Hongta Group, Provincial Company Meet on Development of Competitive Brands

Source from:  Hongta Group 05/21/2012

Hongta Group in southwest China's tobacco-producing Yunnan Province and Guangdong Provincial Tobacco Company in south China's Guangdong Province, which doubles as Guangdong Provincial Tobacco Monopoly Administration, held a meeting on cooperation in the development of competitive cigarette brands in Guangdong's provincial capital city of Guangzhou on May 11. The participants in the meeting included CEO Li Suiming, Deputy CEOs Jin Yibin and Xia Kaiyuan and other leaders of Hongta Group, and General Manager Hu Chunhe, Deputy General Managers He Jianhua and Chen Huanping and other leaders of Guangdong Provincial Tobacco Company. During the meeting, the two sides conducted friendly talks and exchanged views on promoting the development of competitive cigarette brands of Hongta Group in future, in order to usher in a win-win situation. Speaking at the meeting, Hu Chunhe expressed gratitude to Hongta Group for its great support over the past many years, and said that cigarette products of Hongta Group are actually a pillar of cigarette markets in Guangdong Province. The entire workforce of Guangdong Provincial Tobacco Company will keep pace with both the thinking and operation of Hongta Group, attach greater importance and care to the development of competitive cigarette brands of Hongta Group, actively make plans for the development of competitive cigarette brands of Hongta Group, adhere to the policy of leading development of cigarette markets with high-end products, and do a good job of publicizing, promoting, developing and fostering such big competitive brands as Yuxi and Mount Hongtashan of Hongta Group, in order to promote the sales of both Yuxi and Mount Hongtashan to higher levels through concerted efforts of the two sides, according to Hu Chunhe. Speaking on the same occasion, Li Suiming said that Hongta Group has always won great support from Guangdong Provincial Tobacco Company in all crucial phases of its business development, that cigarette markets in Guangdong Province are well developed, and that Hongta Group is full of confidence in and expectation to further development of markets in Guangdong Province. Li Suiming quoted Director-General Jiang Chengkang of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration as saying in an inspection of Hongta Group that Hongta Group should better play a leading and mainstay role in promoting cigarette production in China to higher levels. During that inspection, Jiang Chengkang put forward the general principle of "structural reform, promotion to higher levels, increasing momentum and strengthening vigor and vitality" to Hongta Group. In compliance with the requirement of Jiang Chengkang and in light of the plan for future development of Yuxi and Mount Hongtashan, Hongta Group is fully confident in close cooperation with Guangdong Provincial Tobacco Company, in striving to seek new breakthrough in jointly promoting cigarette production and marketing to higher levels, according to Li Suiming. Hongta Deputy CEO Xia Kaiyuan presided over the meeting. The entire leadership of the marketing center of Hongta Group also attended the meeting. Enditem