Euromonitor's Response
Almost immediately, Euromonitor International came out with a response to the accusations against their company. Listed below are direct quotes from their message to the public.
"Euromonitor remains a privately owned and autonomous business which has merely entered into two quite separate and distinct project contracts with FSFW and PMI Impact to provide market research services to those bodies."
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"The Passport Tobacco database, published on an annual basis, is the product of a transparent, multi-sourced comprehensive research programme on the ground in 100 global tobacco markets. It is widely used and respected throughout the tobacco stakeholder universe by clients ranging from tobacco brand owners, supply chain organisations, retailers, governments, regulators, public health and tobacco control."
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"Over the years, as a company, Euromonitor has declined to undertake several pieces of customised work, where we have had concerns that there was a danger these two criteria [absence of interference and inability to be used by a different organization might not be met."
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