Changing directions

Premium products in vape and next gen category is no longer about just exclusive or expensive... Vapers tend to enjoy premium e-liquids and are more than willing to pay more for them because higher-quality ingredients lead...

Getting your vape range ready for party season

People will be looking at ‘affordable luxuries’ this festive season, and Luke Mckenna, content marketing administrator at Eco Vape, explains how retailers can win big with vapes. Christmas is always the busiest time of the year...

Help smokers quit this Stoptober

Stoptober, an initiative by the government to encourage smokers to give up on smoking, was launched a decade ago in 2012. The 28-day stop smoking challenge, beginning on 1 October, is underpinned by the research findings...

Pioneering a vape trail

Aman Uppal’s enthusiasm and innovation in the sector was rightly rewarded with the Vape Convenience Retailer of the Year award, and here he tells us how he has been educating himself about the category, and weeding...

Charting the growth trajectory

The constant demand, growing health awareness, and the need for safer vaping products have led to lots of innovation in the vape category. From providing varieties of flavour products to fulfilling vapers’ taste preferences to bringing...

E-liquids: Largest opportunity

According to the 2021 Smokefree GB report, the annual survey carried out for ASH by YouGov, tank systems remain as the most popular vape product, with 77 per cent of vapers reporting using them. However, for...

Tackling fakes and teens   

The UK vape industry is growing at a rapid speed and so are the challenges, from underage sales to illicit products to manufacturing environmentally friendly products, which are hindering the reputation of the vape industry. Sales...

Superheated: how hot is the market is for heat not burn?

Cengiz Cilengiroglu is Director of Commercial Operations for Philip Morris Limited (PML) in the UK and Ireland, and is in the perfect position to update us on the progress of the company’s revolutionary heat-not-burn tobacco product,...

Stock genuine as crackdown unearths huge hauls of illegal vapes

Recent raids by trading standards officers have led to seizure of  illegal vape products from stores across the country. In Livepool, during a recent test purchasing exercise across the city, officers were able to buy illegal...

Bouncing back: A retailer’s perspective

Shahid Ahmed, who runs Day Today Stane in the Scottish Town of Shotts, was perfectly placed to capitalise on lockdown. He tells Vape Business why his business is coming back even stronger Lockdown was really helpful...

Make your display work for you

From the moment a customer arrives in store, retailers can be showcasing their vape and next generation nicotine range. Tom Gockelen-Kozlowski speaks to the experts to learn more It’s a competitive world out there in the...

UK will miss 2030 smoke-free target, experts warn

A group of doctors, health experts and campaigners have criticised the government for not doing enough to meet its own smoke-free target by 2030 – and backed vape and other nicotine products to be an essential...

Column: Display is key to post-lockdown vape success

If stores are to capitalise on the post-lockdown opportunity to grow vape sales, a focus on display and merchandising is paramount, says Duncan Cunningham, corporate affairs director at Imperial Tobacco and Blu Display has a particularly...

Column: Winning with a new product

Vape Dinner Lady’s chief marketing officer John Taylor discusses the journey of a new product from identifying a trend to development to helping stores to boost sales Consumer habits have been ever-changing and adapting since March...