ITC, GPI shut cigarette plants
New Delhi, Dec 2, PTI:
Tobacco majors ITC and Godfrey Phillips India (GPI) have stopped production of cigarettes in view of uncertainty over the sort of pictorial warnings that needed to be carried on tobacco products starting this month.
The companies have said there was no clarity on types of warnings to be carried on the packages.
ITC has stopped production at all five units located across India. Confirming the development an ITC spokesperson said “units (for making cigarettes) are shut because of the ambiguity in pictorial warnings to be carried from December 1 onwards.”
Similarly, production has been stalled since December 1 onwards at GPI’s two units in India.
