OREANDA-NEWS. May 13, 2011. Belarus’ privately-owned Tabak-Invest Ltd., based in Minsk, produced 2.523 billion cigarettes in January-April 2011, up 11.3% year-on-year, an official with Belgospischeprom concern stated.

In April, cigarette output fell 22.2% to 447.994 million units.

Tabak-Invest makes Magna, Monte Carlo, Winston, Mild Seven and Camel brands under contracts with JT International (JTI) and West, Golden Gate and Gauloises brands under a license agreement with Imperial Tobacco Group.

The company also makes Korona, its own brand.

Production under contracts with JTI accounted for 88.6% of the Tabak-Invest output in January-April 2011 with 2.235 billion units, and Imperial Tobacco Group brands accounted for 8.4% with 211.296 million units. Tabak-Invest’s own Korona brand output accounted for 3% of the overall output with 76.898 million units.

Winston output amounted to 1.418 billion cigarettes in January-April, up 18.6% on the year. Winston Blue output reached 1.161 billion units, up 16.1%. Monte Carlo brand production reached 730.372 million units, up 20.8%.

Tabak-Invest has an output quota of 7.6 billion cigarettes in 2011, unchanged from 2010.