OREANDA-NEWS. August 13, 2012. Belarus’ privately-owned LLC Tabak-Invest, based in Minsk, increased the output of tobaccos by 10.8% in January-July 2012 to 3.772 billion pieces, an official with Belgospischeprom concern told reporters.

In June alone the company produced 626.350 million cigarette units, 3.1 times as much as in July 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 77% of the Tabak-Invest output in January-July 2012 with 2.905 billion units (down 0.7% on the year), and Imperial Tobacco Group brands accounted for 7.26% with 0.274 billion units (down 21% on the year). Tabak-Invest’s own Korona brand output accounted for 15.74% of the overall output – 0.594 billion, up 11.84 percentage points.

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