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Banks were back in the spotlight as HSBC and Barclays gave updates and Lloyds Banking Group announced plans to cut 5,000 jobs.

ICAEW -qualified Alison Cooper is set to take on the chief executive role at FTSE 100 cigarette business Imperial Tobacco .

Star Scientific Inc. plans to introduce a nutraceutical in 2010 that would help adult smokers maintain a nicotine-free metabolism.

North Carolina's highest court says three cigarette companies no longer have to make payments to tobacco farmers in Maryland and Pennsylvania through a decade-old settlement.

Del Mar, CA - The Mundus Group, Inc. is an advanced aerospace technology consortium providing patented Vertical Take Off and Landing technology for experimental aircraft and Unmanned Air Vehicles since 1990 through its fully owned VTOL division, Roadable Aircraft International .

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.'s bid to carve out a "free speech" marketing niche for innovative products received a setback yesterday.

A federal judge ruled Thursday that tobacco companies hoping to block new restrictions on their marketing have little chance of succeeding.

Du... 10/29/2009 - 06:27 PM CHICAGO-- --CNA Financial Corporation announced that, effective November 2, David Rutkowski has been appointed senior vice president of Commercial Segments.

OMAHA, Neb. -- AMCON Distributing Co., an Omaha, Neb.-based consumer products company, has announced that it will significantly increase its wholesale distribution presence in the Northwest Arkansas market with the acquisition of the convenience store distribution assets of Discount Distributors from its parent Harps Food Stores Inc., Springdale, ...

A former tobacco industry executive said Friday in Charleston that cigarette companies have targeted black people in America.

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The nation's two top cigarette-makers are boosting per-pack prices by 6 cents to 8 cents.

A Manhattan judge has rejected New York state's bid to collect $15 million from R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.

AMCON Distributing Company , an Omaha, Nebraska based consumer products company is pleased to announce that the Board of Directors of AMCON has increased its quarterly cash dividend by 80% to a rate of $0.18 per common share.

Philip Morris USA will raise prices on its top-selling Marlboro and other cigarette brands, a company spokesman said on Monday.

British American Tobacco Plc, the world's second-biggest cigarette maker, posted a 3 percent dip in underlying nine-month sales volumes as it said trading conditions had deteriorated.

In this April 20, 1997, picture, New York State Police and Seneca Nation Indians and their supporters clash on the New York State Thruway on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation, near Irving, as the Senecas hold a protest rally over New York state's attempt to collect taxes on cigarettes and gasoline sold on the reservation.

Cigarette maker Lorillard Inc.'s largest competitors _ Altria Group Inc. and Reynolds American Inc.

A deepening deficit has New York officials looking again at how to collect unpaid taxes on cigarettes sold by Indian tribes to non-Indians. The issue is also making unlikely allies of cigarette makers and anti-smoking interests who say taxation would limit illegal sales and keep cigarettes out of the hands of minors.

Cigarette maker Lorillard Inc. said Monday that its third-quarter profit dipped 1 percent, pinched by higher expenses and consumers tightening their spending.