FDA gives the green light for IQOS roll-out onto the US market

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 30th April 2019 || Business briefing |

North America

United States

Heated tobacco

IQOS

Business briefing

The US FDA has given its approval for Philip Morris International (PMI)’s IQOS in the US, along with its associated consumables ― the first heated-tobacco products to be so approved ...

PMI subsidiary offers life insurance discount to smokers who switch

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 25th April 2019 || Business briefing |

Europe

UK

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

PMI is getting into the life insurance business by creating a subsidiary which offers discounts for switching from smoking to heated tobacco or e-cigarettes ...

HnB and e-cigs could provide a silver lining for Austrian tobacconists

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 25th March 2019 || Business briefing |

Austria

Europe

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

Austrian tobacconists, hit by falling cigarette sales, could find salvation in the growing market for tobacco alternatives ...

Next-generation products drive profits for British American Tobacco

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 1st March 2019 || Business briefing |

Combustibles

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

British American Tobacco’s (BAT) 2018 financial results were driven by its reduced risk portfolio, which includes products such as Vuse and Vype and Glo ...

BAT and PMI test the legal waters again with F1 sponsorships

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 14th February 2019 || Business briefing |

EU

EU

Europe

UK

UK

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

The now-controversial link between Big Tobacco and Formula 1 racing is being renewed, with tie-ups between two leading teams and two tobacco giants facing legal scrutiny ...

The future is not in combustibles, as Altria’s sales continue to decline

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 1st February 2019 || Business briefing |

North America

United States

Combustibles

Business briefing

The 2018 results from the Altria Group revealed a slump in sales of combustibles. The company is now turning its attention to alternative sectors such as cannabis and Juul, and preparing for the US launch of IQOS ...

JT shows two new higher-temp HnB devices for Japan

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 21st January 2019 || Business briefing |

Asia

Japan

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

Japan Tobacco (JT) is launching two new heat-not-burn (HnB) devices in the Japanese market as it tries to catch up with IQOS and Glo in its home territory ...

IQOS versus Glo: PMI takes on BAT in Japanese HnB patent battle

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 3rd December 2018 || Business briefing |

Asia

Japan

Heated tobacco

IQOS

Business briefing

Philip Morris International (PMI) is suing British American Tobacco (BAT) in Japan for infringement of the patent for IQOS, claiming the rival company has copied the technology for its own Glo device ...

PMI hopes to ‘make an impact’ with IQOS store in South Africa

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 23rd November 2018 || Business briefing |

Africa

South Africa

Heated tobacco

IQOS

Business briefing

Philip Morris International (PMI) is to open an IQOS flagship store in Johannesburg, South Africa next year – with a welcome from the local e-cig industry ...

China Tobacco launches new HnB system on South Korean market

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 14th November 2018 || Business briefing |

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

China Tobacco is taking on Philip Morris International (PMI), British American Tobacco (BAT) and KT&G in South Korea with the launch of a new heated tobacco device, the Mok ...

IQOS global upgrades announced; dual consumables for Japan

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 24th October 2018 || Business briefing |

Asia

Japan

Heated tobacco

IQOS

Business briefing

PMI has announced the worldwide launch of two new IQOS devices during a series of events in Japan. The iQOS 3 and iQOS Multi feature quicker charging and longer battery life ...

Good but could be better – 2018 no longer looks quite as rosy for BAT

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 17th October 2018 || Business briefing |

Asia

Europe

Japan

North America

United States

World

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

British American Tobacco (BAT) has lowered its expectations of its heated tobacco and vaping products this year – but still anticipates continuing growth ...

PMI predicts a big future for IQOS – ‘30% of our sales by 2025’

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 12th October 2018 || Business briefing |

EU

Europe

World

Heated tobacco

IQOS

Business briefing

PMI confidently expects to shift more heated tobacco devices and consumables in the next few years as a fall is anticipated in sales of combustible cigarettes ...

