• The events offered the company a sales opportunity because supply disruptions led Japan Tobacco Inc.

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  • The company faces stiff competition from rivals like British American Tobacco and Japan Tobacco.

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  • Licensed from Japan Tobacco in 2004, JTT-705 is trailing torcetrapib by at least two years.

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  • Japan Tobacco hopes that growing such high-margin brands will boost its profits in Europe.

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  • In China, the world's biggest market by volume, Japan Tobacco cannot get past a state-run monopoly.

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  • Shortly afterwards, Japan Tobacco bought RJR Nabisco's international business, and France's Seita and Spain's Tabacalera unveiled a tie-up.

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  • Japan Tobacco now has the capacity to make only 70 billion cigarettes a year at its plant in St.

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  • To boost tobacco profits, therefore, Japan Tobacco is banking on higher revenue overseas.

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  • Philip Morris International competes with British American Tobacco, Japan Tobacco and Imperial Tobacco Group plc in its various geographical segments.

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  • Although they are still looking over the details, Japan Tobacco's executives say they have a strong interest in making a bid.

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  • Japan Tobacco has been especially aggressive, therefore, in Russia, the world's fourth-biggest market, where smokers lit up 300 billion cigarettes in 2002.

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  • Philip Morris International and British American Tobacco witnessed significant market share growth post March at the cost of Japan Tobacco which saw temporary supply disruptions.

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  • NTT, Japan Tobacco and other companies as collateral for the bonds.

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  • State-controlled Japan Tobacco (No. 18) puffed up sales by 12.8%.

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  • Gallagher also owns tobacco business in Sweden and Austria, which would position Japan Tobacco for an assault from the western flank on the still smoking markets of Eastern Europe.

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  • Though Japan Tobacco has more than two-thirds of the Japanese cigarette market--Japanese are still heavy smokers, and its Mild Seven brand is the Japanese salaryman's emblematic gasper--sales are slowing.

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  • The party fought tooth and nail to keep Virginia tobacco out of Japan, so that off-budget subsidies could be fed to tobacco-growing farmers from Japan Tobacco, the government-owned cigarette monopoly.

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  • Japan Tobacco, which ranks at No. 312 on Forbes list of the world's 2, 000 largest public companies, is already the third-largest tobacco company, behind Philip Morris and British American Tobacco (BAT).

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Gallaher bought Russian cigarette maker Liggett-Ducat in 2000, and the acquisition would leapfrog Japan Tobacco over Altria Group 's Philip Morris into the No. 1 spot in the Russian market, with a 34% market share .

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  • The firm, warning of the "considerable cost" involved in an ongoing legal challenge to European Union tobacco controls, said it had, with Philip Morris and Japan Tobacco, drawn up a set of cigarette marketing standards "in recognition of society's concerns".

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  • Japan Tobacco, which ranks at No. 312 on Forbes list of the world's 2, 000 largest public companies, is already the third-largest tobacco company, behind Philip Morris and British American Tobacco (amex: BTI - news - people ) (BAT).

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  • The newly independent Philip Morris International sells tobacco products in the international markets while Altria maintains its operations in the US. Philip Morris International competes with British American Tobacco , Japan Tobacco and Imperial Tobacco Group plc in its various geographical segments.

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  • Gallaher bought Russian cigarette maker Liggett-Ducat in 2000, and the acquisition would leapfrog Japan Tobacco over Altria Group 's (nyse: MO - news - people ) Philip Morris into the No. 1 spot in the Russian market, with a 34% market share .

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  • Mr Noda's ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) had recently proposed slapping another two yen tax on cigarettes and selling down the government's stake in Japan Tobacco, which many people saw as a sensible way for a debt-strapped government to help pay the huge costs of post-tsunami reconstruction.

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