AUSTRALIA RETAILERS AND WHOLESALERS HAVE SURVIVED LOCAL TOBACCO PLAIN PACKAGING LAW
April 14th, 2014
IT took wholesaler Gerard Munday about six months to get over the impact of the new plain packaging laws for tobacco products, introduced in Australia in December 2012. “At the beginning it was confronting. Suddenly all looked the same and without colours or brands receiving stock, filling shelves and selling products took much longer than before”, said Munday, owner of the independent Patterson Road Wholesalers, in Melbourne. “The transition period was not only painful but also time-consuming and therefore expensive and the manufacturers left us retailers ...
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