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CHILD LABOUR
BTY MARK ROWE
THE TOBACCO industry has not been exempt from the problem of young children working in developing countries. But in the past 12 months BAT has taken significant steps to address the question of child labour. Earlier this year it helped launch the Elimination of Child Labour in Tobacco Growing Foundation, which supports community-based initiatives to address the issue.…
BAT SOCIAL REPORT
BTY MARK ROWE
THIS summer saw a watershed for BAT that may prove to be one of the most significant in the company’s 100-year history. It produced a Social Report, all 156 pages of it, outlining the company’s views on the sensitive issues that surround the business of producing tobacco.…
MARKETING MANAGER
BY MARK ROWE
ONE hundred years on, the wheel has turned full circle and brands are again at the forefront of BAT’s business. “We started in brands and territories,” said Jimmi Rembiszewski, BAT’s marketing director. “That wisdom became a little lost when BAT diversified but today we are much more brand-centric.…
DUNHILL
BY MARK ROWE
JIMMI Rembiszewski looks upon the transformation of Dunhill with some pride. “I was told that once a brand is in decline you may as well give up,” said BAT’s marketing director. “We have turned it around without reducing price and it’s enjoying an enormous revival.”…
KENT
BY MARK ROWE
LAUNCHED in America in 1954, Kent is now sold in more than 70 countries and remains the pioneer of the micronite filter. BAT’s premier free-standing lights brand has been earmarked to add competency to BAT’s portfolio in the premium, lights and Adult Smokers Under the Age of 30 (ASU30) segment of the market.…
LUCKY STRIKE
BY MARK ROWE
THE BEST selling international brand, Lucky Strike, launched in 1871, is older than BAT and its eye-catching bull’s eye remains one of the oldest trademarks in the world. It is sold in some 90 countries and is BAT’s premier global brand for the key ASU30 segment of the market, particularly with urban smokers.…
PALL MALL
BY MARK ROWE
ANOTHER leader in the ASU30 and lights segments, the American blended Pall Mall remains BAT’s leading global mid-price brand, sold in 60 countries. Launched in 1900, it today sells particularly well in eastern and central Europe as well as Italy and last year saw volumes up by 21 per cent.…
BROUGHTON INTERVIEW
BY ALAN OSBORN
IN September 1901 the legendary American tycoon James Buchanan “Buck” Duke entered the office of the Player brothers’ cigarette firm in Nottingham with the unforgettable words: “Hello boys, I’m Duke from New York, come to buy your business.”…
HEMP GRANT
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has ruled that by allowing hemp fibre crops to be harvested before its seeds are fully mature, (enabling the them to produce cannabis), the Netherlands government broke European Union subsidy rules, which are strict on the age of hemp that attracts Brussels subsidies.…
JAPAN SILK
Keith Nuthall
THE JAPANESE government has promised to annually increase import quotas for silk from China until 2005, when, under the terms of the World Trade Organisation’s Agreement on Textiles and clothing, they will be scrapped altogether. Until then, Japan has promised to widen quotas following consultations with the Chinese government.…