British American Tobacco #ticker:BAT (BAT) East Africa plans to spend more than Sh1 billion ($10 million) to push oral nicotine pouches into the market once it gets the greenlight from public health authorities to resume domestic sale and distribution.
The maker and seller of tobacco and other nicotine products says construction of the oral nicotine pouches manufacturing plant in Nairobi cost 60 percent of the $25 million (Sh2.74 billion) allocated by London-based parent firm, BAT Plc, for the project.
