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...PMI will not revive aborted plans by Swedish Match to unwind its cigar business. Swedish Match announced that it would sell off the unit in September 2021 but suspended the process in March....
...“Clearly, we like doing deals,” says Ms Cooper, who has been with the group since 1999. “Anyone does – we’re not an exception.”...
...They have to work hard for it though, as Imperial Tobacco and Swedish Match both demonstrated on Tuesday....
...The men wear massive, ornate buckles on their trousers and don’t mind a bit of a stacked heel to go with their business attire. Women smoke big, fat cigars....
...Yet despite the prize at hand, doing business in India has never been a straightforward affair for foreign tobacco majors....
...The Russian tobacco maker said it had had interest from a ?number of investors? before doing the deal with Altadis....
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