tax profit to £200m due to improvements in cash flow and growing its share in key markets.The total turnover for the six months...
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New breed of Royals on the way
Jersey’s new potato growers are watching developments in Scotland after details emerged of a new branding exercise by Albert Bartlett & Sons, one of Scotland’s best known packers and distributors.Three new regional potato brands were...
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The Saturday Essay
>>Tim Lord, chief executive of the tobacco manufacturers association, argues against a smoking banAbout 30% of people over the age of 16 are regular smokers, mostly of cigarettes. Some would have us believe that the 70% who are ...
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Nicorette makes a mint
Pfizer is to throw a multi-million pound advertising blitz behind its first new Nicorette product for four years.The pharmaceuticals giant plans to make up for its tardiness in launching a mint-flavoured stop smoking gum by welcoming its new...
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Nicorette makes a mint
Pfizer is to throw a multi-million pound advertising blitz behind its first new Nicorette product for four years.The pharmaceuticals giant plans to make up for its tardiness in launching a mint-flavoured stop smoking gum by welcoming its new...
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Tobacco giants fuming
Irish health minister Michael Martin, architect of the smoking ban in the Republic’s pubs, is now taking on the cigarette companies with similar curbs on instore tobacco promotion.The minister is promising “a robust defence” of the measures,...
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Imperial Tobacco profits from Reemtsma
Imperial Tobacco, the maker of Lambert & Butler and Richmond cigarettes said interim profit had been boosted by its acquisition last year of German cigarette group Reemtsma.For the six months ended March 31, Imperial posted profit before...
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Dark market launch
Silk Cut Slims will be the first new cigarette to be launched since the ban on tobacco advertising.Manufacturer Gallaher is throwing the super-thin smokes into the market this month and aims to replace the usual poster and press advertising mix...
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Gallaher tests post-ban market
Gallaher will be the first major tobacco manufacturer to launch a new cigarette brand since last year’s ban on advertising.The tobacco giant is introducing Silk Cut Slims into the market later this month and aims to replace the usual poster and...
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Gallaher rings in board change
Gallaher, the makers of Silk Cut and Benson & Hedges cigarettes, has appointed Ronnie Bell as a non-executive director with effect from March 8. Bell has 30 years executive experience with Kraft Foods. He retired from his position as...