SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — British American Tobacco (BAT) Korea said Thursday it will increase the ratio of non-combustible cigarette products to 50 percent by 2030 to boost sales amid regulations and health concerns over smoking. The British tobacco company has sold the heat-not-burn glo tobacco heating product (THP) series in the Korean market [...]
BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNCR), a global leader and innovator of cloud, messaging, digital and IoT products, today announced that it is launching a multi-country pilot of the Synchronoss Digital Experience Platform (DXP) for British American Tobacco (BAT), a leading, multi-category consumer goods company providing tobacco and nicotine products to millions of adult [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s parliament passed a bill Thursday to raise the tax on heat-not-burn (HNB) e-cigarette products amid a lingering dispute over whether they should be treated differently from conventional cigarettes. The revision bill calls for increasing the individual consumption tax rate for HNB tobacco products — such as Phillip [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – British American Tobacco (BAT) will begin sales of its new tobacco heating device in South Korea next week, its local unit said Thursday, joining the race to better grab the expanding market. The new gadget glo is shaped like any other battery-powered cigarette devices, except tobacco sticks called Neostiks, [...]
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Is it a good omen for 2017? Odaesan National Park representatives reported Monday that an albino bat was found during the first park inspection of the year. According to officials, the animal is a mutated version of a greater horseshoe bat (rhinolophus ferrumequinum), a common breed found [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreign tobacco brands failed again to offer their products to Korean soldiers. According to the Ministry of National Defense Welfare Agency, the four tobacco brands that will be added this year were all from KT&G, including This Africa Mola. At this year’s bidding, brands from KT&G, PMI Korea, BAT Korea and JTI Korea [...]