JTI partners in scheme to recycle cigarette waste
Tobacco firm JTI is joining with a recycling specialist to provide people across the UK with a free way to recycle cigarette butts and...
Tobacco giant aims to help retailers through changes
Imperial continues with legal action but says ‘be prepared’
Imperial Tobacco is launching Partnering for Success, a project designed to give retailers information and guidance...
Morrisons to increase wages
Supermarket giant Morrisons plans to increase its hourly pay rate for store staff to £8.20 an hour from a previous minimum of £6.83.
The £8.20...
New look for tobacco pack
Tobacco company Philip Morris Limited has made over the packs in its Chesterfield range.
The new design for Chesterfield Red, Blue and Menthol packs features...
Roll your more
RYO tobacco has been growing fast and tobacco companies have been busy with new product development. But do RYO shoppers buy more than tobacco...
Cigar firm moves into RYO
SCHEDULED to be launched late last month exclusively for the convenience channel through Booker depots across the UK, new RYO brand Bentley represents a...
Scots share rises
Smokers remain loyal to brands and sizes as RYO takes more of total tobacco sales
WHILE many firms and famous brands have entered the RYO...
Patterned B&H editions say join the club
JTI is launching new limited-edition packs for Benson & Hedges Gold, which will be available this month for four weeks and while stocks last.
The...
Business as usual say tobacco firms
BACK in June, just a few months into the tobacco display ban, Scottish Grocer found that some Scottish retailers had spotted opportunities to manage...
Taking back the power
The years leading up to and including 2015 will be recorded in tobacco market history as those that witnessed regulatory developments including the full...
New face for e-cig campaign
BLU eCigs UK has recruited model and DJ Zara Martin as the face of its new campaign, Taste the Summer.
The initiative forms part of...
Curved vape
FUN and humour was the starting point for the new E-Lites e-cigarette TV ad according to one of the men behind its creation.
Vince McSweeney,...
Vaping as standard
E-cigarettes and vaping equipment are to have their own product safety standard in a bid to prevent unsafe products being sold in the UK.
The products...
More 18s from tobacco giant
INCREASING demand for low-priced packs of cigarettes has prompted JTI to add Sterling and B&H Blue Superkings to its list of lines available in...
Taking on the illegal trade
A nationwide media campaign has been launched aimed at combating the sale of illegal tobacco in the UK.
Running across more than 70 regional newspapers,...
Black market 50% up
THE UK saw an almost 50% rise in the consumption of counterfeit and contraband cigarettes in 2014, according to a KPMG report published last...
