JEWELL INTERVIEW
June 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLEVERY minute of every day a million smokers light up a cigarette made by BAT and the company's goal is that every one of them is perfect. How does BAT manage this, and at the same time meet its production, technical and environmental challenges when operations are on such a colossal scale ? Mr John Jewell, BAT's head of operations, explains to World Tobacco.Q. You produce 800 billion cigarettes a year with machines capable of making up to 20,000 a minute. How do you ensure quality ?A. At these kind of speeds you can't really "inspect in" quality, ...
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