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...Health was the best-performing category, with growth driven by the company’s “intimate wellness” brands — which include Durex, Queen V and K-Y — and improving performance in China....
...British American Tobacco (BAT) continues to double down on global tobacco, having once flirted with UK financial services....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...He also extended a $30mn loan to a company registered in the name of Epstein’s private pilot. The company, Plan D LLC, owned a Gulfstream jet....
...The one pictured here contained the widely sold item of cigarettes, made by the leading tobacco company WD & HO Wills....
...More loans were allegedly given by Cox & Kings to V Hotels, a struggling beachfront property bought by Peter and Urrshila’s father, Ajit, in 2001....
...Tobacco shares fell in Europe on Tuesday morning on reports the Biden administration is considering forcing companies to strip cigarettes of nicotine and banning menthol products in the US....
...“The world has turned the corner on tobacco....
...Tobacco companies have been ploughing investment into alternatives to cigarettes as tobacco sales have declined in the west....
...You may keep a toe in defensive equities, for example utilities and tobacco. These are down around a tenth....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...the vaping brand Blu (along with a handful of other tobacco assets) from RJ Reynolds-Lorillard in 2014....
...This should provide opportunities for sustainable, profitable growth for the European tobacco companies on which we initiate, but will throw into sharper relief the leaders and laggards.”...
...Conversely a rapid recovery could see earnings recover faster than we expect.. 2:00pm GMT - Clyde Lewis of Peel Hunt has some v. interesting scenario work on the UK housebuilders: So for the base case...
...They have also helped persuade investors that parent company Kering, which depends on Gucci for 80 per cent of its profits, may have another hit up its sleeve....
...We think it’s largely right that the gaming sector will enjoy a V-shaped recovery as sporting events resume....
...That is how tobacco was won.”...
...But the tobacco industry has an opportunity to work with regulators, Brooke Masters writes....
...He cites the strategic use of BITs in tobacco company Philip Morris’s claims against Australia and Uruguay for requiring cigarettes to be sold in plain, non-branded packaging....
...Last year, Taillevent’s owners hired chef David Bizet from the Four Seasons’ George V to reinvent and modernise the menu....
...(FT) Milan v Madrid Southern Europe’s two main financial centres were both hit by the 2008 crash, but prices in Madrid have raced ahead of those in its Italian cousin since....
...Debate is still raging about Big Tobacco's funding of health research....
...$200bn extracted from Big Tobacco in 1998....
...Reynolds Tobacco, Lorillard, and Philip Morris USA intentionally designed cigarettes to make them more addictive". The WHO has poured scorn on Philip Morris' new "Foundation for a Smoke-free World"....
...More than 267,000 Indonesia children are estimated to use tobacco every day....
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