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BAT Uzbekistan slashes cigarette output 8.6%  

Jump to full article: Interfax Russia (ru), 2003-11-13

Intro:

The Uzbek-British joint venture British American Tobacco Uzbekistan (BAT Uzbekistan) produced 4.83 billion cigarettes in January-September, or 8.6% less than in the same period of 2002, according to official statistics. . . .

BAT Uzbekistan is the tobacco-manufacturing monopoly in Uzbekistan, controlling 64.8% of the local market.

The source accounted the contraction in domestic sales to stiff competition from smuggled tobacco.

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