Daily Clove Cigarettes News Update
Jakarta-based agency SemutApi has created what its labeled the “first digitally interactive out of home advertising in Indonesia.” That may be true but it’s not the first worldwide. Anyway, the work is for…OMG…cigarette maker Djarum Super and is called The Bro & Cuy Super Show.
As art director Aria Gorba Hamdani describes, the work is “about [...]
PT Bentoel Prima, the fourth largest cigarette producer in the country, has restructured its focus toward efficiency as the global economy worsens in the wake of the U.S. financial crisis, an executive says.
Bentoel corporate secretary Satrija Budi Wibawa said his company would be focusing on the distribution of main products and expanding its market, and [...]
Indeed, you made a great deal of your public commitment to changing Philip Morris’ marketing practices, claiming that Philip Morris was a reformed company and that it would no longer engage in marketing practices that had been identified as appealing to youth. . . .
Judge Kessler ordered Philip Morris USA to desist from using misleading [...]
Rokok is cigarettes, kretek is clove flavored, so rokok kretek means clove flavored cigarettes. For many millions Javanese and Indonesians, kretek is enjoyable companion, tasteful, it gives a feeling of relief & relaxation and its price is nothing compare to the comfort given.
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In restaurants, pubs, bars, discotheques, public buildings and in many other places [...]
PT Bentoel Internasional Investama, Indonesia’s third-largest publicly traded cigarette maker, plans to invest 800 billion rupiah ( million) this year to build new plants, the Jakarta Post reported.
The new cigarette plants will use tobacco bought from Brazil, India, China, Greece, Turkey, U.S. and Indonesia, the newspaper reported, citing Satrija Budi Wibawa, corporate secretary of the [...]
PT Gudang Garam, the country’s second largest cigarette producer, knows full well its customers, mostly in the middle to low-income demographic, will not jump ship quite so easily to other cigarette brands or even think of quitting.
But netting new customers is much harder for Gudang Garam than maintaining their existing ones, as proven when the [...]
U.S. singing star Alicia Keys has set a positive example that should be followed by musicians and entertainers worldwide by demanding the withdrawal of tobacco industry sponsorship of her July 31 concert in Jakarta, Indonesia. We applaud Ms. Keys for taking quick action to disassociate herself from the tobacco industry and to prevent her name, [...]
PT Gudang Garam, Indonesia’s second- largest cigarette maker, surged the most in more than nine years on speculation the company may be sold after its chairman died.
Gudang Garam jumped 19 percent to close at 6,200 rupiah in Jakarta, the biggest gain since Nov. 5, 1998. Rachman Halim, the company’s chairman, died at Mount Elizabeth Hospital [...]
International public health advocates are calling on U.S. singing star Alicia Keys to withdraw tobacco industry sponsorship of her July 31 concert in Jakarta, Indonesia, and are condemning tobacco giant Philip Morris International for sponsoring the concert as a way of marketing cigarettes to children.
The concert is being sponsored and heavily advertised by Philip Morris [...]
Keys is due to perform on Tuesday the 31st of July in Jakarta, Indonesia and posters were put up around the city to promote her ‘As I Am’ concert.
Campaigning organisation Tobacco Free Kids say the adverts for the concert act as a billboard for tobacco firm Philip Morris International and its Indonesian subsidary, Sampoerna.
After this [...]
I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven’t had time for tobacco since.
— Arturo Toscanini
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