US: Executive Changes Announced at RAI and Its Operating Companies

Reynolds American Inc. (RAI) has announced several executive changes at both RAI and its largest subsidiary, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. All the changes will be effective Oct. 1.

• RAI Redesigns Website and Corporate Branding
• Reynolds Offers "Game Changer" Incentive
• Reynolds American Completes Acquisition of Lorillard and Related Divestitures
• Reynolds-Lorillard Tobacco Merger Gets FTC Clearance
• US: FTC Probes Further into Reynolds-Lorillard Merger
• Lorillard Shareholders Overwhelmingly Approve Combination with Reynolds American

Allure of Cuban Cigars Has waned, Local Shop Owners Say

Throughout Solvang's cigar and tobacco shops, the smell of Cubans is in the air following President Barack Obama's announcement this month that the U.S. would be working towards normalizing relation...

• Businesses Welcome Shift on Cuba

A Cigar Brand Blossoms

One of the last things you'll find going down Broadway in downtown Los Angeles is an actual Broadway show. From Third to Ninth Streets, Broadway is home to the country's largest collection of aging,...

• Cuba''s Famed Cigars Get A Foot in Door of U.S. Market
• Renewed U.S.-Cuba Ties Could Mean Big Things For Cigar Market
• Cuban Cigar Boom? Not yet, Stores and Customers Say
• Cuban Cigar Normalization Still A Pipe Dream
• US Might Be the Main Market for Cuban Cigars

World Health Org''s $20m, Secret, Taxpayer-Funded Meeting in Moscow Could Result in $33-A-Pack Cigarettes

In Moscow, the World Health Organization (WHO) is conducting its biennial Conference of the Parties meeting (COP6) between 13th to the 18th October.

• Health Authorities Push Through Taxation Guidelines Behind Closed Doors at Moscow WHO Summit
• UN''s World Health Organization Urges Global Tobacco Tax Hike
• WHO Works on A Global Tobacco Tax in Secret
• Tobacco Taxation Issues: ''COP6'' Trying to Develop Global Strategy
• What to Expect from COP6 – the All-Things-Anti-Tobacco Meeting
• Exclusion of Cigarette Firms from WHO Meet Questioned

Imperial Tobacco Closes $13 Billion of Loans

British cigarette maker Imperial Tobacco has closed loans of about $13 billion to back its acquisition of selected brands and assets from Reynolds American Inc, the lead banks said on Monday. The j...

• US: Feds Reviewing Reynolds'' Deal to Buy Lorillard
• Reynolds, Altria Lead Smokers Toward Tobacco''s New Era
• Reynolds American CEO Talks Tobacco''s Future
• Attempt to Block Lorillard Acquisition
• Lorillard Investor Sues to Halt $25 Billion Reynolds Deal
• Imperial Tobacco''s Cooper Adds Blu to Take E-Cigarette Leap