Jump to full article: Zambia Daily Mail (zm), 2008-06-26
Author: KANYANTA KATONGO
Intro: BRITISH American Tobacco has lost K300 million in illicit inflows of sweet menthol cigarettes in Northern Province.
BAT managing director, Lovemore Manatsa said there was an illegal inflow of 110 cases monthly of the sweet menthol cigarettes in the province.
He said this translated into K300 million in the revenue losses to BAT, Government and other legitimate players in the market.
He disclosed this in an interview in Lusaka yesterday.
Mr Manatsa said the illicit inflows also made it difficult for the legitimate players to gauge the true size of the cigarette market in Zambia.
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