OREANDA-NEWS. October 18, 2012. Belarus’ privately-owned LLC Tabak-Invest, based in Minsk, increased the output of tobaccos by 0.6% in January-September 2012 to 4.981 billion pieces, an official with Belgospischeprom concern told.

In September alone the company produced 597.652 million cigarette units, 35.5% down on the year.

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 78.8% of the Tabak-Invest output in January-September 2012 with 3.925 billion units (down 8.5% on the year), and Imperial Tobacco Group brands accounted for 8.5% with 0.423 billion units (down 6.2% on the year). Tabak-Invest’s own Korona brand output accounted for 12.7% of the overall output – 0.632 billion, up 8.5 percentage points.

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