Monday, February 23, 2009

New version of Marlboro cigarettes

The new version, called the Marlboro cigarettes Special Blend will be sold only packages in supermarkets from 19 November to the end of the year. Company for the first time, is aimed at "creating disturbances in the market among the loyal Marlboro Cigarettes smokers, as well as" konkurentososobnyh "smokers" - said Billy Ebshou, media manager of Philip Morris.
Advertising support new varieties of cigarettes is not available, although the company is going to distribute them and direct postal delivery, through the trade press and promotion in the field of sales. Mr. Ebshou said that the Philip Morris company has no plans to sell the new cigarettes in periods other than the November-December. Marlboro Cigarettes - the best in the country for sales. Last year, they held 37.7% market share, alleged the tobacco industry in the research journal The Maxwell Report.
"They worked on a consistent line of brand extension" - said Marc Cohen, Goldman Sachs analyst company. Last year the company produced cigarettes Philip Morris Marlboro Milds, something in between Marlboro Menthols and Marlboro Light Menthols. Although Mr. Cohen is not familiar with the taste of Marlboro Special Blend, he said that "not a bad idea. This is one way of adding something special."
New cigarette Marlboro Special Blends made of different from the normally used for Marlboro Cigarettes blends will be sold as usual, and in lightweight versions in a totally black package. Packing conventional cigarettes taste will profigachena krasnenkimi same red letters and "M" and the triangle in the center, and a leaner version of the "M" and the triangle in the center will be gold, "- said Mr. Ebshou.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

American Tobacco cigarettes Vogue

The efforts of British American Tobacco cigarette Vogue Cigarettes firmly linked in the minds of smoking with subtle way lady, secular lions. Until two years ago, this brand image helped retain the position of leader. And then it turned out that the classic style Vogue Cigarettes - the reason for the refusal of young buyers of this brand of cigarettes. From the effectiveness of the BAT on restarts Vogue Cigarettes will determine whether the brand will repeat the fate of Kent, who became the market leader after brand, or "Java Gold," not even uvelichivshey sales.

Rebrendingom Vogue company BAT agreed not to engage in idle traction to the glamour. Segment cigarettes super slims (thin cigarettes with a diameter of about 4.5 mm) was evolving rapidly. According to estimates of industry analysts Internet portal Russian tobacco "if last year in Russia were sold 6.27 billion cigarettes class super slims, this year may be weaker sex Trump has 9.5 billion pieces. On the heels BAT, the leader segment occurred uncompromising competitors. For example, Esse cigarettes produced by the Korean company Korea Tobacco & Ginsen, for a year and a half almost caught up with the Brits in the physical volume of sales in Russia.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Is Cigarette Tax a problem?

I've been reading and hearing a lot of opinions about the extra dollar per pack on cigarettes and it reminds me of what we were taught in school about how America first became a country of its own. The English were charging too much tax on tea and there was a term called taxation without representation.
Shouldn't we tax hamburgers, French fries, doughnuts and candy bars, and anything else fattening? Then we can tax things with too much salt or caffeine.
Do you see where this is going? You can't fairly tax one thing more than another, and the real problem is the budget and the lack of revenue and it's not fair to pick one group of the population to bail out the rest.
The government can't manage the budget with the taxes they have now and can't cut anymore then raise taxes on everything evenly.