This 2011 file photo shows workers at the Petaling Jaya factory.
KUALA LUMPUR: British American Tobacco (M) Bhd (BAT) will cease its manufacturing operations in the country under an operations restructuring that will see it sourcing tobacco products for the domestic market from other British American Tobacco group factories regionally.
The tobacco firm – whose products include Dunhill, Peter Stuyvesant, Pall Mall and Benson & Hedges – said its unit Tobacco Importers and Manufacturers Sdn Bhd, which manufactures tobacco products and semi-finished goods (such as processed tobacco) at its facility in Jalan Universiti, Petaling Jaya, would wind down its factory operations in stages.
The process was targeted to be completed by the second ha…
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