VISIT BY OR L C F BLACKMAN TO
IMPERIAL TOBACCO LIMITED, MONTREAL, CANADA
5-6 fleceniber 1933
The object of my visit was to get up-dated on the
organisation
and activities of the R&D Department.
I found that striking changes have occurred in the
last eighteen
rionths under the new Vice President. Dr P J Dunn
- aided very
significantly by the secondment from GRFUC of Dr S
R Massey as
Research Manager. There is no doubt now that the
previous Vice
President R&D left a messy organisation and a
poorly documented
Work Programme.
We have, in fact, just received Canada's Work
Programme for 1984-86
which runs to 185 pages. 11opefully, this document
will inspire
11511 and Australia to produce the equivalent -
which would then
mean that the five CAG Companies and (;R~UC would
all have a fully
docunented and circulated Programme.
The vast majority of the Canadian work is directly
related to
current or planned product and process neQds. Out
of a staff of
72 only 4 work on long term research - and in all
cases, the work
(which relates to biological activity and s,ioking
behaviour) is
fully integrated with them GR&DC Programine.
The total R&D budqet for 19,31 is S5 million, of
which 11.2 million
is the levy for the Group Research and
Oeveloprient Prograinne at
Southampton. I had a detailed discussion with thp.
FinAnce f)irector
on this and found that there Is no longer any
problem with the
Canadian Tax Authority.
It is likely that the HAD Department will shortly
assurne responsibility
for certain ele,nents of central ciaoufActuring,
eg secondary
manufactue of samples. There will also be limited
recruitment of
professional staff over the next 2-3 years.
At the prior request of Mr J-L Mercier I gave a
talk on the
medical aspects of smoking and health - riainly
high-lighting the
anomalies in the literature - to a meeting of
Oivision Heads from
Inasco and ITL.
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L C F BLACKMAN
9 December 1983
BATCo document for Province of British Columbia 9
November 1999