Ongoing RRP volume growth supported by a Ploom X device price reduction. The Ploom X international expansion is underway. On a reverse P/E estimate, Japan Tobacco's valuation looks full. BAT is ...

Japan Tobacco is the third-largest player in a highly concentrated tobacco industry, behind British American Tobacco and Philip Morris. Compared to its peers, at 15x earnings, Japan Tobacco's ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - British American Tobacco will expand sales of its "glo" tobacco-heating device to Tokyo and Osaka from July and roll it out nationwide by year-end, intensifying a battle with Philip ...

British American Tobacco PLC made a $47 billion takeover offer to buy the 58% of Reynolds American it has yet to acquire, to create the world's largest tobacco company. WSJ's Lee Hawkins explains. “We ...

TOKYO – Two tobacco giants are seeing strong demand for their reboots of the e-cigarette in Japan, with Philip Morris International twice postponing a nationwide rollout and Japan Tobacco suspending ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Tobacco Inc (2914.T) has agreed to pay $5 billion (3.3 billion pounds) for Reynolds American Inc's (RAI.N) premium Natural American Spirit tobacco brand outside the United ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Marlboro maker Philip Morris International says its e-cigarette has rapidly captured close to 3 percent of Japanese tobacco sales, making inroads into a market Japan Tobacco (JT) ...

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan Tobacco Inc <2914.T> said on Wednesday it hoped to catch up with Philip Morris International Inc in smokeless tobacco by expanding the number of smoke-free restaurants and ...

One of the world's biggest tobacco companies aims to make billions of pounds from the diseases caused by cigarette smoking through deals with biotech companies for the exclusive rights to market ...

Competition to sate Japanese nicotine addicts is heating up. Philip Morris International Inc. and Japan Tobacco Inc. have rolled out products that are heated -- not burned -- in battery-charged ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Tobacco Inc <2914.T> on Thursday unveiled two "heat-not-burn" products, as it races against market leader Philip Morris International Inc for a larger share of the vaping space ...