Regulatory and market intelligence for the e-cigarette sector
All of our UK-related business news briefings can be found on this page. Whether it is recent stories and updates relating to specific companies and organisations, trade and market-related vaping news or new product development within the vapour sector in the UK, you will be able to easily locate it here.
UK prime minister Boris Johnson has announced that vape stores in England should not reopen before 12th April – while the industry continues to demand that they should be considered essential businesses
British American Tobacco (BAT) has reported a “strong performance” of its e-cigarette business in 2020, with vapour revenue up more than 50% on the previous year and growth accelerating
Imperial Brands has announced a substantial change in strategy towards its vapour segment, with more focused investment in its Blu e-cigarette brand
British American Tobacco (BAT) has launched CBD e-liquids compatible with its Vuse device onto the British market as part of the company’s plan to expand its portfolio into new areas “beyond nicotine”
The British vaping industry has broadly welcomed the agreement reached on Christmas Eve between the UK and EU over the trade relations the two parties will enjoy from 1st January
Imperial Brands has revealed that net revenue from its next-generation portfolio declined by 27% in the year to September and announced that it will take a “more prudent approach” in its business model from now on
Marc Beishon, former editor of New Scientist magazine, takes recent examples of bad science to task for misrepresenting the supposed dangers of e-cigarettes, including unfounded links with COVID-19
Industry insiders have called for vape stores to be classed as essential outlets as all non-essential shops in England are ordered to close for a month under the terms of the country’s second lockdown
The number of e-cigarette users in Great Britain declined by 400,000 between 2019 and 2020, according to new research by the public health charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
Nicotine e-cigarettes can be more effective than other more traditional methods in helping smokers to quit the habit for at least six months, the latest Cochrane review of the subject has concluded
Imperial Brands has revealed that the company’s net revenue from its next-generation portfolio is around 30% down on 2019, while overall company revenue remains flat
Switching from smoking to vaping is likely to reduce harm to health but could still have risks, while flavours represent an area of further uncertainty, an independent UK government science committee has concluded
Many smokers believe vaping is at least as harmful as combustible cigarettes, despite e-cigarettes’ lower production of toxicants and carcinogens; researchers in England have been examining why
Stavroula Anastasopoulou, our senior market analyst, discussed consumer habits across the UK market at Vape Live during VOXPO – Virtual Online Vape & CBD Expo on 31st July.
British American Tobacco (BAT)’s revenue rose by 0.8% to £12.3bn ($16.1bn) in H1 2020, helped by a 14.7% increase in the new category segment
The number of vapers in the UK fell slightly in 2019 compared to the previous year, according to annual data on adult smoking habits released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS)
A month after the ban on menthol cigarettes came into effect in Europe, manufacturers are looking to new e-liquid lines to attract former menthol smokers looking for an alternative
British American Tobacco (BAT) is pushing back to 2025 its goal of achieving £5bn in revenues from its next-generation portfolio amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
The English vaping industry is preparing to reopen the roughly 3,000 vape stores across the country after a ten-week lockdown imposed by the government due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Imperial Brands, the company behind the e-cigarette brand Blu, has recorded a major slump in revenue from its next-generation products
Widely publicised linkages with the coronavirus are just the latest manifestation of distrust of vaping, in the public-health community as well as the media. So how does that “95% safer than smoking” view hold up?
All ECigIntelligence’s COVID-19-related news briefings and other data can now be found in one place here
An increase in online sales has been one of the most notable consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak on the vaping industry across Europe, as the sector continues to battle market disruptions and shop closures
British American Tobacco (BAT) is targeting an increase in non-combustible product consumers to 50m worldwide by 2030, from the current 11m
Fears over the coronavirus outbreak, and governments’ responses to it, have led to the cancellation of a number of vaping events that were scheduled over spring at locations around the world
British American Tobacco (BAT) has reported a 36.9% increase in next-generation products revenue in 2019 despite the recent and ongoing crackdown on vaping in the US
Vapers in the UK are being warned by the government to take care with batteries and chargers, in a new public-information campaign launched to address the risk of e-cigarette-related fires.
PMI saw its market share of heated tobacco units in IQOS markets, excluding the US, rise by 1.4 percentage points to 5% last year, with a 44.2% increase in HnB shipments
Imperial Brands, maker of the e-cigarette brand Blu, expects “significantly lower” year-on-year net revenues on its “next generation products” as a consequence of “regulatory uncertainty and adverse news flow”
2019 was a heated year for the vaping industry worldwide, with a lot happening on both the regulatory and market fronts. So how is 2020 shaping up?
Sign up to access our business and regulatory briefings and get the most updated news, insights and our expert analysis to keep you on top of worldwide industry trends.
By signing up you agree to our Terms and Conditions Please note trial access may take up to 24 hours to be granted as access must be qualified by a member of the ECigIntelligence team.