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...“The world has turned the corner on tobacco....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...The hotel has two restaurants, two bars, a spa and pool, an extensive cellar and a “shisha sommelier” to assist guests in selecting tobaccos....
...The Supreme Court will rule, not on the merits of the case, known as Dukes v Walmart, but on Walmart’s claim that the class is too broadly constituted, and that the complaints should be brought on a more...
...Altria, the largest US tobacco company, added 3.3 per cent to $20.34 after the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal filed by the Obama administration against the tobacco industry....
...But today those taking up golf see pictures of Seve Ballesteros in a plain navy blue Slazenger V-neck jumper and think, ‘How cool does he look? I want to look like that.’”...
...But unlike Dad, he embodied everything Texan, down to the can of chewing tobacco in the back pocket of his jeans....
...That case, Altria Group v Good, could determine whether tobacco companies are shielded from lawsuits seeking billions of dollars over the marketing of “light” cigarettes....
...Kindler, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer Inc., USA Klaus Kleinfeld, President and CEO, Siemens AG, Germany Mustafa V....
...But it reaches far beyond tobacco, and could have big implications for every company that makes or sells products in the US....
...Just this week, the US Supreme Court agreed to reconsider this quintessentially American proposition by reviewing the case of Williams v Big Tobacco, in which Williams’s widow won nearly $80m from Philip...
...It was bought in 2002 by the UK subsidiary of the family-controlled Yemeni company, Hayel Saeed Anam Group, but, despite the closure of one factory, losses mounted....
...Indeed, opinion polls at the time of the Pelman v McDonald's case showed that more than 80 per cent of the US public thought the case was frivolous....
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