Imperial Brands confirms Pulze for Japan, announces Nixx e-liquid

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 28th September 2018 || Business briefing |

Asia

Japan

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

Imperial Brands has confirmed the launch of its first heated tobacco product, Pulze, in early 2019 in Japan, which is proving a fertile market for heat-not-burn (HnB) ...

Chinese HnB exhibitors make a mark at Korea’s first Vape Expo

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 18th September 2018 || Business briefing |

Asia

South Korea

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

The different cultural and regulatory regimes surrounding vaping and heated tobacco in South Korea were on display at the country’s first vaping show ...

Tax hikes and usage restrictions will impact on HnB in Japan

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 11th September 2018 || Business briefing |

Asia

Japan

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

Tax on products in Japan’s growing heated tobacco market will go up on 1st October, as part of a staggered series of rises up to 2022, that will bring the levies on them closer to those on combustible...

Why BAT could get two HnB devices to the US market before IQOS

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 1st August 2018 || Business briefing |

North America

United States

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

British American Tobacco (BAT) may get two heated-tobacco products onto the US market before IQOS can be launched there, thanks to its decision to take a different route to FDA approval ...

Advantage BAT in the race to open up US for heated tobacco

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 30th July 2018 || Business briefing |

North America

United States

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

British American Tobacco (BAT) has a chance to steal a march on its Big Tobacco rivals in the heated-tobacco market after the company became the first to receive approval to sell a heat-not-burn device in the US ...

HnB and e-liquids bring manufacturing boost to Eastern Europe

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 4th July 2018 || Business briefing |

Europe

Poland

Romania

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

E-cigarette manufacturers and tobacco giants are increasing investment in Central and Eastern Europe, building new plants or expanding existing ones to meet growing demand for new tobacco alternatives ...

Japanese firm launches independent rival device to heat IQOS Heets

Written by Freddie Dawson || 4th July 2018 || Business briefing |

Asia

Japan

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

A new heated-tobacco device which uses PMI’s tobacco consumables Heets will be officially launched on the Japanese market later this month by Jouz, a new independent...

Beyond Kungfu – China Tobacco ready to move further into vapour and HnB

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 18th June 2018 || Business briefing |

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

China Tobacco, the Chinese state monopoly, looks set to increase its involvement in alternative products, including both e-cigarettes and heated tobacco – possibly in co-operation with major foreign...

Imperial planning further pushes ahead into smokeless market

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 21st May 2018 || Business briefing |

Europe

North America

United States

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

Imperial Brands will focus on its next generation portfolio and expand its e-cigarette Myblu into new markets in order to give itself a better alternative to traditional tobacco...

PMI: ‘no ceiling in sight for heated tobacco products’

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 18th May 2018 || Business briefing |

Asia

EU

Europe

Japan

North America

United States

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

PMI expects its reduced-risk portfolio and continued good performance in Asian countries to continue to drive growth and aims to have at least 30% of its shipment volume to consist of new tobacco products by 2025 ...

Rival HnB devices that use IQOS consumables available in Japan

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 17th May 2018 || Business briefing |

Asia

Japan

Heated tobacco

IQOS

Business briefing

Japan’s advanced heated tobacco market and its ban on nicotine e-liquid are between them leading e-cigarette manufacturers to launch their own HnB devices – many compatible with the Heets made for market leader...

Big in Japan – now JTI and BAT plan to make heated tobacco even bigger

Written by Freddie Dawson || 7th May 2018 || Business briefing |

Asia

Japan

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

British American Tobacco (BAT) and Japan Tobacco International (JTI) are both planning further investment in reduced-risk products following successful Japanese...

PMI and Altria report cigarettes down, HnB and vapour up

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 2nd May 2018 || Business briefing |

Asia

Europe

Japan

North America

South Korea

United States

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

While sales of traditional cigarettes continue to decline worldwide, PMI is increasingly relying on its heated-tobacco device IQOS to buoy up its financial results, particularly through sales in Japan and Korea ...

