All Tobacco articles – Page 35

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    Richmond’s new focus

    2003-12-13T00:00:00Z

    Richmond Ice Cream has recruited Ruth Levison to the newly-created post of customer development co-ordinator to work with supermarket customers on new own label products.She has seven years’ experience in the food industry and was previously a...

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    Ice cream rivals gear up for 2004

    2003-12-06T00:00:00Z

    Major ice cream players are gearing up for their annual battle over freezer space with new names set to join familiar ones next year.Richmond has scooped the European licence for quirky US luxury low fat ice cream brand Skinny Cow. The brand...

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    Fab profits at Richmond Foods

    2003-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Ice cream manufacturer Richmond Foods posted a 28% jump in full year pre-tax profit on the back of increased market share in the UK.For the year to September pre-tax profit rose to £10.5m from £8.2m, as sales rose 9% to £127.2m....

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    £3.9m ice cream buy

    2003-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Richmond Foods has scooped up Sheffield-based ice cream maker Oldfields in a £3.95m deal. Oldfields, which supplies own label to customers including Iceland, made a pre-tax profit of £300,000 on sales of £5.4m in the year to December 2002....

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    Richmond Foods makes a scoop for Oldfield

    2003-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Ice cream maker Richmond Foods has bought Oldfield Ice Cream for £3.95m.Oldfields specializes in making ice cream in two litre tubs and for the catering trade.Chief executive of Richmond Foods, James Lambert, said the deal was part...

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    Imperial Tobacco in line

    2003-09-25T00:00:00Z

    Imperial Tobacco said trading for the year was in line with the group’s expectations.The maker of Embassy, Lambert & Butler and Superkings, said the group’s UK market share was now 44.1%.Chief executive Gareth Davis said: “Overall,...

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    Imperial cards face scrutiny

    2003-09-20T00:00:00Z

    An investigation has begun into a cigarette promotion being run by Imperial Tobacco after a complaint by the DoH it is in breach of the tobacco ad ban.The promotion for Superkings features cigarette cards depicting former ad campaigns which...

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    BAT and Philip Morris light up in Serbia

    2003-08-05T00:00:00Z

    British American Tobacco, the maker of Dunhill, Kent, Lucky Strike cigarettes has bought a 68% share in Serbian cigarette maker Duvanska Industrija Vranje for 87m euros.Separately, Philip Morris the maker of Marlboro cigarettes has agreed to...

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    The Saturday Essay

    2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

    >>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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    Lambert licks it into shape

    2003-05-31T00:00:00Z

    Taking out the competition has set Richmond Foods on course to become the biggest ice cream player in the UK. Elaine Watson meets the bossTwenty years ago James Lambert was selling cattle semen. Today he is selling ice cream ­ lots of it. But...

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    A ROUND-UP OF THE HOTTEST RECENT ACTION IN FMCG

    2003-05-10T00:00:00Z

    no smoking wheels n Smoking cessation aid NiQuitin CQ is moving into tobacco-dominated territory with a deal to sponsor the BMW Williams F1 motor-racing team. n Brand owner GlaxoSmithKline has signed a year-long deal, believed to be...

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    Sir; The Wholesale Confectionery & Tobacco Alliance

    2003-04-12T00:00:00Z

    As chief executive of WCTA I am angered that once again small businesses involved in the tobacco trade are being penalised by this high tax government. Tax increases have been proved to be a totally ineffective way of reducing smoking levels....

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    Gallaher strides ahead in low price cigarette sector

    2003-03-08T00:00:00Z

    Tobacco giant Gallaher Group boosted its lead in the UK for low-priced cigarettes in 2002, according to its full-year results. Brands such as Mayfair, Dorchester and Sterling sold significantly more than in 2001, helping the group push volume...

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    Mayfair rolling into new format

    2003-03-01T00:00:00Z

    Gallaher is bidding to take a bigger slice of the hand rolling tobacco (HRT) market by putting its value-for-money Mayfair cigarette brand into the format. The tobacco giant, which already commands a major share of the HRT market with its Amber...

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    Manufacturers wait for DoH guidelines

    2003-02-15T00:00:00Z

    Tobacco manufacturers this week put a brave face on the loss of consumer advertsing as a marketing vehicle.As Gallaher bowed out with its eyecatching The fat lady sings...' billboard and newspaper farewell tribute to Silk Cut advertising...

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    Silver lining to twilight of tobacco ads

    2003-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Simon Mowbray Tobacco giant Gallaher is to use the last week of mainstream tobacco advertising to push a new sibling brand for Benson & Hedges. B&H Silver officially launches at the end of this month, positioned as a "value for money"...

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    Customs search Reemtsma offices

    2003-01-14T00:00:00Z

    Imperial Tobacco has confirmed that German customs officials have been searching the offices of its Reemtsma subsidiary in Hamburg.The UK-based maker of Embassy and Lambert & Butler said that it understood that the officers were...

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    Patching up the damage

    2002-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Four million people will attempt to quit smoking on January 1 and many will turn to replacement therapy According to Quit, the charity founded to help smokers give up their habit, more and more people have turned to nicotine replacement products...

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    The UK legislation banning the advertising and promotion of

    2002-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Our own experience of dark markets in other countries is extensive. In France, for example, we launched John Player Special American and the brand's market share has grown in the past three years by 20%, driven by developed, focused point of sale...

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    Jewell and Bischoff will retire from BAT

    2002-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Two top executives at British American Tobacco are to retire. They are operations director John Jewell and director of smoking tobacco and cigars Chris Bischoff. Bischoff will step down from his post at the end of February. His responsibilities...