OREANDA-NEWS. December 4, 2012. Belarus’ Grodno-based Neman tobacco factory increased cigarette output 9.8% on the year in January-October 2012 to 21.9 billion units, a Neman administration representative told.

Production under contracts with British-American Tobacco Trading Company reached 4.25 billion units, up 14.7%.

Production under contracts with Japan Tobacco International amounted to 480 million units, down 1%; Tobacco International Enterprises Ltd – 0.08 billion units, down 68%.

For the home market the company produced 21.9 billion units, up 14.1%.

Cigarette exports totalled 670 million units (up 3.4 times) to the tune of USD 6.2 million (up 3.2 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. Neman has its cigarette production quota for 2012 raised to 25.5 billion units.