Vuse performance in the US boosts BAT’s revenue in H1 2020
31st July 2020 | News analysis |
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
LATEST ALERTSBritish 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
Juul has submitted a 125,000-page premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to continue selling its tobacco and menthol pods in the country
The volume of Juul in the US is estimated at 440m units in Q2 2020, nearly 10% less than in 2019, while the company aims to “reset” its business
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued warnings to Puff Bar and nine other companies demanding they withdraw unapproved vapour products from the market
A California-based company is seeking US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorisation to market what it calls the first “vapour-style inhalable” nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) device
The US Congress is getting closer to considering a prohibition on sending e-cigarettes via the mail after the Senate unanimously approved new legislation
Lawmakers in the US state of Georgia have voted to impose a tax on e-cigarettes from 1st January 2021; after passing both chambers of the legislature the bill is now awaiting only the governor’s signature
Voters in the US state of Colorado will decide in November whether to enact a new tax on vapour products after the state legislature agreed to put a taxation scheme for nicotine products to the ballot
Officials in the US state of Montana want to implement a total ban on the sale, marketing, and advertising of flavoured vaping products, in a move they admit could seriously impact the local industry
US vapers are becoming increasingly drawn to fruit flavours. In the first quarter of 2020 the category accounted for more than 40% of all e-liquids tracked by ECigIntelligence for its newly launched US flavours tracker
RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company and two of its affiliates have filed a lawsuit trying to strike down Los Angeles County’s ban on flavoured vapour and tobacco products
Canada could soon have provincial vaping laws from coast to coast after Alberta, the one province without its own law, tabled legislation to crack down on where vaping products can be sold and who can purchase them
Members of the US Congress have asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to produce “a public list” of vaping products for which premarket tobacco product applications (PMTA) have been submitted
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 Altria Group have filed a lawsuit for patent infringement against R. J. Reynolds Vapor Co., a subsidiary of Reynolds American Inc., over some of its Vuse e-cigarette products
World No Tobacco Day provides an opportunity to consider the approach that public health authorities, policymakers, and advocates around the world have towards the role of tobacco-alternatives products
California is putting forward a budget proposal that would increase taxes on vapour products in the next fiscal year and promises to work on a statewide flavour ban
Brazil has postponed until next year a decision on the possible legalisation of e-cigarettes amid a “reorientation” of health priorities to contain the expansion of the coronavirus pandemic
Minnesota and Oklahoma have adopted laws raising the legal age to purchase tobacco and vapour products to 21, bringing to 26 the number of US states to have taken similar measures
The Canadian province of Nova Scotia is to limit the nicotine concentration in e-cigs to 20 mg/ml. And with no federal regulation on the issue, some other provinces are considering a similar approach
Imperial Brands, the company behind the e-cigarette brand Blu, has recorded a major slump in revenue from its next-generation products
A planned increase in sales taxes on e-cigarettes has been halted in the US state of Maryland due to concern about the economic impact on the industry amid the coronavirus pandemic
Virginia-based tobacco manufacturer Altria aims to establish the company as the industry leader by increasing its tobacco alternatives portfolio in ten years’ time and joining efforts in preventing underage use
A new bill introduced in the New Jersey Legislature is considering new regulations for vapour businesses and dramatically increasing the licence cost for opening new vape stores
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?
Vaping businesses in the US state of New Jersey, already crunched by the coronavirus pandemic, now say they need to make radical changes to stay afloat under a state ban on the sale of flavoured e-cigs
The sweeping response to the global COVID-19 pandemic has had an uneven impact on the US vaping sector, with some stores being forced to close while others respond in novel ways to government restrictions
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has rejected a call to “clear the e-cigarette market” during the COVID-19 crisis – eliciting an angry response from a House subcommittee
Altria has appointed Billy Gifford as the company’s new CEO and announced the retirement of current CEO and chairman, Howard Willard, who has been in the company for 28 years
The Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica is heading towards passing new legislation before the end of April that would ban the use of e-cigarettes in public and impose taxes on all e-cigs and e-liquids
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