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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
RICHMOND, Va. — Reynolds American Inc., maker of Camel cigarettes and Grizzly smokeless tobacco, is in talks to buy a Swedish company that helps people stop smoking, a tobacco expert who said he was briefed by people close to the talks told The Associated Press Monday. The second-largest U.S. tobacco company is eyeing Niconovum AB, which sells cigarette replacement products in gum, pouch and...
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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Eddy Elfenbein submits: Tobacco companies are hated by the public but the stocks are very tempting financially. Over the weekend, Barron’s looked at Altria ( MO ): At around 18.50, Altria has one of the lowest price/earnings ratios in the global cigarette industry. It also has one of the highest dividend yields: 7.3%. The stock trades for 10.6 times projected 2009 profits of $1.77 a share and...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
MYSORE: Tobacco growers in Mysore district have threatened to launch an agitation if the Tobacco Board fails to intervene and set right the downward spiral of prices in the market. Addressing a press conference here on Monday, the ...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
A Lagos High Court has dismissed three applications seeking to strike out the names of International Tobacco Company Limited, British American Tobacco Plc and British American Tobacco (investment) Limited from the $21 billion suit instituted by the Lagos State Government and Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria (ERA/FoEN).
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
A newspaper is reporting Reynolds American Inc., maker of Camel cigarettes, is in talks to buy a Swedish company that helps people quit smoking. The Wall Street Journal says the second-largest U.S. tobacco company is eyeing Niconovum AB, which sells such... Reynolds American - Cigarette - Tobacco industry - Tobacco - Wall Street Journal
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The Street (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Reynolds American is in talks to buy a firm that makes products to help people quit smoking, according to reports.
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ABC News (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Report: Reynolds American in talks to buy Swedish maker of smoking-cessation products
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MyDD (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Disclosure: I'm proud to be working with the American Association for Justice to protect patients' rights. With the passage of Health Care Reform in the House, the stakes are rising by the day. As we saw this weekend with the adoption of the Stupak-Pitts amendment, changes to the bill can be made with blinding speed and millions of Americans can lose out in hours. Thanks to a well-funded and decades...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
National Alliance for Tobacco Cessation Promotes Program with Ads, PSAs and Web Resources
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
PETERSBURG, Va., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Star Scientific, Inc. (Nasdaq: STSI) reported today that on November 5, 2009 it received a deficiency letter from NASDAQ staff indicating that the company is not in compliance with the NASDAQ minimum bid rule. The letter noted that for the previous thirty consecutive trading days the company's minimum closing bid price per share had been below the $1.00...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
ALPHARETTA, Ga., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc. (NYSE: SWM) ("Schweitzer-Mauduit" or "the company") today announced that it plans to publicly offer 1.8 million shares of its common stock in an underwritten offering. In addition, the company intends to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 15% of shares sold....
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DealBook (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Reynolds American, the tobacco company, is in talks to buy Niconovum, a Swedish maker of nicotine gum and mouth sprays, Bloomberg News reported.
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Dividend Growth Investor (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Many investors are being sold on the idea of generating income in retirement by solely focusing on fixed income securities. That way they would have a stable income pretty much for life and there is a high likelihood that the principle would be returned intact after the bond matures. The main problem with this strategy is that while the income would remain unchanged over time, its real purchasing...
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gumir | 05/06/2008
Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) informs that on April 16, 2008 on the special trade floor of regional financial center of Almaty (STF RFCA) in the secondary market sector, two deals with common shares KZ1C05500018 (aUTMK) of Ust-Kamenogorskiy titanium-magnesium combine JSC (Ust-Kamenogorsk) were registered. The deals were conducted with 260 shares at the price of KZT 27,000.00 per each one for the