BAT "Hero" of Italian Agriculture

Giovanni Carucci - BAT Italia

Giovanni Carucci

An interesting piece of news, sent out by press agencies and promptly reported by newspapers, is travelling around the peninsula and the islands: British American Tobacco is going to buy twenty million euro's worth of Italian tobacco a year for the next two years.

The announcement was made by the vice president of BAT Italia, Giovanni Carucci, during the Confagricoltura Forum of Taormina, where, if we can believe the newspapers, this man of Big Tobacco seems to have been the absolute protagonist of the event.

Why all the excitement about the purchase of a modest quantity of tobacco, paid at market prices? Twenty million euro corresponds to about 3% of BAT’s turnover in Italy and less than 4% of the Italian tobacco cultivation; in the tobacco market it is only a bit of change. Why is everyone licking the ass of the multinational, and why is no one doing anything for the workers of the production plants that BAT closed, like those in Lecce and in Bologna, whose workers are still in the middle of the street because the company is not keeping its promises? Read more »

New Machinery at Yesmoke

Decouflé cigarette recycling machine at Yesmoke factory

The new two Decouflé DWR 1-2-1, Cigarette recycling machines at Yesmoke factory

While the servants are trying to close it, Yesmoke, occupied by its workers, is growing larger and hiring more people. Starting from today our two new Decouflé DWR recycling machines are operating.

By March we expect to have a new G.D 121 complete production line that will make 10 thousand cigarettes a minute; this line will be added to the two lines already operating and it will increase the manufacturing capacity of the Settimo plant by 50%. Read more »

Yesmoke – The «Anti-Big Tobacco» Cigarette – Full Speed Ahead

Lenin urla: Yesmoke!Today there is a cigarette factory in Italy that is working at top speed, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is hiring new workers, buying new machinery and planning new production plants. Yesmoke is growing slowly in Italy, where Philip Morris, British American Tobacco and Japan Tobacco dictate the rules of the market, but orders arriving from all over the world that have already saturated the plant’s capacity, demonstrate the unlimited possibilities of the «anti-Big Tobacco» cigarette.

As soon as Yesmoke cigarettes came onto the market, growth began that has been almost exponential, an inexhaustible goldmine. But the world is big and Yesmoke is still little, so the Turin Company has already been forced to turn down orders. First Holland, then the Balkans, Iraq and North Africa. In the past months the airport duty-free shops in South Korea and Northern Europe have made requests. There is even a lot of interest in the USA where, in spite of the conflict with Philip Morris and the court sentences in favor of Big Tobacco, Yesmokes can be imported and sold freely by American companies. Read more »

The Market: Fiat Down, Marchionne Up (with Philip Morris)

Sergio Marchionne

Sergio Marchionne, Philip Morris man at the head of Fiat

Fiat stock values are falling but Marchionne’s are rising, with cigarettes, those of Philip Morris. The CEO of the Lingotto is a member of the board of Big Tobacco, and he is also a stockholder. He invests in Philip Morris stocks but not in those of FIAT.

If the quotation of the Turin auto maker has dropped to almost half since the beginning of the year, Philip Morris stocks have risen and its future prospects are promising.

Marchionne has not purchased stocks of the company he directs since 2006. He has not done so even in this period, when the quotations are in free-fall. Other company directors, on the other hand, have taken advantage of the lower prices to buy stock in their companies, like Corrado Passera of Intesa, Paolo Scaroni of ENI, ENEL’s Fulvio Conti and Giovanni Perissinotto of Generali. Read more »

Lecce: Hands off the Manufacturing!

Protesta dei lavoratori Manifattura Tabacchi di Lecce

The workers’ protest at the Manifattura Tabacchi di Lecce - Lecce Tobacco works

“For production reasons dictated by the current international economic context…” this is how British American Tobacco explained its decision to transfer production from its Italian factory in Lecce to Germany.

After the sale in 2004 of the Italian Tobacco Agency - Ente Tabacchi Italiano - to B.A.T., the zeroing out in Italy of cigarette production is being completed with the closure of all 21 ex-E.T.I. factories. Read more »

2009: "A Christmas of War"

At Yesmoke, everybody is looking forward to the abolition of the minimum price of cigarettes.

Sinceri Auguri di Buone Feste

Will Christmas, perhaps, be the occasion for Big Tobacco and its followers to repent for their sins…

Yesmoke "Gold 0.3" – Less nicotine, Tar and ammonia

The production of Yesmoke's new cigarette has begun. The “Gold 0.3s” will be in the tobacco shops in a week, brand new and fresh.

Production of Yesmoke Gold 0.3 cigarette packs

Like the “Red 0.8s” and the “Silver 0.6s”,  the “Gold 0.3s”,  totally without chemical cocktails, have the lowest ammonia content of all the “American blend” cigarettes on the Italian market. Read more »

In Italy, do they smoke Italian fags? Yes, but only "imported" ones

How come cigarettes are produced and new factories are opened in Europe, but not in Italy?

Mappa dell'importazione di sigarette in ItaliaUntil a few years ago, 95% of the cigarettes sold on the Italian market were manufactured in Italy. The Ente Tabacchi Italiano that used to own all the Italian brands even manufactured Marlboros for Philip Morris here, before it was sold to British American Tobacco in 2004.

Today 99% of the cigarettes sold in Italy (including Logista Spa, that handles all the distribution) is the property of a cartel of foreign companies, which have now moved almost all their production into other countries; it is a sector worth 14 billion a year in tax revenues. Read more »

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