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Finsbury International Policy & Regulatory Advisers (Fipra) claims to be “Europe’s leading and most extensive public affairs consultancy network advising clients on a range of government relations and regulatory policy issues”. Over the last 10 years, Fipra has expanded and now operates in over 50 countries in Europe and internationally. From the company website: In Europe, we are the…

Fiedler & Lundgren is a subsidiary of British American Tobacco (BAT). It is based in Sweden and is the country’s second-largest Snus producer, making around 22 million tins of snus per year from its factory in Malmo. It employs some 90 people. It became part of BAT in 2008.45 Its brands are Granit,…

Background Created in 1994, Fetratab (Fédération Européenne des Transformeurs de Tabac) is the European association of tobacco processors.7 Fetratab has been listed on the EU Transparency Register since December 2014, and has indicted the following national tobacco growers associations as members:8 France: LTR Industries S.A.S Greece: HATPI – Hellenic Association of Tobacco Processing Industries and Tobacco Dealers…

Peter Sheridan was listed as the Director and a founding member of The Common Sense Alliance. The Common Sense Alliance was founded in August 2012, at the time when the EU Tobacco Products Directive Revision was being debated and the UK was at the close of its first consultation on Plain Packaging and was gearing up to…

Fernando Domínguez is Premium Cigar Director at Imperial Tobacco since January 2011.36 TobaccoTactics Resources Imperial Tobacco Relevant Link Imperial Tobacco homepage ReferencesHide↑Fipra, About Fipra, company website, 2009, accessed February 2012↑Fipra, What we do:…

Felula SA is a Luxembourg-based law consultancy set up by Serge Estgen. Relationship with the Tobacco Industry In 2014, Felula consulted for Philip Morris International (PMI) on the EU Tobacco Products Directive Revision.37 TobaccoTactics Resources Philip Morris EU Tobacco Products Directive Revision References…

Background According to its website, the Federation of Wholesale Distributors (FWD) is a UK member organisation for wholesalers operating in the grocery and foodservice markets, who supply independent retailers and caterers.38 Additionally, the FWD states that they work with “Ministers, MPs and Government officials to defend and protect members’ business interest against political and regulatory threats.”39 Since early…

The Federation of Independent Retailers (NFRN) (formerly known as National Federation of Retail Newsagents) was founded in 1919 and is one of Europe’s largest retail trade associations with over 15,000 independent news and convenience retailers in membership throughout the UK and Ireland. The organisation presents itself as The voice of the independent retailer. In 2013, as part of it’s…

Peter N. Lee is a statistician and long-term consultant to the tobacco industry.70 Background Lee worked until 1979 for the Tobacco Research Council, after which he became a consultant. He has been frequently funded by tobacco companies, undermining scientific studies linking health risks to tobacco use. He started his own consultancy business in 1984. From 1984 to 1989,…

Pepper Public Affairs is a London-based public relations (PR) and media company. Relationship with the Tobacco Industry Image 1: PMI identifies its target audience, PMI Corporate Affairs Update, February 2012 (slide 39) In 2012 and 2013, Pepper Public Affairs worked with Philip Morris UK.8687 British newspaper The Observer, reported in July 2013 that leaked internal…