Creativity and controversy – how PMI spreads the word about IQOS

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 23rd April 2018 || Business briefing |

Asia

Canada

Colombia

EU

Europe

France

Japan

Lithuania

North America

Romania

South Korea

UK

Ukraine

United States

Heated tobacco

IQOS

Business briefing

Promotional activity of various kinds, some of it highly creative, has helped PMI expand the global market share for IQOS – but not without a share of...

Vape show reveals mixed feelings on Japan’s market future

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 16th April 2018 || Business briefing |

Asia

Japan

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

Opinions on the future of the Japanese e-cigarette market at the country’s first vape sector tradeshow were mixed, with some optimism despite the continuing ban on nicotine e-liquid and the dramatic success of HnB...

Cigarette production ends as PMI turns Greek plant over to HnB consumables

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 26th March 2018 || Business briefing |

Europe

Greece

Heated tobacco

IQOS

Business briefing

Philip Morris International has ceased production of traditional cigarettes at its Papastratos factory in the Athens suburb of Aspropyrgos in Greece, which will now manufacture only Heets, the tobacco sticks for...

JT set to take the biggest hit from Japan’s new HnB tax plans

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 6th March 2018 || Business briefing |

Asia

Japan

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

The budget plan making its way through a host of Japanese parliamentary committees includes a staggered series of tax rises for heated tobacco products as well as combustible cigarettes – and Japan Tobacco could suffer...

IQOS/Ferrari F1 partnership is confirmed – but no logo yet in view

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 27th February 2018 || Business briefing |

EU

Europe

World

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

PMI and the Ferrari Formula 1 team have confirmed their partnership for the 2018 Grand Prix season, but the IQOS logo has not yet appeared on the Italian team’s new...

BAT now claims to be biggest reduced-risk tobacco company in the world

Written by Freddie Dawson || 23rd February 2018 || Business briefing |

Europe

North America

UK

UK

United States

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

British American Tobacco claims to be the largest reduced-risk product company in the world following its acquisition of Reynolds American and says it will build on this through a variety of HnB, moist tobacco and oral tobacco...

As cigarette sales fall, PMI and JT plan further HnB investment

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 16th February 2018 || Business briefing |

Asia

Europe

Japan

North America

World

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

As tobacco giants Philip Morris International (PMI) and Japan Tobacco (JT) have been hit by falling tobacco sales, revenues from their e-cigarette and heat-not-burn (HnB) portfolios have increased ...

Heat-not-burn products rise as cigarette sales fall in Japan

Written by Freddie Dawson || 9th February 2018 || Business briefing |

Asia

Japan

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

Reduced-risk products have severely impacted sales of conventional cigarettes in Japan, according to Japan Tobacco. The firm says the total value of cigarette sales fell by 12.5% in 2017 ...

IQOS flourishes across Southeast Asia – without PMI’s approval

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 6th February 2018 || Business briefing |

Asia

Indonesia

Japan

Malaysia

Philippines

South Korea

Vietnam

Heated tobacco

IQOS

Business briefing

The IQOS heated tobacco system is on sale across Southeast Asia, despite doubts over its legality in a number of countries, and the official disapproval of its maker, PMI ...

IQOS could hit the motorsport trail in tie-ups with Ferrari and Ducati

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 25th January 2018 || Business briefing |

EU

EU

Europe

World

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

PMI is strongly rumoured to be preparing sponsorship deals with Ferrari and Ducati to promote its IQOS heated-tobacco brand on the world motor-racing circuits of Formula 1 and MotoGP ...

The way ahead: Big Tobacco looks to a smoke-free next generation

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 20th November 2017 || Business briefing |

EU

Europe

North America

United States

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

Big Tobacco is moving towards a smoke-free future, with all the leading companies indicating a focus in 2018 on next generation products, whether e-cigarettes or heated tobacco...

