British American Tobacco's vaping sales boom - but shares hit after buyback disappointment accreditation British American Tobacco's shares took a hit on Thursday after the company released its results and failed to announce renewed plans to buy back shares. BAT - whose brands include Dunhill, Peter Stuyvesant, Rothmans and Pall Mall – reported a 4% increase in its operating profits, but a decline of 1.3% in its diluted headline earnings per share for the year to end-December. This was primarily due to the impairment of its Russian and Belarusian businesses as well as restructuring charges and litigation. The company is still in negotiations to sell its Russian business, and hopes to seal the deal before the end of the year. It didn't want to give details about the prospective buyer. BAT's revenue increased by almost 8% to £27.7 billion. Revenue from its vaping and heated tobacco business grew by more than 40% to £2.8 billion. Brands like Vuse (+44%), glo (+27%) and Velo (+46%) saw strong revenue growth. BAT now expects this business to become profitable a year earlier than planned in 2024. But by late afternoon its share price was down by almost 3% at R641.99 on the JSE. After BAT bought back £2 billion in shares last year, no new plans to do the same were announced on Thursday. Reuters report that analysts were expecting a buyback, and this disappointed the market. South Africa BAT's results show that the company's market share (measured in sales volumes) in South Africa's legal market for cigarettes and tobacco heated products declined by 0.2 percentage points to 65.8% last year. Its position in South Africa remains dominant compared to most of its other markets - with its market share only higher in Denmark, Pakistan, Brazil, Chile and Bangladesh. Last month, BAT South Africa said falling cigarette sales mean it may have to cut another 200 jobs at its local operations. Since 2020, the company has retrenched more than 30% of its workforce, equating to around 500 positions. This is due to a 40% decline in its cigarette sales since the start of the pandemic, due in part to a boom in illegal sales. The tobacco producer believes that the illicit market now accounts for 70% of South Africa's total cigarette market. BAT confirmed that it expects to exist 30 markets in the coming year, and sell around 20 billion fewer cigarettes. The article has been updated to clarify the company's market share in South Africa's legal market for cigarettes and tobacco heated products. There are critical differences between projects and operations. It is possible that the case study project was treated as an operation instead of a project and therefore the shortcomings were inherent. Appraise the differences between projects and operations and demonstrate if the case study project could have avoided the delays and shortcomings if it was handled as a true project from the start.
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British American Tobacco's vaping sales boom - but shares hit after buyback disappointment
accreditation British American Tobacco's shares took a hit on Thursday after the company released its results and failed to announce renewed plans to buy back shares. BAT - whose brands include Dunhill, Peter Stuyvesant, Rothmans and Pall Mall – reported a 4% increase in its operating profits, but a decline of 1.3% in its diluted headline earnings per share for the year to end-December. This was primarily due to the impairment of its Russian and Belarusian businesses as well as restructuring charges and litigation. The company is still in negotiations to sell its Russian business, and hopes to seal the deal before the end of the year. It didn't want to give details about the prospective buyer. BAT's revenue increased by almost 8% to £27.7 billion. Revenue from its vaping and heated tobacco business grew by more than 40% to £2.8 billion.
Brands like Vuse (+44%), glo (+27%) and Velo (+46%) saw strong revenue growth. BAT now expects this business to become profitable a year earlier than planned in 2024.
But by late afternoon its share price was down by almost 3% at R641.99 on the JSE. After BAT bought back £2 billion in shares last year, no new plans to do the same were announced on Thursday. Reuters report that analysts were expecting a buyback, and this disappointed the market. South Africa BAT's results show that the company's market share (measured in sales volumes) in South Africa's legal market for cigarettes and tobacco heated products declined by 0.2 percentage points to 65.8% last year.
Its position in South Africa remains dominant compared to most of its other markets - with its market share only higher in
Denmark, Pakistan, Brazil, Chile and Bangladesh. Last month, BAT South Africa said falling cigarette sales mean it may have to cut another 200 jobs at its local operations. Since 2020, the company has retrenched more than 30% of its workforce, equating to around 500 positions. This is due to a 40% decline in its cigarette sales since the start of the pandemic, due in part to a boom in illegal sales. The tobacco producer believes that the illicit market now accounts for 70% of South Africa's total cigarette market. BAT confirmed that it expects to exist 30 markets in the coming year, and sell around 20 billion fewer cigarettes. The article has been updated to clarify the company's market share in South Africa's legal market for cigarettes and tobacco heated products.
There are critical differences between projects and operations. It is possible that the case study project was treated as an operation instead of a project and therefore the shortcomings were inherent. Appraise the differences between projects and operations and demonstrate if the case study project could have avoided the delays and shortcomings if it was handled as
a true project from the start.
Organizations frequently struggle with the problem of efficiently managing both projects and operations in today's fast-paced business environment. It is crucial to comprehend the important differences between these two core facets of business management. Using a hypothetical scenario within the context of British American Tobacco (BAT), we will discuss the key distinctions between projects and operations and explore how identifying and classifying initiatives appropriately can affect an organization's capacity to meet goals and minimize potential setbacks.
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