烟草在线据法新社报道编译 著名卷烟品牌高卢金丝(Gauloises)、诺贝尔(Nobel)和福耳图那(Fortuna)的制造商,西班牙最大的卷烟公司阿塔迪斯,周三(6月5日)宣布,由于面临着西班牙的禁烟令以及黑市的快速发展,其在西班牙的卷烟销售低迷,因此该公司将在西班牙裁减近10%的员工。
西欧第三大卷烟制造商阿塔迪斯,将从其在西班牙的1400名员工中裁掉114人,大多数是通过提前退休,以及关闭位于南部城市加的斯(Cadiz)的工厂的方式裁减的,该公司在一份声明中说。
阿塔迪斯说,在过去的四个月中,该集团在西班牙的卷烟销售下滑了40%。
西班牙,作为欧元区第四大经济体,自2011年年中以来一直在收缩,2013年4月的零售额下降了2.6%,这是连续第34个月下滑。
阿塔迪斯烟草公司,是英国的帝国烟草公司的一个分支,将下滑归咎于西班牙的“监管”压力,自2011年1月1日起,西班牙的咖啡馆和餐馆都禁止吸烟。
与此同时,政府强迫提高价格。
根据由辉瑞制药公司所作的一项研究,自从引入禁令以来,西班牙被动吸烟者的数量已经下降了70%,但有四分之一的西班牙人仍然每天吸烟。
阿塔迪斯还列举了“非法销售大幅增加,主要由经济危机引起”的情况。
它说,走私烟销售占到了西班牙市场的12%。例如,6月3日,西班牙警方查获了52万盒走私烟,并拘捕了17人。
西班牙最大的卷烟公司阿塔迪斯,在2008年1月被帝国烟草公司收购。该公司是1999年法国的塞塔(Seita)公司和西班牙公司塔巴克莱拉(Tabacalera)公司合并而来的。
评论:
政府总是将提税作为控制吸烟的常用手段,想着既能降低吸烟率,又能增加政府税收。适当的提税或许能一举两得,然而,物极必反,过度的提税却可能既不利于烟民,又损害税收,而且伤害了合法烟草企业的利益,减少社会就业。阿塔迪斯公司的例子就是一个借鉴。西班牙在2012年四次上调烟草税,再加上经济危机和禁烟令的影响,烟民无法承担高价而转向走私卷烟,烟草公司也无法承受销量大幅下滑的压力而裁员节流,失业率提高,政府的税收减少也是必然的。这样的结果肯定是政府不愿意看到的,因此,提税并不是万全之策,而是一把双刃剑,政府在决定提税之前还需谨慎考虑。
Spain's top Cigarette Firm Takes Axe to Workforce
Spain's number one cigarette company Altadis, the producer of renowned cigarette brands Gauloises, Nobel and Fortuna, announced on Wednesday it will axe nearly 10 percent of its staff in Spain as cigarette sales slump in the face of no-smoking bans and a booming black market in the country.
Altadis, Western Europe's third largest cigarette manufacturer, will shed 114 of its 1,400 employees in Spain, mostly through early retirement, and the closure of a factory in the southern city of Cadiz, the company said in a statement.
The group's cigarette sales in Spain have slumped 40 percent in the past four months, Altadis said.
Spain's economy, the fourth largest in the eurozone, has been contracting since mid-2011 and retail sales fell 2.6 percent in April — the 34th straight monthly decline.
Altadis,an offshoot of British-based Imperial Tobacco, blamed "regulatory" pressure in Spain, where smoking has been banned in cafes and restaurants since January 1, 2011.
At the same time, the government has forced prices to rise.
The number of passive smokers in Spain has dropped by 70 percent since the ban was introduced but one in four Spaniards still smokes on a daily basis, according to a study by pharmaceutical company Pfizer.
Altadis also cited "a considerable increase in illegal sales, provoked largely by the situation of economic crisis".
Contraband cigarette sales accounted for 12 percent of the market in Spain, it said. On Monday, for example, Spanish police seized 520,000 packets of contraband cigarettes and arrested 17 people.
Altadis, the number one cigarette company in Spain, was taken over by Imperial Tobacco in January 2008. It was born in 1999 from the merger of France's Seita and Spanish firm Tabacalera. Enditem
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