LAS VEGAS and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TAAT™ GLOBAL ALTERNATIVES INC. (CSE: TAAT) (OTCQX: TOBAF) (FRANKFURT: 2TP) (the “Company” or “TAAT™”) is pleased to announce that more than 43,000 packs of TAAT™ Original, Smooth, and Menthol have arrived in the United Kingdom and will be dispatched to the London warehouse of Green Global Earth (“GGE”) following a standard customs inspection. This shipment is part of more than CAD $1,200,000 worth of TAAT™ purchase orders for distribution in the United Kingdom and Ireland, markets in which GGE is the exclusive TAAT™ distributor.
In a press release dated August 20, 2021, the Company announced that Public Health England issued a Confirmation of Registration authorizing TAAT™ to be sold in Great Britain. The Company expects TAAT™ to benefit from several competitive advantages in the United Kingdom to include a lower price point than tobacco cigarettes and the “shelf appeal” of TAAT™’s colourful packaging in comparison to the “plain” packaging required by law for all tobacco products. Furthermore, based on Philip Morris International’s stated intention to stop selling tobacco cigarettes in the United Kingdom by 20301, it will become the first market in the world where brands such as Marlboro will not compete with TAAT™. The Company plans to expand its Beyond Nicotine™ initiative (announced in an April 23, 2021 press release) into the United Kingdom in support of market conditions that seek to mitigate the prevalence of nicotine products.
TAAT™ Chief Executive Officer Setti Coscarella commented, “Less than one year after the first retail launch of TAAT™ in Ohio, we could not be more enthusiastic about our first international expansion materializing shortly after we cleared the 1,000-store threshold in the United States last week2. GGE has proven to be an invaluable distribution partner for us in navigating the steps required to bring TAAT™ into the United Kingdom and Ireland. In addition to our advantages with respect to price and packaging in the United Kingdom, we also believe TAAT™ Menthol can be extremely appealing to smokers of legal age in the U.K. who preferred mentholated tobacco cigarettes before they were banned nationwide last year3. All three varieties of TAAT™ will soon be hitting store shelves in both the United Kingdom and Ireland in what we believe will be among the first of many launches in new global markets.”
Sources
3 - https://www.acs.org.uk/advice/menthol-ban
On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Company,
TAAT™ GLOBAL ALTERNATIVES INC.
“Setti Coscarella”
Setti Coscarella, CEO and Director
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TAAT™ Investor Relations
1-833-TAAT-USA (1-833-822-8872)
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About TAAT™ Global Alternatives Inc.
The Company has developed TAAT™, which is a tobacco-free and nicotine-free alternative to traditional cigarettes offered in "Original", "Smooth", and "Menthol" varieties. TAAT™'s base material is Beyond Tobacco™, a proprietary blend which undergoes a patent-pending refinement technique causing its scent and taste to resemble tobacco. Under executive leadership with "Big Tobacco" pedigree, TAAT™ was launched first in the United States in Q4 2020 as the Company seeks to position itself in the $814 billion1 global tobacco industry.
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References
1 British American Tobacco - The Global Market
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