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[Canada] Day 63: Smooth Character

Today the trial met a fourth president, who was only one of many executives rotated through the company while it was owned by RJR-International. His name is Peter J. Hoult, and he worked at RJR-Macdonald for a total of seven years in the decade between
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
added Sep 28, 2012 11:46
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[Canada] Day 67: Under foreign influence

Mr. Hoult is a former heavy-weight in the former RJ-Reynolds empire. He is the one-time marketing boss for RJR-Macdonald (1979-1983), president of RJR-Macdonald (1987-88) and executive vice president for RJ-Reynolds USA operations (1988-89).
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
added Oct 6, 2012 18:18
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[Canada] Day 64: Marketing and Controversy

witness was Peter J. Hoult, who is both a former president of RJR-Macdonald (now JTI-Macdonald) and a former senior marketing executive with other branches of the now-reformulated Reynolds tobacco empire. His testimony was a whirl-wind tour of major theme
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
added Oct 2, 2012 12:13
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[Canada] Day 59: The bench scientist before the bench

(Oh yes, it might have helped that Mr. Howie was well prepared for this session -- he said he had spent 20 days with JTI's lawyers preparing for this testimony.) Montreal is a long way from Winston Salem Mr. Howie arrived at RJR-Macdonald in 1974
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
added Sep 21, 2012 14:00
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[Canada] Day 57: Quebec's homegrown tobacco boss

Today the focus shifted to JTI-Macdonald, the Canadian subsidiary of Japan Tobacco. They began at the top by calling as their first witness the president of the company, Mr. Michel Poirier.
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
added Sep 19, 2012 13:20
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Canadian tobacco company fights to stop documents being used in historic trial

Tobacco companies tell historic trial: Smokers have only themselves to blame
Global Television (ca)
added May 13, 2012 21:10
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[Canada] Day 58: Japan Tobacco's Americas President

Today's testimony began more or less where it had left off the day before - with the introduction of promotional material from JTI-Macdonald's Extreme Sports Series. (Exhibit 573 and 573a)
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
added Sep 20, 2012 14:42
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[Canada] Government asks court to toss out challenge over cigarette pack warnings

JTI-Macdonald objected to health warnings
Ottawa (Ont) Citizen (ca)
added Nov 22, 2012 12:44
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[Canada] Day 62: "Trying to put it into perspective"

Over the past week, plaintiff lawyer André Lespérance has entered more than 60 exhibits pulled from the scientific archives of RJR-Macdonald. On most of these, Mr. Howie was asked for his knowledge about the events described in them, or about the finding
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
added Sep 27, 2012 14:44
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[Canada] Day 65: The inert chemist

he witness was Dr. John Hood, a 62 year old chemist who got his first post-university job in 1977 at RJR-Macdonald. Let's just say the day could have done with a little chemistry. Answers devoid of content delivered in a voice devoid of inflection result
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
added Oct 3, 2012 16:23
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