Newly Developed Blend-Type Cigarettes of Hongta Group Exported

Source from:  Xinhuanet.org 12/07/2004

A series of blend-type cigarette products newly developed by Hongta Group over recent years, including Marble, Plaza and Eston, have been exported to many other countries and regions around the world. Over recent years, Hongta Group - the largest Chinese tobacco manufacturer based in the southwestern province of Yunnan - has acquired several other tobacco manufacturing enterprises in China. As a result, Hongta has under it seven cigarette factories, with a total annual cigarette production capacity of 160 billion cigarettes. [img border=0 hspace="4" vspace="4" align="left" src=http://www.tobaccochina.com/english/picture/040520bojinhongta.jpg] As the most powerful Chinese tobacco manufacturing enterprise, Hongta Group has been actively in exploring ways of developing international markets over recent years. In accordance with the smoking habit of foreign consumers, the group has intensified efforts to develop blend-type cigarette products over recent years. Besides, it has succeeded in growing burley - an indispensable raw material for making blend-type cigarettes - and Oriental tobacco in two different regions in Yunnan, ensuring the supply of high-quality raw materials for the production of export-oriented blend-type cigarettes. Moreover, Hongta Group has strengthened cooperation with tobacco manufacturers from other countries or regions. It has invested in establishing overseas production and distribution centers in Hong Kong of China and Switzerland. So far, cigarettes and flue-cured tobacco produced by Hongta Group have been exported to more than 30 other countries and regions around the world, including Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East, East Europe and America. Enditem