Exec: Tobacco industry must improve quality to prepare for EU competition

Artur Dmochowski, director general of the Polish Tobacco Industry Society, remarked that the local market is big enough to assure profits to all present producers, but added that the industry must improve the quality of its product to prepare for stiffer competition after Poland's accession to the European Union. He attributed the quality of the cigarettes to the limited brands of tobacco grown by Polish farmers. Philip Morris dominates the Polish tobacco market with 36% share, followed by Germany's Reemtsma with 24.9%. (Prawo i Gospodarka, page 4)