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In a joint effort to combat illicit traffic, BAT Romania donates 300 new special surveillance cameras to the Romanian Border Police. These are added to the 250 surveillance cameras donated last year, thus completing the surveillance…

BAT paid 5 billion lei to the state budget in the first half of 2021, an increase of 700 million RON (or 18%) versus the first half of 2020. Excise duties represent about 60% of the price of a pack of cigarettes, plus VAT, which means that…

Policemen have conducted 41 searches in Bucharest and other 6 counties on Monday in a cigarette smuggling case. Several people, including two servicemen are suspected of manufacturing, depositing and selling tobacco. The prejudice is…

British American Tobacco (BAT), the largest cigarette producer in Romania, announced on Thursday that it will invest EUR 800 million over the next 5 years in its factory in Ploiești. The investment will go not only into growing the…

Attending the event in Ploiesti that announced the strategic investment to be made by British American Tobacco (BAT) in Romania in the upcoming years, Romanian Finance Minister Eugen Teodorovici hailed the initiative and announced some…

The black market in tobacco increased by 1.6 percentage points in March 2018, as compared to January 2018, to 17.2 percent of total consumption, Novel Research study shows. Also, in the first quarter of this year, the average illicit…

British American Tobacco Romania is releasing the on-line map of the cigarette seizures in Romania at www.stopcontrabanda.ro, in an unprecedented campaign fighting the cigarette smuggling. The negative effects of the illicit cigarette…

A study conducted by the National Antidrug Agency reveals that almost one third of the Romanian teenagers aged up to 16 have smoked at least one cigarette in the past 30 days, while almost 20% of them are smoking on a daily basis, although…

Cigarette manufacturer JTI appointed in April a new general manager for Romania, R. of Moldova and Bulgaria, Mark Rock, replacing Charlie Cunningham-Reid, who will lead the JTI Corporate Affairs & Communications Department in the UK.…