tobacco

JTI pushes for Asean body vs tobacco smuggling

KUALA LUMPUR—With the Philippines and Malaysia emerging as central nodes in Asia Pacific’s transnational illicit…

JTI unit powers on P1.9-B factory in Batangas

BATANGAS—Tobacco manufacturer JT International Asia Manufacturing Corp. (JTI-AMC) inaugurated on Wednesday a P1.9-billion tobacco expansion…

Banking, tobacco lift LT Group to record H1 profit

LT Group Inc. (LTG) grew its attributable net income by 14 percent in the first…

JTI buys additional 3.32M kg of local tobacco leaves 

JTI Philippines is purchasing an additional 3.32 million kilograms of tobacco leaf from local farmers…

Asean urged to snuff out hot tobacco trade

Middle East disruptions. Energy security jitters. The worsening conflict in Myanmar. These are among the…

BIR blocks P461M in potential tax losses from hot tobacco

The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) blocked over P400 million in potential tax losses through…

New tech pushed to boost Tobacco output

The National Tobacco Administration (NTA) is ramping up efforts to boost domestic tobacco output through…

Building business beyond the puff: Transitioning to a smoke-free future

With just 5.4 percent of its population lighting up a cigarette every day, Sweden believes…

‘Sin’ business: Can PH follow Sweden and Japan in curbing smoking?

JAKARTA, Indonesia—With Sweden becoming the world’s first smoke-free country and Japan rapidly cutting smoking rates,…

Offensive and defensive plays in the tobacco industry

For our agriculture to develop, we need both defensive and offensive strategies. How? We must…