electronic cigarettes

General Merchandise/HBC

This Year’s Best New Product Contest Finalists Are …

Polls open for retailers to elect winners for 2016 in 26 categories

Tobacco

6 Retail Tobacco Insights From Wells Fargo’s ‘Tobacco Talk’ Survey

Retailer responses suggest key winners in Newport, Marlboro, Natural American Spirit and Copenhagen in smokeless. Key losers included ITG Brands and Skoal, with Pall Mall on “the negative watch list.”

Four have been filed by companies or trade associations in the vapor segment

Success of test in the Carolinas will determine whether to launch product nationally

Concerns and predictions about FDA’s landmark tobacco regulations

Tight margins, flat sales a challenge for the category

What retailers and customers are saying about Philip Morris’ heat-not-burn product

Jeff Stier’s experience meeting with the OMB about the FDA ‘deeming’ regs

VERC’s experience with channel-specific flavor bans

V2 says poll supports public health claims

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