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All Tobacco articles – Page 34
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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...
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Richmond’s new focus
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
>>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
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
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
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....