Duncan Cunningham, corporate affairs director at Imperial Brands, tells Tom Gockelen-Kozlowski how vaping will play a crucial role post-menthol ban. “If we think about the arrival of the menthol ban next May, vaping will have a...
If you judged the category purely by the activity of the major tobacco suppliers – and many retailers will be doing exactly that – then it is the pods market where the biggest range of innovation...
JTI's head of reduced risk products is one of the most influential people in the British vaping market. In this exclusive interview, below, he discusses how convenience retailers can build a successful vaping and next generation...
Vape shops have got an image problem. In many ways these battlegrounds in the war against smoking should be cherished as places where brothers, wives, best friends and colleagues go to kick the habit. A poll...
Philip Morris MD Peter Nixon tells Andy Marino why the company’s heat-not-burn product is about to take off in 2020. Peter Nixon is the MD of Philip Morris, part of PMI, the international tobacco company established...
John Dunne, director of the UK Vaping Industry Association, tells Tom Gockelen-Kozlowski how he has spent the last year fighting against the scare stories which have surrounded vaping “We monitor consumer perspectives on vaping and have...
Imperial Brands has appointed a new CEO, Stefan Bomhard, at what it describes as a “significant point in [its] development”. Bomhard arrives from UK car dealership firm Inchcape having also held senior roles at Cadbury, Burger...
In less than five months’ time, independent retailers will be faced with the latest round of tobacco regulation to hit the industry. What does the ban mean for you? How are independent retailers preparing? Tom Gockelen-Kozlowski...
At our first Vape Business Conference last summer Nick Geens of Japan Tobacco International (JTI), whose UK headquarters are in leafy Weybridge, presented a memorable keynote address that mapped out the extent of the smoking territory...
Another week and more questionable reporting of the health effects of e-cigarettes: this time (or, once again?) from the Daily Mail. The newspaper posted a story earlier today (07/01/2019) with this rather disturbing headline: Vapers who...
If your store hasn't yet taken advantage of the vaping opportunity then it isn't too late. In fact there are four big dates for the diary in 2020, making now the perfect time to embrace the...
In the first installment of his new regular column for Vape Business, Amrit Singh Pahal explains why every retailer needs to be preparing for the ban on menthol cigarettes in May. In my view the menthol...
Ahead of its launch, the Vape Business team spoke to stores across the UK to find out how businesses of every type are benefiting from the opportunity vaping presents. Here, five top retailers give their advice...
David Waterfield, BAT EMEA Managing Director, outlines his vision of the future of vaping to Andy Marino Vape Business has travelled across London to interview David Waterfield, the new Managing Director of British American Tobacco (BAT)...
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