Imperial Tobacco Group News

The finance director of Aggreko, the temporary power supplier, carried off the top prize at last night's FDs' Excellence Awards.

One of the biggest concerns facing investors regarding the tobacco companies is falling cigarette consumption, and so they hence are skeptical to assign much if any growth to these companies.

Imperial Tobacco , the Bristol-based FTSE-100 company, has criticised the UK government's consultation on smoking regulation as "anti-business". Alison Cooper, the 46-year-old cigar-smoking chief executive of the world's fourth-largest cigarette company by market share, said she had written to the government for clarification about the department ... (more)

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Imperial Tobacco, the world's No. 4 cigarette group set a 500 million pound share buyback and said it saw a return to sales growth as the West and Gauloises cigarette maker put its 2011 problems behind it.

Imperial Tobacco, the world's No 4 cigarette group, was upbeat for 2012 as it set a 500 million pound share buyback and saw a return to sales growth as the West and Gauloises cigarette maker put its 2011 problems behind it.

Asian shares inched up on Tuesday as Australia's larger-than-expected rate cut and firm Chinese factory data boosted Australian equities, but concerns about the U.S. economy and the euro zone capped prices in holiday-thinned trade.