CROATIAN CIGARETTE MAKER BUYS 600 TONNES OF BOSNIAN TOBACCO A YEAR

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (June 13,2008) - The Croatian tobacco factory from Rovinj (TDR) buys approximately 600 tonnes of tobacco from Bosnia a year, and the value of that purchase amounts to around 2 million Euros.

Hosting a group of Bosnian reporters at the factory, CEO Davor Tomaskovic said that TDR’s cigarette sales in the market grow by three to seven per cent a year, and the company’s market share in the Southeastern Europe is higher than 27 per cent.

TDR has operated in Bosnia since 1997 and has seven distributors there. The Bosnian cigarette market is estimated to be worth 350 million Euros, and around 150 million Euros of that belongs to the Rovinj factory.
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