Founded in 1902, British American Tobacco (BAT) is one of the largest tobacco producers in the world. It owns numerous cigarette brands, including Pall Mall, Lucky Strike, Winfield and Vogue.
Like Philip Morris International, BAT moved into vaping several years ago through the products in its Vype range.
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BAT Subsidiary Working on Potential COVID-19 Vaccine
Kentucky BioProcessing (KBP), an American subsidiary of the British tobacco company BAT, is working on a potential vaccine against COVID-19, it was announced in...
Hungary: A Predicted Drop in E-Liquid Prices
Coming into effect on the 1st of March, a lower excise tax on nicotine-containing e-liquids has dropped prices from HUF 55 per ml, to...
BAT raises cigarette prices in Kenya
Last November, the Finance Act 2019 raised excise duty charged on cigarettes by 14.1%. The levy per mille (thousand sticks) on filtered cigarettes rose...
UK: E-Cig Businesses Banned from Advertising on Instagram
In line with the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), Rule 22.12 of the UK CAP Code forbids the promotion of unlicensed nicotine-containing e-cigarettes in...
BAT Banned From Advertising its E-Cigs on Instagram
Last week, the ASA directed BAT to remove all ads related to Vype on Instagram, including some influencers' accounts. The decision came after the...
BAT Launches Glo Sens in Korea
In South Korea, the vaping market is currently dominated by local tobacco giant KT&G and global firm Philip Morris (PMI), but BAT hopes that...
Tobacco Giant Reynolds Launches Flavoured Nicotine Lozenges
Reynolds is the second-largest cigarette enterprise in the US and is behind brands like Camel, Kent, and Natural American Spirit. Last Wednesday, the company...
BAT Launches New High-Tech Vaporizer in the U.K.
The Vype iSwitch is said to deliver nicotine more efficiently, and comes out of BAT’s $2.5 billion research drive into smoking alternatives. “There are...
