Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. European tobacco giant Altadis was the biggest mover in the credit derivatives markets on Thursday, after ...

Altadis has hired three investment banks to advise it after the Franco-Spanish tobacco group received an approach from Imperial Tobacco, a source familiar with the situation said on Tuesday. The ...

A merger in the tobacco industry will send some Fort Lauderdale jobs up in smoke. Commonwealth-Altadis, a tobacco sales and distribution company, has notified state officials that it will lay off 150 ...

Simply sign up to the European companies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The board of Altadis, the Franco-Spanish maker of Gauloises cigarettes, has proposed a radical restructuring ...

Britain's Imperial Tobacco agreed to buy Franco-Spanish rival Altadis for 12.6 billion euros ($17.4 billion) on Wednesday in a deal that will see it jump to No 2 from 4 in Europe's cigarette industry.

Imperial Tobacco will have to pay a lot more than it had originally hoped to acquire its Franco-Spanish rival, Altadis, but its plan to consolidate its position and push further into Europe, following ...

Imperial Tobacco agreed to buy Franco-Spanish rival Altadis on Wednesday in a 16.2 billion euro ($22.4 billion) deal, strengthening its position as the world's fourth-largest cigarette group. The deal ...

After months of speculation, Imperial Tobacco is finally going ahead with an offer for Spanish rival Altadis. The €45-a-share ($60) approach, although unsolicited, is friendly in nature -- at ...

French-Spanish tobacco firm Altadis confirmed it has successfully acquired 80 percent of the shares in Régie des Tabacs du Maroc of Morocco (RTM) from the Moroccan government, for a total cash amount ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Commonwealth-Altadis Inc. is flexing its marketing muscle with new packaging innovation and a $100-million investment in one of its core cigarette brands. During a webcast ...