帝国烟草在东欧及美国的销量疲软

    帝国烟草在东欧及美国的销量疲软

    欧洲最大的烟草公司帝国烟草集团预计，由于东欧部分地区、美国和西班牙的需求疲软，其上半年的卷烟销量出现滑坡。

    3月23日，位于英格兰布里斯托尔的帝国烟草集团在一份声明中说，此外还由于受到中东供应网络瓦解的损害，截至3月31日的6个月期间的销量将下滑大约4%。据这份声明说，销量将在下半年稳定下来。

    帝国烟草公司在2月份说，截至9月份的财政年度的卷烟销量将下滑2%。2008年因接管阿塔迪斯而取得的Fortuna牌卷烟的制造商帝国烟草公司，于去年将西班牙大多数品牌的价格每包提高了15%。因为西班牙的销量减少了10%。

    3月23日，帝国烟草公司说，自公司上一次在2月初进行更新以来，商务环境并没有发生变化。据声明说，公司的细切烟业务，比如英国的金叶（Gold Leaf）和金色弗吉尼亚黄（Golden Virginia Yellow），以及德国的Drum和Van Nelle，在上半年的销量将增长约10%。

    在3月23日早10点的伦敦交易中，帝国烟草公司股票涨16便士，上涨0.8%，达到2066便士，使制造威狮、大卫杜夫和JPS等卷烟品牌的帝国烟草公司的市值达到210亿英镑（合320亿美元）。

    Imperial Tobacco Sees Weaker Volumes on Eastern Europe, U.S.

    March 23 (Bloomberg)

    Imperial Tobacco Group Plc, Europe's biggest tobacco company, forecast a drop in first-half cigarette volumes because of weak demand in parts of eastern Europe, the U.S. and Spain.

    Selling quantities for the six-month period ending March 31 will decline by about 4 percent, also hurt by disruption to supply networks in the Middle East, the Bristol, England-based company said today in a statement. Volumes will stabilize in the second half, according to the statement.

    Last month, Imperial Tobacco said cigarette volumes for the fiscal year ending September would slide 2 percent. The maker of the Fortuna brand, acquired in the 2008 takeover of Altadis, raised prices for most brands in Spain by 15 percent per pack last year as selling quantities in the country fell 10 percent.

    Business conditions haven't changed since the company's last update at the beginning of February, Imperial Tobacco said today. The company's fine cut tobacco businesses, such as Gold Leaf and Golden Virginia Yellow in the U.K. and Drum and Van Nelle in Germany, will post first-half volume growth of about 10 percent, according to the statement.

    Imperial Tobacco rose 16 pence, or 0.8 percent, to 2,066 pence at 10 a.m. in London trading, valuing the maker of West, Davidoff and JPS cigarettes at 21 billion pounds ($32 billion).