OREANDA-NEWS. September 21, 2012. Belarus’ Grodno-based Neman tobacco factory increased cigarette output 15.4% on the year in January-August 2012 to 17.48 billion units, a Neman administration representative told.

Production under contracts with British-American Tobacco Trading Company reached 3.38 billion units, up 17.6%.

Production under contracts with Japan Tobacco International amounted to 370 million units, up 6.7%; Tobacco International Enterprises Ltd – 0.05 billion units, down 71.5%.

For the home market the company produced 17.24 billion units, up 16.2%.

Cigarette exports totalled 346 million units (up 120%) to the tune of USD 3.2 million (up 2.1 times).

The company exports cigarettes to Lithuania, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and the Middle East.

Neman was founded in 1861 and transformed into a joint-stock company with all shares controlled by the state in December 2007.