All Tobacco articles – Page 9
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Risky business?
The risks involved in selling illicit cigarettes have risen substantially as, for the first time ever in the UK, a retailer has been found guilty of intentionally selling dangerous cigarettes. Until now, any UK retailer caught selling "cheap whites" has been prosecuted for tax evasion, but Shapoor Atiqi from Boston ...
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Burning issues
The tobacco display ban, which was implemented in larger stores (3,000sq ft-plus) last April, is also now in place in Northern Ireland and Wales, with Scotland set to follow suit this April. Lessons learned from these bigger stores will no doubt help retailers with smaller stores, when they have to ...
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Focus on Tobacco: Light and shade
April 6 has been and gone and with it went traditional tobacco displays in stores of 3,000sq ft and above. Instead shoppers in the grocery multiples and larger convenience stores across England are met with kiosks with their shutters down over the tobacco products. One quick glance and these kiosks ...
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Your chance
Yet another big change for smokers and retailers comes into force in a matter of weeks when large stores (more than 280sq m or 3,000sq ft) across England will no longer be able to display tobacco products. From April 6, smokers going into a Tesco superstore to buy ...
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Do it yourself
Imperial Tobacco says it is helping fight the illicit tobacco trade with its new JPS make-your-own (MYO) cigarette kit. MYO cigarettes have been available before in the UK but without the backing of a big brand name like JPS. However, don’t get too excited just yet as the product was ...
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Rolling on
Roll-your-own (RYO) tobacco sales topped £1bn in the 12 months ending July 2010, according to AC Nielsen’s Market Track report, which is an increase of over 19% compared to the previous year."For those who have been watching the market closely, this comes as no surprise," says Iain Watkins, Imperial Tobacco’s ...
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Cloudy times
Diarmuid O’Donovan has a friendly smile and some easy banter for everyone who walks into his smart O’Donovans forecourt store in leafy Carrigrohane, in the Republic of Ireland. As the owner of the busy County Cork site for the past 13 years, he knows many customers who pass through his ...
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Little extras
You can’t smoke a cigarette without a lighter or matches. Likewise you can’t make a roll your own cigarette without papers. These items the lighters, matches and papers are often forgotten when you think about the multi-billion pound cigarette market but they have an important part to play.According ...
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Still burning bright
Amid all the furore about the proposed tobacco display ban, tobacco manufacturers remain surprisingly upbeat about the UK tobacco category and its future. And when you take time to look at the figures you can see why. Currently 13 million adults choose to smoke tobacco products in the UK and ...
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The big smoke
With all the legislative issues affecting the tobacco market, it could be easy to lose sight of the category’s importance to the forecourt sector. And important it is. After all it’s not that long ago that the forecourt ’shop’ was more of a kiosk selling cigarettes and a bit of ...
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Smoke signals
Another year and yet more legislation for the tobacco industry. In 2007 we had the ban on smoking in public places plus the rise in the age at which people could buy tobacco - from 16 to 18. This year we have new laws for lighters plus the introduction ...
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Burning desire
In 2006 adult smokers spent just over £13bn on cigarettes, cigars, RYO tobacco, lighters and other accessories - and a lot of that money went through forecourt tills. Cigarettes is, of course, by far the biggest part of the market - worth £11.34bn in retail sales. And forecourts take an ...
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Burning issues
Tobacco retailers were already facing a raft of new legislation before the New Year’s Day announcement concerning the raising of the minimum legal age for buying tobacco products from 16 to 18 from October 1. The government’s continuing efforts to coerce more smokers into quitting could also see the introduction ...
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NewsDon’t give up
With the ever-increasing duty on tobacco said to be fuelling a boom in counterfeit products and forcing consumers to down-trade to cheaper brands, retailers, manufacturers and smokers alike were hoping Gordon Brown would give them a break. However, the Budget in March saw yet another rise, this time of 9p ...
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Kingsize opportunity
It’s been another challenging year for the tobacco industry as the legislative pressures pile on, but the category continues to do well and not least on forecourts. Despite the much publicised plans to ban smoking in public places, more than 13 million adults – around 30% of the adult population ...
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In the firing line
Despite the government’s efforts to curb smoking in the UK, the tobacco category continues to thrive and maintain its position as the best-selling category in forecourts, responsible for almost one third of total forecourt shop sales.The government has hit the tobacco industry with a ban on advertising, the introduction of ...
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In the firing line
Despite the government’s efforts to curb smoking in the UK, the tobacco category continues to thrive and maintain its position as the best-selling category in forecourts, responsible for almost one third of total forecourt shop sales.The government has hit the tobacco industry with a ban on advertising, the introduction of ...