OREANDA-NEWS. July 17, 2012. Belarus’ privately-owned LLC Tabak-Invest, based in Minsk, reduced the output of tobaccos by 1.7% in January-June 2012 to 3.146 billion pieces, an official with Belgospischeprom concern told.

In June alone the company produced 580.164 million cigarette units, 3.3 times as much as in June 2011.

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

The company also makes Korona, its own brand revitalized in August 2010.

Production under contracts with JTI accounted for 74.8% of the Tabak-Invest output in January-June 2012 with 2.352 billion units (down 15.8% on the year), and Imperial Tobacco Group brands accounted for 8% with 0.251 billion units (down 14.1% on the year). Tabak-Invest’s own Korona brand output accounted for 17.2% of the overall output – 0.543 billion, 4.7 times as much.

Tabak-Invest had its 2012 production quota cut by 20% to 6.23 billion pieces.