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Welcome
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This is the homepage of World Tobacco magazine and its wider portfolio of publications, conferences and exhibitions for the industry.
This site provides tobacco news and views from around the world, mostly taken from World Tobacco magazine. Launched in 1963, World Tobacco magazine is an international publication that disseminates, to the wider tobacco industry, a regular and dependable review of the most significant happenings. Mainly published in English, World Tobacco also publishes in Chinese and Russian too. Supporting the World Tobacco magazine, the World Tobacco Directory is a comprehensive at-a-glance annual guide to the industry.
Alongside the magazine, World Tobacco has been successfully establishing events in the world's most important markets for several decades. With conferences and exhibitions in China, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas in the coming years World Tobacco events take you to regions of growth to explore the issues facing the industry on a global basis.
New for 2008, World Tobacco is now available to readers online in an interactive, page-turn presentation so you can access your copy in a more timely manner, anytime anywhere.
World Tobacco welcomes your interest, so if you have any comments or information please email us.
Duncan MacOwan
Editor
For a World Tobacco Media Pack 2008 please click here
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| Coming Soon | | Forthcoming features in the July 2008 issue of World Tobacco: |  | | Germany | | Spain | | Tear tapes | | Flavours | | World Tobacco Asia (Macau) 2008 Preview | | Indonesia supplement | | | For information on forthcoming editorial features please click here. |
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Reports
May Issue: Smokeless Supplement, India, Packaging & Design
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| [20/06/2008] | | Imperial's restructuring plans following takeover | | Imperial Tobacco has announced a number of restructuring projects in Europe, which it proposes to implement progressively over the next three years as part of its integration with Altadis. | |
| [20/06/2008] | | Fake cigarettes 'contain arsenic' | | Organised gangs are selling illegal cigarettes in Liverpool which contain arsenic, fibre glass and rat droppings, trading standards said. | |
| [20/06/2008] | | When two companies go to war | | Two tobacco companies are battling it out at Competition Commission Tribunal hearings. At issue is access to retail channels. The tribunal's ruling is likely to affect the cigarette brands that are immediately visible to consumers at retail outlets. | |
| [13/06/2008] | | Cigarette ban proposals welcomed | | Plans to ban the open display of cigarettes in Scottish shops have been welcomed by the UK Health Secretary, Alan Johnson, who said it was important to stop children from taking up smoking. | |
| [18/03/2008] | | Sector is not immune to market pressures | | The traditional strongholds of the roll-your-own (RYO) sector - Germany, UK and the Netherlands - are responding to continuing pressures from counterfeit, rising prices and consumer downtrading - just as in the factory-made-cigarette (FMC) sector. Here, World Tobacco talks with the sector's leading manufacturer Imperial Tobacco Group (global fine cut share of approximately 30%) to find out how it is meeting the increasing challenges in this sector. | |
| [10/12/2007] | | Smokeless sector shows growth as others decline | | The United States is experiencing a growing trend towards smokeless tobacco products at the expense of cigarettes but although adult consumers account for only six million compared with 40 million smokers, producers are confident of market growth as intervention on smoking makes lighting up less acceptable. Rupert Watts writes
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| [01/10/2007] | | Merger will position Imperial as a closer fourth largest manufacturer | | Bernard Anghelides takes a look at Imperial Tobacco’s acquisition of Franco-Spanish firm Altadis, highlighting the impact on the companies’ markets, and exploring the potential benefits to Imperial.
In some ways, Imperial Tobacco’s takeover of Altadis comes as no great surprise. | |
| [29/05/2008] | | Rights issue to raise net proceeds | | The Board of Imperial Tobacco has announced a fully underwritten Rights Issue to raise £4.9bn (net of expenses) to repay part of the debt facilities put in place to fund the cash consideration paid for the acquisition of Altadis. | |
| [08/02/2008] | | Best sorter goes green | | Since its official launch during the TABEXPO Show in Paris, end of last year, the sale of BEST’s TB5 high capacity belt laser sorter (up to 10 ton per hour) has taken off exceptionally well, providing tobacco processors with a highly efficient sorting solution to achieve maximum product purity (free of non-tobacco-related material also called NTRM) | |
| [16/11/2007] | | Book review: Prophets of Zoom | | Seventy years ago a group of people created a series of cards that foresaw the future. Today, several of the predictions made by these Prophets of Zoom appear amusingly weird, although many have proved chilling accurate. | |
| [09/10/2007] | | Consistently achieving quality | | Borgwaldt KC’s Marketing Director Insa Briel discusses the importance of quality control in the tobacco industry – giving examples of developments in this field, and how the practice of quality control benefits tobacco product manufacturers | |
| [01/04/2008] | | Filtrona launches new super slim range | | Filtrona Filter Products, a leading supplier of innovative specialist filters to the tobacco industry, is launching a new range of filters designed for the growing Super Slim market | |
| [09/10/2007] | | Designer style for Davidoff | | Imperial Tobacco has unveiled a new super-premium range of Davidoff cigarettes developed in partnership with a young French designer.
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| [02/08/2007] | | Ending the “Bakers Dozen” syndrome? | | Dr Ian Tindall of Cerulean examines the benefits of quality and process control to manufacturers in reducing costs and improving products | |
| [26/07/2007] | | Faster and safer with greater efficiency | | What do venues such as Holland’s Carre Theatre and Germany’s Allianz Arena have in common with the BMW three series and tobacco manufacturing? Automation. | |
| [04/07/2007] | | Staying two steps ahead of the counterfeiters | | Today counterfeit is one of the biggest problems facing the tobacco industry - eroding not only sales and tax revenues, but also compromising brand equity - ultimately leading to eroded consumer confidence. Fortunately for manufacturers, there are options available to combat the scourge of counterfeit, as Stephen Pinchen, Business Development Director of Payne Security, relates to World Tobacco Editor Duncan MacOwan | |
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