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Chinese Manufacturers Adopt Multiple Anti-Counterfeiting Strategies
By Allen Liao
As the counterfeiting of tobacco products continues to pose a serious problem plaguing the tobacco industry, Chinese tobacco manufacturers, particularly high-grade cigarette producers, are adopting multiple approaches and technologies to fight rampant counterfeiting in the country.
Cigarette counterfeiting in China is so serious that in 2009 alone Chinese tobacco monopoly administrative authorities seized 6.14 billion cigarettes in anti-counterfeiting operations nationwide.
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Urschel Celebrates 100 Years
Staff Report
Urschel, a leading name in size reduction technology, celebrates its first 100 years as a family-run company this year.
Founded in 1910, Urschel Laboratories, Inc. is the world leader in food cutting equipment manufacturing. Urschel is not just a builder of machines. The company works with customers to develop solutions to processing problems, finding – or creating – the best Urschel machine to fit any production situation.
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BEST for Japan Tobacco Group
Staff Report
As the tobacco market is increasingly under pressure, facing rigorous regulations worldwide, leading manufacturers are searching for the ...
Filtrona in Asia and Beyond
Staff Report
Filtrona Filter Products has opened a new regional development center in Indonesia to provide customers in Asia with a dedicated resource...
China’s Premier Cigar Brand Technological Leadership and Sustainable Development
By Allen Liao
The technological leadership status of the Great Wall cigar brand of China Tobacco Chuanyu Industrial Corporation (CTCIC) in southwest C...
China’s Tobacco Industry Deals with Natural Disasters
By Allen Liao
The tobacco industry of China, with production hampered by lingering adverse weather, is striving to fight off natural disasters and gua...
The Kretek Conundrum
By Heneage Mitchell
Kretek clove cigarettes are preferred by over 93% of smokers in Indonesia. But outside the country, kretek remains largely unknown...
Jember: Indonesia’s “Tobacco Town” Back on the Map
Staff Report
Situated in East Java province in Indonesia covering an area of 3,293.34 square km is a small town called Jember. For more than 50 years ...
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Japan’s Retail Trends New Pricing Environment: New Cigarette Market?
By Don HedleyJapan’s smokers have not had to deal with a tax-driven price hike for four years and have got used to some of the lowest prices in the developed world. Don Hedley, tobacco analyst at Euromonitor International, speculates on the possible impact of the approaching big rise and suggests that the pricing environment in Japan has already changed.Advertisement
