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...The chief executive of British American Tobacco has endorsed the UK’s plans for a vaping tax, claiming the cigarette maker has learned to “love regulation”....
...To be fair, the UK’s new policy will not directly hit traditional tobacco manufacturers such as British American Tobacco and Imperial Brands....
...The chief executive of British American Tobacco has dismissed the idea of moving the company’s listing from London to New York as a “distraction”, after it emerged that the top-10 shareholder who pushed...
...British American Tobacco shares have fallen by a quarter over the past year as it grapples with the uncertain long-term future of its traditional cigarette business and investors push for the return of share...
...Companies in long-term, run off sectors such as oil or tobacco face a stark strategic choice. They can extract as much value as possible from legacy assets and liquidate their stock....
...British American Tobacco risks falling between the two stools. Its traditional business — which accounts for more than 85 per cent of sales and all of the profits — is struggling....
...British American Tobacco is to write down the value of some of its US cigarette brands by £25bn because of economic headwinds damaging sales in its biggest market....
...The US federal drug regulator has told British American Tobacco’s US subsidiary to halt sales of its menthol-flavoured Vuse Alto vape, the most popular e-cigarette in the US, following a jump in popularity...
...Companies: Updates are expected from Anglo-Swedish drug giant AstraZeneca, British American Tobacco, French lender Crédit Agricole, France’s L’Oréal, advertising company Publicis, Germany’s Siemens and Watches...
...It has become the biggest player in the rise of so-called social commerce, where algorithms push products that are highly personalised to the interests of individual consumers, as well as “shoppertainment...
...The new chief executive of British American Tobacco says he wants governments to subject vaping and other tobacco alternatives to “better regulations”, as global controversy over the products threatens a...
...British American Tobacco has booked a £25bn impairment charge for 2023 on some of its US cigarette brands, blaming “current macro-economic headwinds impacting the US combustibles industry”, the company said...
...British American Tobacco, with help from its 2017 acquisition of Reynolds, has done a bit better....
...I still have the same problem: where my bargains at? Lots of readers wrote in to say that UK tobacco companies and banks were at an unreasonable discount to their US brethren....
...In 2003, half of all title sponsors were from tobacco companies such as Philip Morris and British American Tobacco....
...HOLD: Imperial Brands (IMB) The company is returning a big chunk of its market cap to shareholders, writes Christopher Akers. Imperial Brands continues to produce results for income investors....
...British American Tobacco, the world’s biggest cigarette maker by revenues, has formally agreed to sell its Russian business, a year and half after first vowing to exit the country in the aftermath of Vladimir...
...The executives directly in charge of BAT’s US-based subsidiary Reynolds American and the cigarette maker’s new categories segment, which includes its popular Vuse vaping device, were both dismissed as part...
...It’s May Day this week, an international celebration of the labour movement (yes, yes, Americans and Canadians, I know your Labor Days are in September, I’ll do something worker-related then as well)....
...The elegance of Delaware law is that it has, for decades, struck a fair balance between corporate and shareholder interests....
...As the chart below shows, primary deficits (ie, ex-interest) are set to stay stable as a share of GDP even as interest payments rise: This matters because primary deficits have a different macroeconomic...
...Hostmore was created after Electra Private Equity spun off the UK operations of the American-themed restaurant chain on to the London Stock Exchange in 2021....
...Companies: Updates are expected from London-listed British American Tobacco, among others....
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