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International Internet Magazine. Baltic States news & analyticsTuesday, 09.02.2010, 16:28
British American Tobacco Latvia shuts down its production plant in Riga
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As Corporation Relations Manager Marita Jansone informed LETA, the plant will be evacuated and handed over to the leasor – the state of Latvia – without any penalties. Cigarettes heretofore made by British American Tobacco Latvia will now be made by other plants in Europe as part of an overall reorganization plan.
In the past two years, the legal cigarette retail market has shrunk by 40 percent, hitting low-price cigarettes particularly hard.
British American Tobacco Latvia is one of Latvia's major taxpayers, paying LVL 40 million in 2008.
Among the brands manufactured in Riga are "Kent" and "Vogue".
The cigarette factory at Miera 58 has been there since 1912, and was formerly called Rigas Tabakas fabrika, before that – Maikapars tabakas fabrika.
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