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BY ALAN OSBORN
1902-1912

British American Tobacco was created on September 29th 1902 as a joint venture between Imperial Tobacco Company of the UK and the American Tobacco Company of the US following a fierce trade war. The parent companies agreed not to trade in each other’s domestic territory and to assign trademarks, export businesses and overseas subsidiaries to the joint venture.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
DaimlerChrysler Canada Inc. has recently won a court judgment in New York to begin seizing assets to recover US$330 million from Castor Holdings Ltd., a defunct Montreal-based holding company and real estate lender formerly headed by Wolfgang Stolzenberg, a German-Canadian businessman suspected of orchestrating one of Canada’s most colossal fraud scams.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN publishers will be forced into bankruptcy if they do not quickly get paid the money owed to them by the distribution arm of General Publishing Co. Ltd, owner of Stoddart Publishing and House of Anansi Press, according to a recent Ontario Superior Court document.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S biggest publishers have been approached by representatives of the eBay Canada auction web site, asking them to use their Internet platform to sell their books directly to consumers.

Its move comes as e-commerce giant Amazon.com is finalising plans to launch a service this summer that is specifically tailored for Canadian readers, instead of them using a standard north American site.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ROTHMANS, Benson & Hedges Inc. has filed a lawsuit against the Saskatchewan provincial government, arguing that the province’s recent Tobacco Control Act, which bans the display in shops of tobacco products, is unconstitutional under Canadian federal law.

The case filed in the prairie province’s Court of Queen’s Bench, claims that the legislation that came into effect on March 11, 2002, violates Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms and federal tobacco legislation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ASK most people what they do with maple syrup and the majority will reply they use it to drizzle over pancakes in the morning. Maple syrup producers in Quebec, the world’s leading producer of the sweet treat, are trying to change that.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DATABASE providing information about workplace smoking issues has been set up by the International Labour Organisation. It includes descriptions of relevant legislation, journal articles, books, government documents, reports, kits, case law, training materials, and analysis, including notes on productivity costs caused by tobacco usage.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN consultancies Wardrop Engineering and Micon International are to offer joint advice on mining and metallurgical projects, from initial resource estimation, feasibility studies and operational analysis, to site closure. The two companies have decided they can work well together as their areas of expertise dovetail, rather than duplicate each other’s.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
CANADIAN casual clothing retailer Au Coton Inc has announced that it is insolvent and will be restructured under bankruptcy legislation, owing creditors more than CAN$23 million.

It is not yet confirmed how many of the 140 stores across the country will be affected.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has banned on the EU of jelly mini-cups containing the food additive konjac (E 425), which take time to dissolve and have lead to the deaths of several American and Canadian children through choking.…