Web traffic shows global interest in HnB since Big Tobacco product launches

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 10th November 2017 || Business briefing |

Asia

Japan

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

A new market report from ECigIntelligence reveals the growth in global internet traffic to heated tobacco websites since the launch of heat-not-burn products by some Big Tobacco...

KT&G launches HnB Lil in South Korea, challenging IQOS and Glo on price

Written by Freddie Dawson || 8th November 2017 || Business briefing |

Asia

South Korea

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

The biggest tobacco company in South Korea, KT&G, has launched its own heat-not-burn (HnB) device into the rapidly expanding tobacco alternatives market in the country, where it will compete with PMI’s IQOS and BAT’s...

Boom in IQOS figures reveals HnB’s rising share of world tobacco market

Written by Freddie Dawson || 26th October 2017 || Business briefing |

Asia

Japan

South Korea

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

Heated tobacco continues to take up a greater and greater share of the total world tobacco market, according to new figures from Philip Morris International (PMI) outlining the success of its IQOS...

Glo ‘could transform’ tobacco consumption in Russia, says BAT

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 23rd October 2017 || Business briefing |

Russia

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

BAT has announced the launch of its Glo heat-not-burn (HnB) device in Russia, where the device can be bought online and Neostiks consumables will be available in branded stores ...

Japan’s online searches for HnB outstrip American interest in vaping

Written by Barnaby Page || 16th October 2017 || Business briefing |

Asia

Japan

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

The number of Google searches in Japan for topics related to heat-not-burn has rocketed, illustrating how rapidly the new nicotine technology has gained ground in that...

Japanese regulation favours HnB products over e-cigarettes

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 18th September 2017 || Business briefing |

Asia

Japan

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

The market for heated tobacco products in Japan is very favourable due to comparatively light regulation – as opposed to e-cigarettes, which are subject to more...

BAT launches Glo and Dunhill Neostiks on the South Korean HnB market

Written by Freddie Dawson || 17th August 2017 || Business briefing |

Asia

South Korea

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

British American Tobacco (BAT) has launched its Glo device in South Korea, joining Philip Morris International (PMI)'s iQOS in what could be a lively market for heated tobacco...

Big Tobacco factories switch production from cigarettes to HnB as demand rises

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 10th August 2017 || Business briefing |

Asia

EU

Europe

Germany

Greece

Japan

Romania

Russia

Switzerland

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

Increasing demand for smoke-free products is leading many tobacco companies to open new facilities for heat-not-burn manufacturing – in some cases, even replacing...

FDA squeeze on nicotine in combustibles could hasten Big Tobacco move to HnB

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 3rd August 2017 || Business briefing |

North America

United States

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

A move by the US FDA to reduce the nicotine content in cigarettes to non-addictive levels could encourage Big Tobacco to put yet more effort into...

E-cigs are Italians’ favourite smoking cessation aid – but most use nothing

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 3rd August 2017 || Business briefing |

Europe

Italy

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

More than a tenth of Italians trying to give up smoking (10.7%) use e-cigarettes to help them – more than any other cessation aids – but the vast majority use no aid at...

BAT’s $49bn Reynolds takeover is on – with big reduced-risk potential

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 20th July 2017 || Business briefing |

North America

UK

UK

United States

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

The $49.4bn takeover of Reynolds American by British American Tobacco (BAT) is set to go through next week after being approved by shareholders of both...

Korean tobacco giant prepares to enter competitive HnB market

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 5th July 2017 || Business briefing |

Asia

South Korea

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

South Korea’s largest tobacco manufacturer, KT&G, is to start selling a new heat-not-burn (HnB) product, in direct competition with PMI’s iQOS and BAT’s Glo...

New studies examine HnB’s nicotine delivery and consumer reactions

Written by Marc Beishon || 21st June 2017 || Business briefing |

Asia

Japan

North America

United States

Heated tobacco

Business briefing

New research shines a little light on how Japanese consumers are reacting to iQOS, and how HnB products compare with both combustibles and e-cigarettes on the crucial question of nicotine...